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Old 08-14-2012, 05:53 AM   #101
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I worry that facebook is going to get me ONTO watch lists.

I use it largely to keep up with the worldwide parkour community - a function it handles beautifully, btw. But I became close friends with some practitioners in India, who knew people in surrounding areas who also did parkour, and it kind of spread. Some people started messaging me in a combination of Arabic and broken English, and some of their questions have suggested that they think I'm...I dunno. Something I'm not, I think. Stuff like:

"Are you high up in prty?"

I answered:

"?"

To which the reply was:

"Very good."

That left me wondering if I'd just been asked if I was high up in the Party. And realizing my question mark was taken as an answer rather than a request for clarification. It makes me a little uneasy and yet amused, somehow.

I do get stupid memes in my newsfeed...a few actually make me laugh. And I'm in the midst of a Pokepocalypse. I made the mistake of pointing out that the whole "poke" feature was a never-ending cycle, and suggesting we needed some sort of etiquette for it, which of course meant EVERYONE had to poke me relentlessly. Someone needs to invent an app that immediately pokes back and name it "Tag Back," or something.

But...yeah. I like facebook, with all its bizarre twists. I'm able to keep up with friends and practitioners from around the world, organize real-life meetings and events (and get invited to same) and get into fairly intense private chats with people ranging from my mother to my parkour idols. And I get to laugh at the stupid crap people post...when I'm not facepalming over same.
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Old 08-14-2012, 08:24 AM   #102
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I worry that facebook is going to get me ONTO watch lists.
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ESPECIALLY if you post this twice!
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I do get stupid memes in my newsfeed...a few actually make me laugh. And I'm in the midst of a Pokepocalypse. I made the mistake of pointing out that the whole "poke" feature was a never-ending cycle, and suggesting we needed some sort of etiquette for it, which of course meant EVERYONE had to poke me relentlessly. Someone needs to invent an app that immediately pokes back and name it "Tag Back," or something.
I think there's something that can do that for you (automate a poke-back):

http://ifttt.com/

I do wonder, if two people do that exact thing, if one then pokes the other, is it smart enough to recognize it's in a loop and stop after one cycle, or will their timeline thingies suddenly fill up with thousands of pokes?

I'm thinking lots of if this then thats.

Oh, I see it would only check for a new poke every 15 minutes, unless it has a Quick Trigger, then it happens immediately. "Hey, I hadn't even let up on the mouse button, and she already poked me back!"

More seriously, I heard this story last night - it will scare the <insert expletive here> out of you:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi...71/the-convert
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Old 08-14-2012, 03:59 PM   #103
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Debatable.

That depends on the website.
well, yeah, but most people have websites that don't get as many hits as facebook does.

If you post your blog entries on your facebook page, there will be people who will look at it who would not have seen it otherwise. I blog for the DVD rental shop where I work, and nearly half the hits come from facebook. The rest are people googling the shop. But the facebook hits are from people who might not have known about the shop before.
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Old 08-14-2012, 07:49 PM   #104
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ESPECIALLY if you post this twice!

I think there's something that can do that for you (automate a poke-back):

http://ifttt.com/
That looks awesome, but I'm leery of signing in to my facebook through an outside account like that. Have you tried it?

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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi...71/the-convert
Yeah, I've been hearing about this sort of thing.
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Old 08-14-2012, 09:17 PM   #105
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That looks awesome, but I'm leery of signing in to my facebook through an outside account like that. Have you tried it?
I haven't tried it, I've barely heard about it, but you're right, apparently to use that service you have to let it access your Facebook account or the account of whatever other service you're using it with. That could theoretically be a problem, but there's lots of third-party services like that which work just fine, such as Tweetdeck. I have the impression they're vetted by the services they use, and if they do something they shouldn't they'll stop working really quick.
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