Hiding Facebook’s App Ticker
Facebook has rolled yet another obnoxious feature with no user option to disable it—the App Ticker. Apparently, some folks have seen it for a week or so now, but it only just showed up on my profile today. I’ve been using the wonderful Facebook Fixer script for the Greasemonkey addon to tweak the way my [...]
Should You Quit Facebook?
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook – Facebook – Gizmodo. Facebook’s privacy problems are no secret by now. It seems like the powers behind the social networking platform are always changing things, modifying user privacy settings without ever really notifying their users about the changes (and making it fairly difficult and confusing to change [...]
One Million
I love how every time I turn around, there’s a new “1,000,000 for/against [some random cause].” The latest I’ve seen is “1,000,000 against the new Facebook layout1.” Why is one million always the magic number for these groups? In just about every case I’ve seen, one million isn’t even a majority number. For instance, in [...]
Lessons In Playing Better Chess
I was one of those chess geeks in high school that people like to make jokes about. We would meet once a week as a team for a little instruction and to scrimmage for an hour or two, and we went to half a dozen tournaments a year to compare brains with other chess enthusiasts. [...]
Shifting Seas
The problem with the beta version of Facebook 2.0 (3.0?) is that the site’s behavior changes at least once an hour so that you think something’s broken until you realize that the coding gurus simply toggled a feature. It’s just a little bit maddening at times.
Public Secret
Ok, this is amusing. I just noticed on my Facebook news feed that someone joined a group called “I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head.” What’s amusing about this is that once you join a group, it shows up in your profile, where everyone can see it. HaHAH, [...]
Reclaimer Images
A little Reclaimer fun I’ve had in Photoshop today: I’ve been toying with the idea of taking advantage of the new Facebook feature of pages, and I whipped up this little screenshot with title and URL for that purpose. A smaller version of the above, with the URL moved, for use as either linkto button [...]
Facebook versus MySpace
I’ve been running Facebook and MySpace side-by-side for a couple of weeks now. I’d created a MySpace profile primarily because it was the only method available for me to get back into contact with some of my friends from high school who I haven’t spoken to in ten years. Of course, long-time readers of this [...]
