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# Excellente
I've been playing with friends lists all weekend

I now have 'London', 'Walsall', 'Brighton', 'Buenos Aires', 'Transfans', 'B3ta' and 'Ladies'

It's like the temazepam of the Interwebs
(, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:13, archived)
# I have no idea what I've got.
Is it just me or is facebook quite hard to get used to? Not that I've ever really tried.
(, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:15, archived)
# dunno
I'm kinda reliant on it for keeping in touch with the UK as most of my friends are on there...I'll probably use it less once I return home. It is kinda fun though.

Me and one of my friends have started a game to tell someone's "Stupidity Score" simply by counting the number of application icons underneath their profile picture...mine is 12 (including the 2 I am developing), while I know people with 80+ scores...simply incredible.
(, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:20, archived)
# It confuses the hell out of me.
(, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:23, archived)
# Few simple rules:
1) Most of the applications are pure spam. Few have any real value, and some are a royal pain in the arse - see 2)

2) Avoid Superwall, Funwall and their heinous brethren like the plague. They allow other users to post stuff to your profile, which will invariably include chain letters, novelty porn, goatse and everything else glasscock. They make your profile look like a first-year student's inbox and it's the quickest way to tell visitors to your profile "I AM A COMPLETE IDIOT".

3) Avoid putting personal information like your full birthday on your profile. The quickest way to identity theft is telling everyone on the internet your details.

4) Everyone uses their HappyToast zombie pic on their profile at some point. But you knew that already :)
(, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:31, archived)
# ^this, but
re: 3) - You can restrict info to friends. So long as you keep to this rule:

5) Only friend people that you have met in meatspace (IRL).

As for the application-spam stuff, they try dirty tricks like : "Don't let your friend down by not adding this!" when someone clicks on the, I dunno, "Ask all the people on my list about this stupid shit!!" button.
(, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:37, archived)
# yes to 5)
for sure

though I have a couple of fb-friends I've only met online, I know them sufficiently well to bend the rule.

The applications I'm working on atm will be 100% spam-free. Yay.
(, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:47, archived)