Comments on: Things I’ve learned on facebook

By: Mopar

Mopar — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:56:08 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:35:23 +0000

if ya wanna be REALLY paranoid clingers just think how easy it makes .gov data mining.

Gee, who did this wacky guy hang with? Lets go keep an eye on them too.

By: Breda

Breda — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:44:16 +0000

hmm…someone must have talked you into it.

*blinks innocently*

By: Borepatch

Borepatch — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:07:56 +0000

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By: mike hollihan

mike hollihan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:00:34 +0000

I don’t play MW either, nor Farmville. Like some of the others, I don’t trust any of the apps on FB. At all.

By: Nylarthotep

Nylarthotep — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:40:46 +0000

I’m guessing mafia wars is a game, but I’ve never heard of it. I guess I’m not missing much.

I am doing my best to be as anti-technology as possible. I’d not carry a cell phone if my work didn’t require me to carry one. (But it doesn’t work all the time. For some reason the radio keeps shutting off.)

I’m avoiding Face book like the plague. I made the mistake of joining LinkedIn and found that is a pain in the ass as well.

By: Mjolnir

Mjolnir — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:08:43 +0000

Yeah, ditto on the Mafia wars thing.

By: Larry Correia

Larry Correia — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:12:09 +0000

Personally I like it. I’m coming at it from a little different angle though. As a novelist it gives me a good way to keep up with fans, which helps me sell books, which makes it so that I can purchase the important things, like ammunition or bacon.

I don’t play any of the games. I don’t have time.

By: D.W. Drang

D.W. Drang — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:18:43 +0000

I am the only person on Earth who doesn�t play Mafia Wars.
Patently, untrue, since I never heard of the thing.

Then again, I think Mrs. Drang and I are the only people on earth who don’t use Spacebook or MyFace. And, for all I know, Mrs. Drang does so secretly. We were at her family reunion earlier this month, and I suggested that the clan should start a blog to keep track of who’s doing what, when and where events are, etc., thinking Blogger lets you have a private blog with up to 100 users…
Her cousins started exchanging SpaceFace pages…

By: Jim W

Jim W — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:16:44 +0000

Block All Invites From This Application is your friend.

99 percent of these apps are just email harvesters.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:07:54 +0000

I’d rather have a couple extra pussies sitting around then a few extra bitches Alchemyst.

Mafia wars…as if watching them in action every day in DC weren’t time consuming enough.

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:33:14 +0000

I am the only person on Earth who doesn�t play Mafia Wars.
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No, you’re not… And that goofy-assed Farm Town thing?? My God, how can so-called adults be so mindless??

By: ATLien

ATLien — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:20:37 +0000

Mikee, FB’s been around longer than you realize. It didn’t get popular til MySpace turned into a digital ghetto of people’s moms.

By: Madrocketscientist

Madrocketscientist — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:03:48 +0000

+1 of Mafia Wars, very annoying game

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:27:54 +0000

Once I learned the “Block this application” command, Facebook became tolerable.

By: Mikee

Mikee — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:56:03 +0000

I am old enough to realize that if I wait long enough, my suits and ties will be in style again, and the most popular fad will be history.

Two words: Pet rocks.

By: Xspectre8

Xspectre8 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:51:58 +0000

When I was initiated to FB leaning to block “Mafia Wars” app was almost instantaneous. That sort of flies in the face of the gunnie + violent game stereotype, eh?

By: Rustmeister

Rustmeister — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:51:27 +0000

No problem, Unc. I’ll send you an invite. =P

By: Alchemyst

Alchemyst — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:43:52 +0000

Most of us have an idea of when the U.S. started it’s downward spiral into the morass we’re in today. I however, happen to know the true skinny. It was when, a few years back the number of cats overtook the number of dogs as pets. Just remember folks if you like cats then you’re part of the problem.

By: Molon Labe

Molon Labe — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:10:43 +0000

I considered signing up for Facebook after my wife got an account. I quickly passed on the notion after realizing that the only people who post on there are teachers with nothing to do during the summer except tell everyone that they are going to soccer games, or jilted ex-high school classmates who want to see if their nemesis ever got the karma they deserved.

However, when my wife is on, i can’t help but to use her account to play that “Bejewled” game. Freakin’ addicting.

By: RW

RW — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:38:12 +0000

+1 more on MW.

Also, I swear I must hit the “ignore” or “hide” buttons more than any person on the planet, because I do several times each instance I log in, which is about 3 times per week, or every eleven-thousandth irrelevant entry by the random too-much-time-on-their-hands housewife/mom. Yeah, i typed that; you gals need to get lives.

By: Bitter

Bitter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:13:56 +0000

Another on the Mafia Wars.

By: Jay G.

Jay G. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:13:51 +0000

+1 on the mafia wars. And, as you know my last name from FaceBook, I happen to be of the Eye-talian persuasion.

I wonder if I could make a humongous pain in the ass out of myself and lobby FB to drop MW on the basis that it’s offensive to Italian Americans and perpetuates the stereotype of all Italians as mobsters?

Nah. I’ll just arrange to have their kneecaps broken by Gino Three Fingers…

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:46:07 +0000

+1 on the Mafia Wars

By: karrde

karrde — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:20:56 +0000

Make that two of us on the Mafia Wars things.

But I deeply distrust programs that use your FaceBook account, and have the ability to rifle through it for information.

(I don’t know whether most users notice, but a lot of games/quizzes are outside programs using FB’s toolkit, and they need access to your personal information to run properly…It’s one thing to ask whether you can trust FB not to misuse your personal information. It’s another thing to trust 100 different third-party programs not to misuse FB’s collection of personal information.)