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Wow, Facebook just got a LOT more stalkeriffic!

...okay, fine, I'll try to act like a "real blog" and link to stuff I found on Google.

Wow, Facebook just got a LOT more stalkeriffic! And some random people agree with me!

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OMG!

::reads about how one person went from being "single" to "in a relationship," and another joined a group called "If You Have Shaggy Hair and are a Little Dirty, I Probably Want To Fuck You"::

It's like FaceBook has become the town gossip!

Yeah, next time I edit my profile, I'm removing my relationship status and never adding it back in again. I don't mind being public about it, but for my entire list of friends to know the second I end up in a relationship is just a bit much.

There really ought to be a way to opt out of it...

Do they have an admin console?

I'll check once I'm not on dial-up. ::waits impatiently for Comcast to come tomorrow::

Do I detect snarkiness?

What's interesting to me is that certain aspects of Friendster's "NewsFeed/MiniFeed" seem to mirror some of the capabilities of ESN ("be notified when friends add new userpics," anybody?)

Granted, I don't think LJ's implementation is nearly as intrusive, since they're not asking for the sorts of intimate details Facebook assumes you want to provide. But maybe that's also because it also provides a new stream of immediate amusement for me - "hey, neat icon, wonder where she got it from, can i use it?"

And there are certain things that ESN doesn't let you subscribe to that you could figure out anyway if you poke around enough (and know where to poke). ("

desh has posted a new private entry!" Or, more realistically, "Some random person you're not friends with just [un]friended

desh!")

Some of the "missing" things on LJ are because they're just not that thorough yet, but some I bet are deliberate. Because LJ developers already know what Facebook devs will probably learn from user feedback over the next few days: there's a key difference between available data and easily available/aggregatable data. Moving something from the former category to the latter requires as much careful consideration as making the data available in the first place does.

Yep. *g*

Whoa. Totally stalkeriffic!

I feel like I invented that word 4 years ago when I was at Kutz and a friend's ex BF still drove all the way out to Warwick NY to visit her. He was known then as "_____'s stalkeriffic ex."

my favorite adjective of the day describing facebook: stalkier

(somehow theyre all variants on stalker)

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