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Facebook omission

Jon Udell points out something that has been bugging me for a while. Despite being all about online networking Facebook doesn't have "Met on the web" as one of the options as to how you know someone

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I've got "Hooked up on blogs" for a good few of my contacts...

Yeah I tend to use "Hooked up online"

Actually that's what kept me from even looking at Facebook for a long time. I answered friend requests, but none of those options ever seemed to fit. Everybody became "met randomly", and I remained convinced that Facebook probably wasn't for my kind of people, so I never actually logged in.

I need a category for "Met due to an erroneous friend request on Facebook."

It has become an Ourobouros! Recursion Alert! Recursion Alert!

The kids mean something different by "hooked up".

I wondered Britta but may be a US/UK difference.

As Britta notes, I was surprised to learn that we had "hooked up". For those under 35 or so in North America, I think it means we slept together on a Friday or Saturday night without entering a longer-term relationship.

;-)

Perhaps to make it more anglo explicit, the menu should detect your proxy server and offer you "Shagged" if you live east of the Atlantic Ocean.

Yes!! I was flabbergasted the first time somebody invited me (was it you, perhaps?) and I was unable to say "Met online." I wrote to them with lots of exclamation points!!!!!! and question marks??????, and they wrote back and said, oh yeah, we'll get around to that at some point. WTF?

My name's in a few of them, but so far I don't use any of them. I don't have time; I'm busy enough an perfectly happy with blogs, e-mail, and RSS.

You could always put:
From an organization or team -> Internet -- playing tribes.

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