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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This blog is mothballed
- My new blog can be found here
I've got "Hooked up on blogs" for a good few of my contacts...
Posted by: Antony Mayfield | June 17, 2007 at 05:50 PM
Yeah I tend to use "Hooked up online"
Posted by: Euan | June 17, 2007 at 07:58 PM
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.
Posted by: Flemming Funch | June 17, 2007 at 08:06 PM
I need a category for "Met due to an erroneous friend request on Facebook."
It has become an Ourobouros! Recursion Alert! Recursion Alert!
Posted by: Chris Corrigan | June 18, 2007 at 12:34 AM
The kids mean something different by "hooked up".
Posted by: Britta | June 18, 2007 at 01:22 AM
I wondered Britta but may be a US/UK difference.
Posted by: Euan | June 18, 2007 at 06:23 AM
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.
;-)
Posted by: Jon Husband | June 18, 2007 at 04:55 PM
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.
Posted by: Chris Corrigan | June 18, 2007 at 06:42 PM
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.
Posted by: amba | June 21, 2007 at 11:27 PM
You could always put:
From an organization or team -> Internet -- playing tribes.
Posted by: Stephen Samuel | September 24, 2007 at 10:09 PM