Comments on: The Facebook “Bug.” Not Really.

By: Charity

Charity — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:18:18 +0000

I put that I was married to my husband and it says he has to confirm. So he put he was married to me and it said I had to confirm. I believe I am supposed to get an email from Facebook so that I can confirm it but neither of us ever got that email. I tried to redo it and it just keeps saying I have a confirmation pending. How do I get my husbands name on for who I am married to????

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:34:18 +0000

Sweet. AJAX is beautiful.

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:49:40 +0000

Will Facebook be bought? Is this for real?
http://www.inte...ook-puts-s.html

I’d like to see Yahoo buy Facebook? Or has I’ve heard the other day, Yahoo get bought by Google?

By: thom

thom — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:01:27 +0000

I have to agree with people here. What is it with techcrunch and facebook? does everybody here have stock in it?

By: Richard MacManus

Richard MacManus — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:18:00 +0000

Just to note that I posted on the Facebook ajax pop-ups last week, and some commenters pointed out that Facebook still gets page views from them: "A background AJAX request is still regarded as a page view by the webserver - all a page view is is a browser requesting a file from the server. In the background or not, makes no diffrence".

By: Jay (living in First Life)

Jay (living in First Life) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:25:19 +0000

Usually Duncan Riley has these kind of lame-o posts.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:23:53 +0000

Lamest. Post. Ever. So lame I had to check twice to make sure Nick didn’t post it.

By: LaDawn

LaDawn — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:54:00 +0000

As a new Facebook users, I got a wee bit confused…when I tried to add my husband…still haven’t gotten it right. Have done the whole profile married to thing and it still ain’t working. I’m not an idiot I swear! And then this skip thingy disappeared….and I thought I’d done something wrong. Grrrr, have they not heard of regression testing?

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:42:38 +0000

Hey man, get a life!

Get out a bit, meet some ppl.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:39:56 +0000

OMG Techcrunch cannot go a week without posting about Facebook! Now it’s becoming the Facebook help forum. PLEASE STOP!

By: Dane

Dane — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:18:37 +0000

It really does make the whole adda friend function easier and much more effecient tho. It came as a welcome surprise to me!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:06:16 +0000

The problem with this feature is the fact that you have to confirm it with the other person. People don’t want to confirm because it shows their opinion of that person, albeit subtle. Also, no one feels like trying to write something meaningful, especially if it is an old friend with lots of history. The activation cost is a bit too high.

The feature would be way more effective if they removed the confirmation. Think about it. Does it really matter that my friend Dave confirmed that I met him at a beach party? Also, you’d be able to write stories that they wouldn’t approve, but they’d be useful only to you.

Another thing facebook hasn’t done is let you group your friends based on your own criteria. Brilliant! That way I can make one called “programmers” and “soccer team” and maybe “babes” if I want to. They do have groups but they’re based on what you’ve put in when you first friend them. Which goes back to what I said before.

By: jackson

jackson — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:51:46 +0000

facebook is ok but peekamo….

By: Kobe

Kobe — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:26:08 +0000

Sorry Matt, some of us late comers are now joining the bandwagon. I signed up for hi5 last week. This week, it will be facebook.

By: Antje Wilsch

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:18:10 +0000

@matt, me too… so tired of it

By: matt

matt — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:58:31 +0000

Every time you post about Facebook I die a little more inside.

By: Peter C

Peter C — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:49:39 +0000

I think this is the most underrated feature on Facebook (also the most underutilized). Most people want to get through this because it’s annoying. In your case you have too many friends (exception rather than rule). But knowing how people are connected is very valuable information and I’m surprised Facebook doesn’t leverage that even better. Given the little overhead it takes to define a connection and the power/utilization one can get from it, I think it’s totally worth taking the time to do it.

By: BeingParents

BeingParents — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:34:27 +0000

Less is more.

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:33:36 +0000

It is not bad.
Orkut is the bad did u see it?

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:23:40 +0000

I don’t know why people think there are limited options. Choose “Met Randomly” and type whatever you want.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:09:52 +0000

I’m kind of a big deal (too).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:41:24 +0000

Oh, yeah?! I have 2000 friends!

By: N.Cauldwell

N.Cauldwell — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:04:13 +0000

Mike – how does the News Feed algorithm fair now that you have SO many Facebook friends? Is much of it relevant? Have you had to tinker with the News Feed mixing desk much?

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:36:24 +0000

Uh… it’s pretty unlikely that you met someone by being married to them – except, of course, in the case of an arranged marriage.

To show you’re married, go to Profile/edit, set your Relationship Status to “Married”, and the usual friend-name autocomplete box will appear, for you to pick the poor unfortunately person…

By: Roj Niyogi

Roj Niyogi — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:13:02 +0000

I have yet to find out how to indicate that you are married to somebody that added you. Which option and sub-option do you use?