I Think I Have a Problem

I love logging into Facebook and seeing the red notification symbol pop up in the bottom of my screen. Right before I open the notifications window, I try to predict what it’s going to tell me. It’s like a little game. But I think I’m addicted. I am disappointed when I log in and nothing new is waiting for me.

It’s not official until . . .

Dating someone?  Breaking up?  Engaged?  It’s not official until you update your facebook status to reflect the change.

P.S.  If you are planning on doing any of the above mentioned items, make sure you actually tell the person first before changing your relationship status.  Everyone should know AFTER your significant other.

Math.ceil(), ever hear of it?

My facebook fantasy football application displays the league stats on the application homepage. For something as trivial as fantasy football, I think I could deal with 1 decimal place precision, perhaps even just rounded integers, instead of 13 decimal places. This is just ridiculous:

In case you aren’t familiar with the ceiling function, here’s the link

How to Stop Facebook Email Spam

Tired of logging into your mail client to see something like this?

Me too. Usually I’ve already seen the new wall post or comment on my status before I check my mail, and the few times I haven’t, I feel like the anticipation of logging in to Facebook to see what’s new has been ruined. Luckily, Facebook allows you to change your email settings.

In the new facebook, simply click the ‘Settings’ link in the top navigation and then select the ‘Notifications’ tab. Here you can set your email preference on everything from being notified when someone pokes you to when someone you may know joins Facebook. I currently have 45 options that can email me (each application you use has it’s own settings as well, but usually only 1 per application).

As of 9/19/08, I will receive 0 notification emails.

A/S/L

Whatever happened to A/S/L? I guess Chris Hansen may have had something to do with the downturn in ‘13/f/TX’ posting in chat rooms. Perhaps the decline of AOL as the predominate service provider had something to do with it? Has myspace, facebook, and twitter replaced the conventional chat room? Or maybe a/s/l still exists and I haven’t seen it because of my lack of participation inside a chat room in the last 10 years.

Oh, and what about “a/s/l/ with pic” – classic.

An Internet Tutorial – How to print a picture

While browsing a facebook photo gallery I ran across a comment that reminded me of the wide range of proficiencies in today’s internet user. The comment read “Can you email me this picture so I can print it?” For some, this may seem like a perfectly normal request. However, this task can be done without any type of email being sent.

Directions for saving an image from a webpage

1. Right-click the mouse over the image
2. A menu will appear. The options will vary from browser to browser, but you want to select Save Picture As from the menu.
   
3. Select a location and name the picture, just like saving a document

Now you have the picture saved locally on your computer and can do what you want with it.

As a word of warning – some sites like Facebook will compress images upon upload to save on file size. This may cause the photo quality to be less than that of the original photo. In that case, or in the case where you want to print a 24″x36″ portrait, you may want the original. I’m 95% certain that’s not the reason this user was asking for the picture via email.

Ignore Facebook Addicts

Tired of a select few “super-users” of Facebook always cluttering up your News Feed? Well, Facebook is giving you the option to limit the amount of vampire bites and political posts you have to see from those users who are overly active on the social site.

All you have to do is tell Facebook you want to see less of this person by clicking the options button. Goodbye annoying over-posters.

Stati or Statuses

With the popularization of microblogging, aka twittering, aka updating a status on facebook, aka a one line blurb about what you are doing at that very moment, I have to ask the question. When referring to a set of status updates, is the group consider stati or statuses?

I know that grammatically, statuses is correct. But it seems like an odd word. I guess it’s like any other word that ends in “us”, like hippopotamus or octopus. Making these words plural sounds odd, but what can you do.

Facebook Chat

Facebook’s new chat is getting on my nerves. If the page has not fully loaded and you attempt to click to see who’s online, you get JS errors until the page is finished loading. This wouldn’t be as frustrating if every page in FB didn’t take 5 seconds to load.

Happy New Year

Welcome to 2008. I don’t have much to complain about as I just got back to work from 2 stress-free weeks of vacation. I’m hoping that good attitude carries over for awhile, but I’m sure there will be some realizations to write about shortly. I had something trivial to post this morning about Facebook, but it’s more of a warning and found someone else has already posted it, so I thought I’d give him/her some credit: www.topofthemountains.net/2008/01/02/a-facebook-virus-of-sorts/