Facebook is broken

[yanpa]

Every few days I get a plaintive missive from Zuckerberg asking if I know a bunch of names I vaguely recall from past decades but probably wouldn't recognize the owner if we passed on the street... but recently I think their algorithm has jumped the shark and is coming up with names which sound like they've been pulled out of a random generator.

No, I do not know "Silvana SecretBatgirl".

[Russell]

Sorry, but could someone explain to me what Facebook is?!?

[yanpa]

It's sort of a book of faces, but online. More something for the older generation, the hip youngsters are all into swapping Vines on Line or something, so I hear.

Meanwhiled, from Inked-in (the social network for tattooed people), it seems I share a mutual connection with a "Seasoned digital contents and online advertising professional", whatever that is.

[legion]

Sorry, but could someone explain to me what Facebook is?!?

It was predicted by Monty Python

[Coligny]

Every few days I get a plaintive missive from Zuckerberg asking if I know a bunch of names I vaguely recall from past decades but probably wouldn't recognize the owner if we passed on the street... but recently I think their algorithm has jumped the shark and is coming up with names which sound like they've been pulled out of a random generator.

No, I do not know "Silvana SecretBatgirl".

Consider yourself lucky, these days I'm supposed to befriend Apu's whole family (all miliunz of them), Pakis and a bunch of cave dwellers from Dirkastan...

[Grumpy Gramps]

Wasn't there a theory that everyone is related to everything by three degrees of separation or some such? So you might as well know anyone, which saves Fecebook the cost and hassle of cranking their database for you.

The feature can be tunred off, in case you were not aware..

[Coligny]

The feature can be tunred off, in case you were not aware..

And I'm pretty sure there is a way to set the clock on the rice cooker. But in both case I use them so little that it aint worth the hassle...

[Grumpy Gramps]

I use them so little that it aint worth the hassle...

Yes, but no matter how much or little I use it, I don't care for a hundred e-mails a day telleing me about the exciting and wonderful things that happen, while I am not there and whose acquaintance's acquaintance I have yet to befriend

[Coligny]

I remember the days in the 90' when every email received was like christmass...

Unlike today where my inbox has 1558 unread items... That are not even spam... But stuff i'm actually supposed to read/care aboot...

[BigInJapan]

I remember the days in the 90' when every email received was like christmass...

Yikes, that reminds me - this year will be my 20th year of e-mail in Japan (I worked at a software company/ISP in '94, and yes, getting an e-mail was a pretty rare occurrence).