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- macfan93, on 06/17/2009, -0/+59My Dad fake divorced my mom on facebook because he thought it would be funny. When nobody commented on it, he got sad because he realized he has no friends.
At least someone didn't "like" it. - thezoner, on 06/16/2009, -1/+47He's an IT guy and thought deleting it would make it all go away??
- readacook, on 06/17/2009, -1/+46A friend of mine changes her status to 'Single' every time she fights with her boyfriend just to upset him. What the hell is wrong with people?
- borez, on 06/17/2009, -2/+39Of course he has no friends, he gave up that right the day he got married.
- taylorhayward, on 06/17/2009, -0/+34Ah, it seems like only a year ago my ex-girlfriend was emailing all the friends I had since I was a kid and telling them lies about me on the way out the door. Oh the memories...
- SifuMoKung, on 06/17/2009, -1/+30Maybe by "IT guy" they meant "Geek Squad" employee.
- chuckDontSurf, on 06/17/2009, -0/+23Immaturity?
- SurrealDream, on 06/17/2009, -0/+19Here I was all happy, reading about a silly girl with tattoos on her face, eagerly awaiting the release of iphone OS3 and anticipating seeing "The Hangover" tonight, and then you throw that out there. That's sad :(
- sockpuppets, on 06/17/2009, -0/+17My God, she bent your wookie?
- inactive, on 06/17/2009, -0/+17Nothing. It used to be that you could just get mad and then get over it eventually and no one would know about all your problems. Now every second of your life has to be blogged or tweeted or what the hell ever.
- borez, on 06/17/2009, -1/+16Facebook can be more dangerous then people actually realise...No doubt.
- Hermiod, on 06/17/2009, -1/+15You should have sued her.
- readacook, on 06/17/2009, -0/+14You mean 'defamation'?
- supertom, on 06/17/2009, -0/+13So I'm guessing your friend is about 15-16 years old?
- Fleagleman, on 06/17/2009, -0/+11This just in:
People are effing morons. - borez, on 06/17/2009, -4/+15Deformation of character lawsuit... right there, with evidence.
- orvtech, on 06/17/2009, -0/+10only if you:
rm -Rf `find . | grep -i marriage` - asnider, on 06/17/2009, -0/+9"Look, Honey, I posted it on Digg! It must be true! I wasn't breaking up with you or calling my exes!"
- logstaa, on 06/17/2009, -2/+11"Dear Baby, welcome to Dumpsville. Population: You"
- EllisSpice, on 06/17/2009, -3/+9I like the fact it said 'British slang', like we speak a different language, you chavvy slags!
- doublsh0t, on 06/17/2009, -0/+6A guy I know posted mildly lewd photos of his girlfriend who had recently broken up with him. She contacted fbook and they took it down and suspended his account.
- readacook, on 06/17/2009, -0/+523 :(
- WNW3, on 06/17/2009, -0/+5HEY-OOOH!
- lossless22, on 06/17/2009, -0/+4Facebook == Lifesuck
On another note, why is this article dated for next week? >.>
"Facebook and Divorce: Airing the Dirty Laundry
By Belinda Luscombe Monday, Jun. 22, 2009" - strykker, on 06/17/2009, -0/+4its dated in the future because its going to be in the Times edition printed for 6/22/09
- borez, on 06/17/2009, -0/+4@readacook: Yeah that too.
- bigteebo, on 06/17/2009, -1/+5Here's a great idea: don't use social networking sites to brag about how happy you are with your significant other. A) nobody cares B) there's going to be some fallout once the fairy tale ends. Better yet, don't bring up issues in a relationship for everyone to read about, as you are only getting one side of the story, and the SO might not even get a chance to respond.
- cam0man, on 06/17/2009, -1/+5sue her? or just move on with your life not caring what some bitch has to say about you....
- johnnyblazepw, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3except once you reach that age, more than likely a number of friends will be out of state and social networking just makes it easy to keep in touch. Good luck though, it seems to me that it will only get harder to quit altogether.
- pedronym, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3@asnider
You sneaky bastard! You just ruined his plan! - snogye, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3Sounds like this keeps people more honest in court.
- thetenthlisten, on 06/17/2009, -1/+4I'm so glad I don't have a facebook. social networking is so 2005.
- WNW3, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3I'm pretty sure we do.
- ml4rocky, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2I must figure out Facebook and all the real rules in a hurry. Any suggestions about the best article to read or should I just stumble along intuitively? HELP! I've been too busy making fun of it to pay any real attention to what one has to do there.
- Disc2day, on 06/17/2009, -1/+3There are always funny stories about facebook. It's scary, yet funny. Makes me wonder what have I been putting up on my account will ultimately bite me in the butt. I hope not. It's still a fun way of socializing. Oh yeah, too bad for the couple :-)
- sh0x, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2MySpace has on a couple of occasions dropped friends for no reason. I dropped off my girlfriend's MySpace and she called me all hurtful and asked me if I was breaking up with her. She didn't know me better at the time than to break up with her in such a stupid, sideways way.
On a couple of occasions, my Blackberry would dig up phone numbers from ex-girlfriends that I had deleted, but the numbers resurfaced somehow. My girlfriend at the time (different one) saw them and thought I was still in touch with them.
Technology seems to do very little to strengthen already-fragile human relationships. Technology is outstripping our human capability to avoid drawing conclusions based on the information we glean from it. And our ability to use it in a commonly courteous manner. - inactive, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2To me this seems like a common sense thing. I have a Facebook account, and I notice that the people who get the most attention are the ones who leave everything up on the News feed for everyone to see (Person X is now single *broken heart*). Delete such "news" items and then it is only evident to others if they're observant enough to note the change in your profile.
- TheShad0w, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Its not that difficult people. Just don't plaster your personal lives all over the internet. If you don't want your dirty secrets out in the public then don't give them a means to be there.
- SteveMax, on 06/17/2009, -1/+323 years old with the brains of a 15 year-old? Sounds about right.
- Residents, on 06/17/2009, -1/+2Yeah people can get nasty on those sites. You have to block an ex if you have to block them. They'll probably find some way to look at you - via a mutual friend, but odds are they won't harass you from said friends account. Other then that if you just move on and don't pay attention to what the ex does they will lose interest and leave you alone for lack of a rise out of you.
- SifuMoKung, on 06/17/2009, -1/+2Thank you Homer.
- eilowny, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1agreed.
this type of thing can be a double-edged sword.
social-networking sites have the tendency to play upon human fears which ordinarily one might not be aware of.
ex. someone married w/kids looking for something else.
it also seems to be one of the rare mediums that can invoke violence.
ex. someone posts something nasty on another person's myspace page, said person is killed or assaulted.
it will take a while for the nuances of burgeoning techonologies to be revealed but it will be interesting to see how it plays out. - drifter, on 06/17/2009, -2/+3This is why once I reach a certain age I will no longer be involved with social networking. Not to mention I figure by that age I should already know who my real friends are and be able to get along fine without knowing everything about everyone.
- sh0x, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Will you guys shut up? My girlfriend is coming... !
- SteveMax, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1I thought the problem was that people didn't realize Facebook can be dangerous, not that it can be more dangerous and only then people realized.
- sgxyay, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Yeah, sorry I don't know what all that slang meant...other than that it was bad.
- tonberryqueen, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Your girlfriend gets upset about you still having exes' numbers?
- nenadsuperzmaj, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1I've never ever felt like my privacy is hurt in any way by being online... until fb. I've been using it on and off for about a year, but since it came to my knowledge that any-bloody-one can google your name and get your fb page as a first result, regardless of weather he or she is actually using it, I decided I don't need that crap any more...
I've been "clean" for about 6 months now and I bloody luv it :) - ml4rocky, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Now our most private secrets are part of the public domain. I still can't really get used to facebook. If I want to remain an active "Digg"er I have no choice really.
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