Well I'm a little spooked, it's picked up a friend of the family as "someone I may know"

and yes, I do know them. But how does it know that I know them? we have no mutual friends. I'm not on anything like hotmail, gmail etc.

Could it be that they are on one of those, and they have my email, and that's what's linked me to them?

Malc

there was a notice saying that people can have usernames which makes it easier to find friends and contacts... how is something easier than THE PERSONS FUCKING NAME to identify them?
I hate the way it's trying to be twitter.

no.

But when you type in john or whatever in the search bit, it gives you the list of people called john/have john in their name with a little picture.. it's simple enough.

But sometimes the list can be pretty long - surely it would be quicker if you knew your friend John had the username BumWangler5000 it would speed things up a bit?

but that is a fault with their search engine, it has no advanced features to the extent that you can't even narrow down by country.

but riles' point still stands.

I signed up with my uni email account and it's saying I should be friends with my former landlord, we have no friends in common, I presume it's from the emails Ive sent from that account or something, which is strange.

I hit the wrong button last night and inadvertantly became a 'fan' of Vimto. I don't even like the stuff.

but that is a fault with their search engine, it has no advanced features to the extent that you can't even narrow down by country.

I think it automatically shows the people nearest to you higher up the list which helps if you're looking for someone local but obviously isn't an awful lot of use if you want to add someone from further afield.

'Facebook will not store your data or contacts without your permission'. You lying fucking cunts.

I'd imagine you gave it permission when you told it to hunt through your contact book (in the small print, like).

no.

But when you type in john or whatever in the search bit, it gives you the list of people called john/have john in their name with a little picture.. it's simple enough.

Unless they've got privacy settings that prevent them being in those searches.

Don't let your fancy-schmancy facts get in the way of a RilesRant^TM.

But surely those same privacy settings would be the same for the usernames aswell

Who owns Facebook?
Who owns Twitter?
Who owns Myspace?
(shudder)

Who owns Facebook?
Who owns Twitter?
Who owns Myspace?

Imagine if they MERGED. (shudder)

I thought the idea of Facebook usernames was primarily so you could share your profile link with other people easier, i.e. http://www.facebook.com/BummerTriedToATree rather than http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?u=282u94823845234

Who owns Facebook?

Who owns Twitter?

Who owns Myspace?

MyTwitFace?

I'm assuming everyone who still uses this has turned off the search indexing they've just opted everyone into? If not, it's in Settings -> Privacy -> Search.

Didn't they turn on search engine indexing a few years ago? Or have they made it more worser?

They've brought in revised privacy settings to encourage users to share more of their data. When I logged in last week or so, I was presented with the options of what I wanted to share. However, if I chose their defaults, it would share status updates and a lot more, whereas in the past you'd have had to be a friend to see that. So I imagine there's a fair few people who haven't realised their status updates are now public.

Didn't they turn on search engine indexing a few years ago?

Or have they made it more worser?

I've just checked through my picture albums and pretty much all of them were set to 'Everyone'.

Realistically who is going to see them other than friends of friends?

Do not care.

Most of my photos are not of me anyway.

Bless Lewie, i did not know you were 12.. but don't you look cute