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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 01:56:57 PM

Title: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 01:56:57 PM: Especially if you've moved a lot and/or mostly made friends on the Internet
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Mupepe on April 05, 2012, 01:59:09 PM: You better hope they have a really unique name
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Steve Youngblood on April 05, 2012, 02:03:05 PM: Zuckerberg's doing you a favor. Everyone knows that internet friends aren't real friends anyway.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 02:04:10 PM: Quote from: Steve Youngblood on April 05, 2012, 02:03:05 PM
Zuckerberg's doing you a favor. Everyone knows that internet friends aren't real friends anyway.

Mostly truth. However, two of my closest friends I met online originally.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Momo on April 05, 2012, 02:30:13 PM: Internet friends mail me candy so they are my best friends
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Himu on April 05, 2012, 02:32:01 PM: I have been looking for a friend on facebook for like 5 years

his name is drew smith.

yeah.

suffice to say there are a billion search results in texas alone. this is why you don't give your kids generic names.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Mupepe on April 05, 2012, 02:38:30 PM: No, this is why you develop a decent search function in your website. Even myspace was light years beyond Facebook's. And that's sad.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Himu on April 05, 2012, 02:44:53 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on April 05, 2012, 02:38:30 PM
No, this is why you develop a decent search function in your website. Even myspace was light years beyond Facebook's. And that's sad.

no, he moved away in 8th grade so i have no clue wtf
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: T234 on April 05, 2012, 02:49:42 PM: Nobody ever had trouble finding me by name :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Mupepe on April 05, 2012, 03:01:01 PM: Quote from: Stringer Bell on April 05, 2012, 02:44:53 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on April 05, 2012, 02:38:30 PM
No, this is why you develop a decent search function in your website. Even myspace was light years beyond Facebook's. And that's sad.

no, he moved away in 8th grade so i have no clue wtf
It's probably drewsy from the bore! *twilight zone*
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 03:34:50 PM: Quote from: T234 on April 05, 2012, 02:49:42 PM
Nobody ever had trouble finding me by name :lol :lol :lol

Truth!
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Corporal on April 05, 2012, 04:00:57 PM: Quote from: Momo on April 05, 2012, 02:30:13 PM
Internet friends mail me candy so they are my best friends
But they do that only because you pretend to be an open minded 12-year-old catholic school girl.

You already got your ass torn once, man. When will you learn? Is the candy really that delicious?

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I'm just jealous. Nobody ever mails me any candy. :fbm
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Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Positive Touch on April 05, 2012, 04:32:26 PM: i don't understand why they don't even let you search by area. totally useless
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Himu on April 05, 2012, 05:33:52 PM: It does. Put your family in their own category. put your friends in their own category. when you make an offensive post set it to Friends. If you want to make a catchall post, set it to all
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 05, 2012, 05:46:19 PM: The search function is fuck worthless on Facebook. You're better off just hoping that you have some mutual friends if you want to visit/friend someone.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 05:51:13 PM: I mean aside from being all creepy looking at a picture, what does facebook stalking accomplish? id rather have a search that works!
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Boogie on April 05, 2012, 09:16:05 PM: Search and instant messaging.

Two things the Internet more or less perfected a decade ago.

Two things Facebook still can't get right in 2012.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 05, 2012, 10:04:04 PM: Quote from: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 05:51:13 PM
I mean aside from being all creepy looking at a picture, what does facebook stalking accomplish? id rather have a search that works!

I suppose in the <1% chance that nothing is made private on someone's page.

I don't think it has anything to do with stalker behavior and more to do with a shitty search functionality.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Huff on April 05, 2012, 10:30:24 PM: What makes it even harder is people not using their middle name instead of a last name, or just using a semi-fake name in general to "hide" from schools and jobs they are applying for
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 11:56:06 PM: I can search within a city- you have to use the find a friend thing
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: DJ_Tet on April 06, 2012, 01:19:48 AM: You can also make yourself 'invisible' to the search. If someone doesn't want to be found via search they won't show up.

This is where google can come in handy.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: whiteACID on April 09, 2012, 01:23:12 AM: ya search function sucks! you should be able to search people with some sort of advanced search. Where you can put in name, town, schools, etc.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: DJ_Tet on April 09, 2012, 01:37:35 AM: You can, but it doesn't work that well.

Search a person's name and when the big list comes up there is a box at the top where you can enter a city or region. Doesn't work that well, plus people can opt out of the search too if they don't want to be found.
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: pilonv1 on April 09, 2012, 03:03:15 AM: obligatory "lol you still use facebook?" post
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: The Sceneman on April 09, 2012, 03:18:46 AM: Facebook? Or FAKEbook?
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: chronovore on April 09, 2012, 10:21:11 AM: The only thing about the function which bothers me is there's no button for, "No, fuck off, I fucking hate that douchebag."
Title: Re: Facebook's Find Friends is useless
Post by: Boogie on April 09, 2012, 10:25:41 AM: Quote from: chronovore on April 09, 2012, 10:21:11 AM
The only thing about the function which bothers me is there's no button for, "No, fuck off, I fucking hate that douchebag."

*Boogie likes this.*