This is from late 2007 (I found it here on Vox today) but it may still be valid:

So what is it with Facebook? I get plenty of friend requests from people I do not know, but for the last month, a friend and I have been trying to connect. I cannot find him in the search. He cannot find me. We have given each other the public links that Facebook itself says we can give. I gave him my Facebook URL from the public Google index. We have given each other our private emails. According to Facebook, the other does not exist. My friend thinks it may be an international thing, but I get requests from the US regularly. I fed in his email addresses to “invite” him to Facebook. Facebook returns: ‘The following email addresses cannot be invited’, listing my friend’s address.
   Tonight, it says, ‘Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.’ This was after I logged in—it logged me out again.
   Of course, I logged back in immediately, rather than in a few hours. Lesson one of computing: never believe an error message.
   You can always trust me to hit the errors that no one else can. All I do is use programs or sites like a normal person but I always find the limits.

My friend Chuck got me hooked on Car IQ on Facebook—and I have been playing the darned quiz and even wrote one with the pics I had from Autocade. It also helped that I am ’fluey, not really having the brain power to do proper work.
   Writing my quiz was hard because it was missing so many models from which one could choose. I have notified the folks running the service but it’s amazing that the Audi Quattro and the entire Wolseley marque were missing when there were obscure (by international standards) cars such as the Chevrolet Meriva, Holden Gemini and Leyland P76 on there. (I assume these were added by users.) The Audi Quattro, ladies and gentlemen! Missing! How could this be missing?!
   Here are some I added today, without resorting to web checks apart from the Daimlers to get the names right.

Daewoo Winstorm
Daewoo Tosca
Chevrolet Kommando
Chevrolet Chevy II
Chevrolet Vectra
Seat 133
Seat Sport
Renault 6
Renault 7
Renault 10
Renault 15
Renault 17
Renault 18
Renault 20
Renault 30
Suzuki Fronte
Suzuki Cervo
Zastava 101
Tofas Sahin
Tofas Kartal
FSM Polonez
FSM Maluch
FSM Polski-Fiat 125
Iso Grifo
Wolseley Six
Honda Concerto
Honda Domani
Honda Ascot
Honda Ascot Innova
Morris Oxford
Morris Cowley
Morris 1800
Morris 2200
Morris 1100
Morris 1300
Morris Major
Morris Tasman
Austin Marina
Austin Mini Metro
Austin 1100
Austin 1300
Austin 1800
Austin 2200
Austin Kimberley
Simca 1300
Simca 1301
Simca 1500
Simca 1501
Simca Aronde
Holden Belmont
Holden Caprice
Holden Premier
Holden Monterey
Holden Epica
Chrysler Sigma
Chrysler Galant
Chrysler Regal
Chrysler Charger
Chrysler Valiant
Chrysler V8
Innocenti Mini
Innocenti Alba
Innocenti Regent
Chrysler Sunbeam
Chrysler Horizon
Daimler SP250
Daimler Sovereign
Daimler Double-Six
Daimler Century
Daimler V8 250
Talbot Solara
Talbot 1510
Talbot Tagora
Triumph 2500
Triumph 1300
Triumph 1500
Triumph Mayflower
Triumph TRX
Triumph 2.5PI
BMW 2000
BMW 1500
BMW 1602
BMW 1600
BMW 2500
BMW 3.0 CSL
BMW 3.0 CSI
BMW 2800
Mercury S-55
Ford Meteor
Ford Tierra
Ford Frontenac
Ford Model T
Ford Consul
Ford Zodiac
Bristol 409
Bristol 411
Bristol 412
Bristol Beaufighter
Bristol 603
Bristol Britannia
Bristol Brigand
Daewoo Gentra
Daewoo Kalos

   Play the game at www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6333203805.

Although I have finally tired of Facebook, my friend Jason Alba has co-authored one on the service, called I’m on Facebook—Now What?, to which I contributed briefly.
   I would recommend this as a how-to guide for those unfamiliar with social networks. The authors employ a lot of the tricks I use for the service. Do get it if you are new to Facebook, or even if you are not so new to it.

There is a group on Facebook, called Six Degrees of Separation. It was a terrible time waster: in the discussion group there are topics along the lines of ‘Link to the person above you’. The idea: take the last poster’s name and see, by viewing their friends, and then their friends, if you can eventually find a path, within six degrees, back to yourself.
   However, it no longer works as once again Facebook has done a nip–tuck that doesn’t gel with regular human behaviour.

   In one thread, the lady who wrote last was Heather Stabo. I click on Heather’s name and get her profile:

   The idea now is to view Heather’s friends. So far, so good:

   Now, Heather has a lot of friends, so I need to narrow them down. It’s often handy to look for regions or workplaces that she might have in common with me, and we can see if there are connections through them. I think I should see what regional friends she has: And of her regions, she has two friends in Los Angeles. That might be a good start: I have friends in LA, too. Let’s choose that option.    And therein lies the problem. Facebook doesn’t list Heather’s two LA friends. It lists my 14 LA friends.
   In fact, as far as I can tell, there is no way I can see Heather’s LA friends without browsing through every page of all her friends.
   Good news: I won’t be wasting my time here (I keep leaving the group anyway).

A very nice chap by the name of Apollo introduced me to Dizzler, a media player that allows one to stream (legally) music, video and radio. It’s pretty good and I incorporated it into my Facebook page, after programming in a bunch of songs, two videos and one radio station (Rix FM in Sweden).
   It’s not without its faults. Monica Zetterlund, one of Sweden’s top jazz artists, isn’t even represented on Dizzler. Sacha Distel has four songs, and one of them doesn’t even sound like him. KCSM-FM, the jazz station in the Bay Area, is not among the radio choices. On Facebook, I can’t see the search box words (black text on a black background is not a very good idea) and when I can see them, they’re set in Arial or Arial Rounded—two typeface families I intentionally uninstall from all our company computers as they breach notions of good taste and common decency.
   Apollo does admit it is more geared toward pop songs and the US, however. And despite its shortcomings, it does have enough songs for me to have a wee playlist of favourites. I’d still recommend it and hope that its catalogue becomes more comprehensive. Having the complete songs on my Facebook page is a nice touch.

I found this among the Facebook-posted items from Eric Karjaluoto: a scene from Sesame Street dubbed with the voices of Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci from Casino. Warning: there is a lot of swearing in this. But of the remixes, re-edits and redubs on YouTube, this has to be one of the best.
   The worrying thing is that there are resemblances between Ernie and Pesci, and Bert and de Niro.

Some more “easy” questions from my TV Trivia account at Facebook, and the percentage for each choice. Correct answers in bold.
   As mentioned, someone out there is having fun with all my wrong answers about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and EastEnders.

In Life on Mars, which old movie is often referred to through the series’ characters, songs and dialogue?
Casablanca (16.7)
Citizen Kane (50.0)
The Wizard of Oz (0.0)
Gone with the Wind (16.7)
skipped (16.7)

In Mission: Impossible, who never smoked?
Jim Phelps (20.0)
Barney Collier (80.0)
Cinnamon Carter (0.0)
Willy Armitage (0.0)
skipped (0.0)

In Minder, who sang the title song?
Paul McCartney (0.0)
Tony Christie (100.0)
Dennis Waterman (0.0)
Gerard Kenny (0.0)
skipped (0.0)

In The Paradise Club, what was the nationality of Danny’s heavy, Jonjo O’Brady?
Polish (16.7)
Irish (0.0)
Scottish (16.7)
Jamaican (50.0)
skipped (16.7)

In The Professionals, what was the name of the head of the squad?
Morris Cowley (33.3)
George Cowley (0.0)
John Steed (66.7)
Harry Malone (0.0)
skipped (0.0)

In The Saint, what was the licence plate shown on Simon Templar’s Volvo P1800 and 1800S?
NUV 647E (62.5)
71 DXC (25.0)
77 GYL (0.0)
ST 1 (0.0)
skipped (12.5)

   The majority of people, so far, think that John Steed led CI5 in The Professionals. The Paradise Club one gets me—I thought the clue was in the name Jonjo O’Brady, yet no one so far has chosen ‘Irish’ as his nationality. It was meant to be an easy giveaway! And the last one, every time you saw Simon Templar’s car, the registration was quite clear—ST 1—yet this has never been chosen.

[Cross-posted] One glitch aside (in the notes below) I think we might be ready for prime-time—this is the public announcement (rather than the private one sent to Voxers earlier). Lucire has a blog—after I resisted it for years. The idea: to write about some behind-the-scenes stuff. I see no reason about having any “mystique” behind what we do. We work—hard.
   Some of you in the marketing world will know that I did not think much of blogs originally. And that led to my refusal to go with a Lucire blog—after all, the forum was pretty successful from 2002 to 2005 before our hard drive conked out in 2006 and a lot of the data disappeared (they’re buried on the server somewhere, I am told by the team).
   But the world has moved on, too, since 2005, and putting the occasional op-ed in blog form doesn’t seem too bad an idea. As long as it contributes to the community and allows us to talk to our readers, why not?
   It’s been repeated in the first post of the new blog, where Lucire ‘Insider’—the name comes from the print edition, though I did toy with ‘Oracle’—is stated to complement the Forum and Facebook group.
   What I am wondering is how long my MySpace opposition will hold out, now that I am eating humble pie on this issue. As mentioned, the idea of a JY&A Media publication appearing on a Murdoch Press site feels funny.

Note to Maureen: we weren’t able to fix that earlier glitch you mentioned as nothing in the coding shows up (especially harder since it can’t be replicated on our computers), though there are some oddities (the Digg.com, Del.icio.us, etc. links only show on some posts, and there is no logical reason for them being “selective”). But who said computer programs were logical?! One entry aside, only a few dozen people are visiting the blog at the moment as we haven’t exactly made it obvious, so maybe with a bigger sample we might be able to track down the error. Please do bear with us!
   If anyone else cannot see parts of the Lucire ‘Insider’ comment form, viz. if the name, email and blog fields disappear, please send me a comment here. Especially if you have theories on why this happens!—JY

I wrote some questions for TV Trivia on Facebook and was surprised to see folks get some wrong. Of course, I probably answered all the Coronation Street, Lost, and Grey’s Anatomy ones wrongly, and I really am sick of seeing any about Friends.
   For any of you born before the 1980s, the results may seem puzzling. The bold one is the correct answer, the parenthesized numbers are the percentage of people choosing that particular one.

1. Fawlty Towers is set in which town?

• Swansea (3.4)
• Brighton (27.6)
• Torquay (65.5)
• Dover (3.4)
• skipped (0.0)

2. In Mission: Impossible, which stars were married off-screen?

• Martin Landau and Barbara Bain (25.0)
• Peter Graves and Barbara Bain (50.0)
• Peter Lupus and Lesley Ann Warren (0.0)
• Lynda Day George and Peter Lupus (0.0)
• skipped (25.0)

3. In Bewitched, what are the names of the children?

Tabitha and Adam (66.1)

Tabitha and Stephen (30.1)

Larry and Louise (1.2)

Gladys and Abner (0.6)

skipped (2.0)

Stephen Stephens would be a dumb name, right?
   I threw in some hard ones there, but also a bunch of easy ones. All a matter of perspective, I guess, but with the frequency of repeats of Fawlty and Bewitched, I expected more to get those right.

PS.: Among the shows the program insists does not exist: Mr & Mrs Smith and CI5: the New Professionals. Despite this, it does recognize Special Squad from Australia, The Paradise Club, Day Break, Pointman and A Man Called Sloane. What is nuts is that it also recognizes Supertrain! I mean, there are more Mr & Mrs Smith fans than Supertrain fans, surely?