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An interesting little application on Facebook:
Gender breakdown: 43% female / 57% male
Relationship status: 58% single / 42% taken
Political breakdown: 87% democrats / 13% republicans
Geographic distribution: 34 countries, 30 states
Most common zodiac sign: Libra (99 friends)
Favorite music: Jazz (27 friends)
Favorite TV show: Lost (22 friends)
Favorite movie: Shawshank Redemption (17 friends)
Favorite book: (14 friends)
Favorite activity: Reading (32 friends)
No book was listed, which might mean 14 of my friends are illiterate.
The sample was my c. 1,300 Facebook connections, and I imagine it only took information where it was available.
A lot of it was expected: as someone who has been to two dozen countries, having contacts in 34 sounds reasonable. I have been to 10 US states, so having contacts in 30 also sounds reasonable. I have noticed I have a lot of Libran friends, long before Facebook came along. I am surprised about Lost, since I have not watched it since the second season; as well as The Shawshank Redemption featuring on 17 friends’ lists.
What was a big surprise was the 87 per cent Democratic proportion. I admit to having many leftist ideas, but in other respects I am quite centrist. I have friends on both sides of the political divide, as the comments on this blog alone illustrate. I figured Dems would outnumber Republicans, but not to a nearly seven-to-one ratio.
I was trying out a program that showed where one’s Twitter followers are on a map. I had no idea Brisbane was so far away from New Zealand.
The good news: Facebook, last week, stopped accusing me on a daily basis of copyright infringement, but I had to battle them for over a month to get the warning removed.
The bad news: the site still doesn’t really work. Funny, it worked in 2007.
For instance, I was surprised to note that comments made by both myself and one friend, Gary, had disappeared from my wall earlier today:
To double-check, I put an s after http in the status bar. And everything was back again:
Wow, I guess no one uses the Twitter application on Facebook any more. I know I had signed up, but given that it stopped working today, then this does not surprise me. Facebook must be peeved off if it reports that the plug-in has a grand total of zero users:
According to Mashable, people must upgrade their Wordpress installations as an attack is under way. I believe we only have a couple of sites that would be potentially at risk: Lucire has already been sorted, but the Your Wellington blog is still processing in the background as I type.
People say how easy this automatic upgrading is, but I have found it very difficult. I have done several of these upgrades now, and this is all I see:
Lucire’s upgrading process conked out after a few minutes earlier tonight, only to report, when heading back in to Wordpress, that the upgrade was successful. There, too, all I had was a blank screen before the error report.
I do not dare stop Your Wellington’s one, even though it has now taken longer than the Lucire upgrading.
This is unheard of: a form on Facebook actually working.
As some of you know, since August 3, I have been battling Facebook over its false allegations about copyright infringement that appear on my home page there. The copyright owners have never complained about the videos that Facebook deleted, which according to Facebook itself, is a prerequisite for deletion. (This raises even more privacy concerns: who is making the call on things I am uploading, if the copyright owners have not complained?) I have filled out the form protesting my innocence—effectively getting Facebook to comply with American common law about the presumption of innocence—multiple times daily. Each time, Facebook says there is an error submitting the form. (I know this after over 50 submissions.) Sometimes, it will give me a link to a DMCA form, but filling that out results in nothing, either. I just get taken back to the home page, with no acknowledgement, confronting Facebook’s accusations again (the following is an earlier screen shot):
The lesson seems to be: if you submit a form sufficient times, Facebook eventually accepts it. However, ‘sufficient times’ is defined as ‘around 60’.
The top nav bar returned to Facebook today, sans logotype. As did the now-familiar accusation against me for copyright infringement, even though Facebook removed this on the 17th and, as I mentioned, reinstated the very video it wrongly removed on the 3rd. As before, there is no way to file a counter-notification either with the form linked from here, or a second DMCA form linked when the first form’s submission results in an error.
Facebook must have a manual at its HQ entitled How to Piss off Your Users. Wrongful accusations will do it.
Facebook has stopped accusing me of piracy on a daily basis, but it still does not display properly if you are running Firefox on Vista. There is no Facebook logo, as you can see above.
If I were to use the Facebook secure server, it all comes back, which makes me wonder why Facebook doesn’t use the secure server’s stylesheets. Then all the Vista Firefox people will go away happy. Or happier, since we have come to expect that Facebook will mess up somewhere else.
First Twitter died for nearly two days. Facebook has been progressively dying, first removing its navigation bars, then its logo, then making false accusations, and now removing all the contents of my home page. And today, I see Vox has begun recommending splogs on my blog:
After dinner, this ad on Autocade still made me hungry. Since I have never heard of this brand Down Under, I thought the Dove soap people had diversified, but it turns out it’s part of the Mars company.
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