Vincent Gable’s Blog

February 6, 2010

All Your Facebook Friend’s Phone Numbers

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― Vincent Gable on February 6, 2010

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?filter=pfp

That’s the link to all your facebook-friend’s phone numbers.

Every time I see one of those “I need ya phone numbers” things on facebook I post that link. Please do the same. At least until the phone companies fix the real problem by automatically backing up contacts from the phone “in the cloud

September 30, 2008

The Hollow Friends

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― Vincent Gable on September 30, 2008

…there is actual precedent for creating value for people with technology. Think of word processors, databases, spreadsheets, web browsers, web publishing, search engines, email, etc. Social media is the first major computing revolution that as far as I can tell, has produced essentially nothing.

But the social media craze is perfectly fitting in a society where producing nothing has been in fashion for years. Mortgages without credit. Profit without product. Riches without risk. Oops.

Hank Williams

And here’s Marlon Brando reading The Hollow Men in Apocalypse Now.

July 3, 2008

Unfriends

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― Vincent Gable on July 3, 2008

Facebook‘s “People You May Know” feature shows you a few links to profiles of people you … well, may know. Put another way it’s a feature that
shows you people that all your friends know who you are not friends with. There aren’t pleasant names for these kinds of people.

Facebook is a spiteful conniving bitch

It continues to put my ex in the “people you may know” section.
You fuckin’ dirty backstabbing whore, facebook, I’ll kill you. Just keep rubbing that shit in, I’ll fucking kill you.

some bitter guy.

Applying the ‘The Security Mindset’ can keep you from implementing a similar feature.

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