The main thing that’s been exciting Twitter/Blogland for the past 24 hours has been this whole SXSW Zuckerberg/Lacy thing and pretty much everyone except Jemima Kiss is tearing Sarah Lacy to shreds. Everyone’s been saying that she was ‘flirty’ and acted like a ‘bimbo’ and that she gave girls in tech a bad name. [Read more]
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Johnathan Stephen Ross, your Facebook friend and mine, has left Facebook. Yesterday his status said something like ‘I am thinking of leaving Facebook because everyone seems to be bugging my wife with friend requests’. Hmmmm.
If you search for Jane Goldman on Facebook -she’s part way down the page with the red hair, for you non-Brits **EDIT** WAIT! I got to the end of writing this post and now she’s gone from Facebook, too. Well up until 2 minutes ago you could view her friend list, add her as a friend AND send her a message. Though her profile wasn’t viewable by anyone, she was leaving herself wide open to “pestering”… If getting friend requests from strangers was such a problem, why didn’t she limit the options available in the search ie not allow people to submit friend requests, not allow people to see her friends, not allow people to message her etc? Problem solved. But she decided not to take that option.
Whatever, it was enough of an annoyance to Jonathan for him to decide to leave. Facebook will be more rubbish without him.
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**EDIT** 16 January: Jonathan Ross has now left Facebook.
There’s been a lot of Jonathan Ross here recently. It went from me criticising his company’s YouTube policy, to him emailing me to explain their position, to me saying that position sucks, to him, personally, changing their policy, to everyone thinking that he rules and is a lovely geek.
He’s now joined Facebook. Think Wossy can outdo Fry’s Facebook-friendship madness? Go on, let’s try… befriend him.
I’m just seeing how this looks and works here. I’ve sent it out via Facebook already, but want to see how it looks here…
So, the other day I became Stephen Fry’s friend on Facebook. I don’t know why I requested a friendship… I mean, I’ve been denying friendships to people I don’t actually know - online or in person - so why I thought he’d approve mine, I don’t know. Still, his approving my friendship is just another reason why he’s The Loveliest Man On Earth TM.
My friendship was approved and then I thought, ‘Wait! This mightn’t be him.’ Of course, I wasn’t the only one who doubted. Yesterday he took a photo of himself, in a kidnapped stylee, saying hello to one of his doubters.
The photo was ‘backwards’ when he posted it
The floodgates opened and he was inundated with ‘friend’ requests. This morning he’d been so overhwelmed by friend requests that he turned off his ‘add friendship’ and started Stephen Fry’s Friendship Proxy Group.
Of course, I couldn’t help, but photoshop his photo… into a LOLFryz
Stephen Fry, the Lilley Allen of Facebook.
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Gia Milinovich is an American ex-pat, a science groupie and professional dork.
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