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I've got plenty of Twones invites left. Comment if you'd like one.

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Do you still have any twones invites? - Greg

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Leave your e-mail address. - © b e e n s w a n k

brainteeth@gmail.com - Mony Quran

I'd like one if you still have any available. jamar78@gmail.com - jamar78

Invites sent. I apologize for the delay. - © b e e n s w a n k

Praveen Vasudev to Praveen's feed, iPhone, All Things Apple, The Goodie Room, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech

Factron iPhone 3G case with interchangeable camera lenses - http://www.techchee.com/2009...

Sunday from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Ron Thompson, Robert Freeze, Kazuya Yokoyama and 3 other people liked this

Factron iPhone case is a pretty unique metallic jacket for your iPhone. Once your iPhone has been wrapped with the Factron case, you can also stick a lens at the back of where the camera is. By that you can also interchange a variety of lenses to suit different shootings that you want. - Praveen Vasudev from Bookmarklet

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That looks very nice. - Ron Bailey

Its bulkier than I thought it would be. - Praveen Vasudev

Really? - © b e e n s w a n k

Martin Bryant to Martin's feed, TheNextWeb Forum

YouTube, Last.fm mashup is pretty good, very illegal - http://thenextweb.com/appetit...

Sunday from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Iván Abrego, Tsali, The Native of FF and Maxamad (Amazigh) liked this

"YouScrobble takes elements of Last.fm and Youtube and wraps them up in a neat package. What a shame that it’s almost certainly illegal." - Martin Bryant from Bookmarklet

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Nice use of their APIs. The download issue is kind of silly considering the quality of songs on YT aren't the best + there are many other tools that do the same thing. It'll be an easy target to attack with litigation though. - Maxamad (Amazigh)

Yeah, they should concentrate on the discovery aspect for sure. - Martin Bryant from iPhone

I wouldn't utilize the download feature anyway. - © b e e n s w a n k

o:zge gurer to o:zge's feed, ART ROOMََََ, Photographing, Photography as Art

Scott Rhea ~~~http://www.photographersgallery.com/by_arti...

Saturday - Comment - Like - Share

Ilariaga, missipipi, Ezgi Genç and 19 other people liked this

I'm ready to buy 'TV'. - © b e e n s w a n k

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neden bilmiyorum ama ilk fotodan tırstım ben - melankolikdeli

su altından korkuyor musun? belki onun etkisi vardır. karanlık sular küçük kız filan, tam japon korku filmi teması. - o:zge gurer

çocukluğuma inelim (: (dakikada karakter analizi yaptın helal olsun (: ) - melankolikdeli

hadi ya :) - o:zge gurer

diğer yazdıkların değil ama japon korku filmlerini çağrıştırdığı için tırsmış olabilirim (: - melankolikdeli

grudge vardı ondan sonra bıraktım ben izlemiyorum öyle şeyleri. - o:zge gurer

çok iyiler O_o - Furkan Tunalı

gotta <bump> this beauty. - Bicentennial (Franc)

Aycin Asan to Aycin's feed, Photography United, Photography as Art, Photographing, ART ROOMََََ, Fotograf

Mr Toledano " Hope and Fear " " Hope and Fear is the external manifestation of the internal desires and paranoia that are adrift in america. " http://mrtoledano.com/

Saturday - Comment - Like - Share

Nia, merveerturk, Noriko and 18 other people liked this

4 - Aycin Asan

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I like your profile picture! - © b e e n s w a n k

so did i. - asli subasi

Different style along with visual proception. - Marty G Fisher Sr

great stuff. - Bicentennial (Franc)

Looking for a lookbook.nu invite. Will trade for Jolicloud and/or Twones invite.

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leave ur email - Кеша

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brandonmccall [at] gmail [dot] [com] - © b e e n s w a n k

complete - Кеша

You're awesome. Thanks! - © b e e n s w a n k

yw ) - Кеша

Need your email so I can invite ya, and yes I'll take a jolicloud for it :) TIM J. TUNNICLIFF - Tim Tunnicliff from email

Tim - jolicloud its a children OS for notebooks )) - Кеша

Oh? lol . . . Thanks for the heads up :) TIM J. TUNNICLIFF - Tim Tunnicliff from email

yw ) - Кеша

RAPatton

suicideblonde: bohemea: Blake Lively - Marie Claire by Mark Abrahams, December 2009 —- she’s got legs, and she knows how to use them - http://pattonroberta.tumblr.com/post...

Saturday from Tumblr - Comment - Like - Share

Fossil Huntress, sean percival and © b e e n s w a n k liked this

I have no idea who she is, but she does have some nice gams - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

She makes my mouth water. - © b e e n s w a n k

RAPatton

suicideblonde: Scarlett Johansson photographed by Sheryl Nields - http://pattonroberta.tumblr.com/post...

Saturday from Tumblr - Comment - Like - Share

Nia, Steven Perez, Alex Scrivener and 5 other people liked this

I didn't recognize her at all - RAPatton from iPhone

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Very nice. - © b e e n s w a n k

Looks almost more like Charlize Theron. - LogEx

I agree, Logex - RAPatton from iPhone

Jeez that's who I thought it was (devils advocate right) - Mark Essel from iPhone

I'm obviously more obsessed than ya'll *chuckle* - Michael W. May

I have to like any post with Scarlett. It's a compulsion. - Alex Scrivener

Dealzmodo: $100 Xbox 360 at Amazon, More Electronics Deals All Day Long - http://gizmodo.com/5399310...

Saturday - Comment - Like - Share

This might be the right time to buy a 360. - © b e e n s w a n k

Yolanda

Oatmeal is...

Thursday - Comment - Like - Share

Helen Sventitsky, anjelina, Josh Haley and 9 other people liked this

...yummy! - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

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downstairs - Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch

Very yummy, and filling too! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

difficult to clean up if you forget to rinse the bowl. - Mike Nencetti

something I should eat more of. - Sarah is Novembery

an ingredient in some cookies - RAPatton

...economically sound. - © b e e n s w a n k

not my favorite breakfast food. - Michelle Martinez

a great excess lipoprotein absorber. - Eric Logan

superior to grits! - The Archangel ωαřмaiden

warm on a cold morning. - Betsy (bentley) Vera

...even better with a spoon of peanut butter. - 1x29

The straight man in oatmeal-raisin cookies. - Greg GuitarBuster

Best whole rolled for the best texture. - Trish Haley from iPhone

...not nearly as good as cream of wheat, but makes awesome cookies when combined with raisins or chocolate chips. - Curtiss Grymala from iPhone

better in breakfast bars and cookies. - Carmen

Best served with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, raisins, and walnuts... Now I might have to make a bowl! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I agree with Tina, I love oatmeal! - Trish R

not what I'm eating right now. - Jim Hearts FF

... a galactogogue. - Rochelle

eventhough I suspected with that meant, Rochelle. I had to google anyway to be sure. :) - Yolanda from IM

anway, today I discovered that oatmeal isn't that great without extra sugar. Today's oatmeal had some raisins, granola, and one packet of equal. Tomorrow's oatmeal will require a different approach. - Yolanda from IM

A great sub for white paste when you are out of glue. - John D Reasor

healthy, can be made several yummy ways, and doesn't give me stomach cramps when I'm running - Shevonne

NO. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Right there with you, Yolanda: have to have sweet in my oatmeal. Also, have to have some salt (typically butter). Today's batch was not quite enough butter and I find it a touch bland... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

a pinch of salt, butter, brown sugar or maple syrup, craisins, optional toasted pecans. NOMNOMNOMNOM - ha3rvey (free hugs!)

Yummmmmmm. I just add peanut butter. Sometimes a little agave nectar. - Alix Whitmire

comforting on a cold winter afternoon - VAL D.

something I eat a couple of times a week for breakfast. I like the Irish Steel Cut Oatmeal in preference to the regular Quaker style rolled oatmeal. I never ever buy the quick oats, and that has had a good percentage of the fiber, and the cholesterol lowering benefits removed by the process. - Ian May

Satans glue - Mo Kargas

lol Mo - VAL D.

Baked oatmeal is fantastic! Especially with apples, cinnamon, and a wee bit of brown sugar. - Katy S

Nifty made kinda thick, with a well in the middle for half&half, and a crunchy sprinkle of sugar. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

I make my oatmeal with water, and nothing else. That's how I like it. - Ian May

Great aide in losing weight. No sugar for me ;) - Bicentennial (Franc)

I don't generally take sugar (and never ever any of those nasty tasting chemical sweeteners) with anything. - Ian May

Nutritious and very filling.....try it with a tablespoon or two of fat-free Smuckers Jam......yummy! - Bonnie Foster

soft on my toothless gums - L Stephen Cleary

......also good with cut up dried fruit, like apricots or cranberries. - Bonnie Foster

so healthy, but very boring... - anjelina

@Oatmeal - Matthew Inman ;) - Mona Nomura

... fantastic with apples, blueberries and walnuts! - Ken Morley

no match for waffles, pancakes, eggs, bacon, and biscuits. - Derrick

Invites: Mike Kogelman

20 GWave Invites -- leave 'em.

October 31 - Comment - Like - Share

Michele Masina, joy003, oliv21 and Holden Page liked this

hi,pls,joy003 at gmail dot com,thank you! - joy003

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andry.peng [at]gmail dot com,thanks! - andry

scabrcom at gmail, thx:) - Igor Poltavskiy

johnnicolly at gmail,thx u!! - Johnnicolly

good,please to, berobertaa # gmail.com ,thanks... - Robertaa

if still have,please send a invite to me ,heqy.he at gmail .com,thanks! - heqy

if still have,please send a invite to me, thanks , hamidreza.mazlaghani@gmail.com - Hamid Reza

mbriquet at gmail dot com thanks - brqt

Hi Mike - could you please send me one invite, my email is ric4p5 at gmail Thanks - jose manuel

denek08@gmail.com , thank you - parasol

hamid.azimy [at] gmail , thanks! :) - Hamid the Great

Hi, can you send one to masinamichele[at]gmail.com? Thank you! - Michele Masina

Would love one if you still have them... scotthuston {at} g m a i l dot com - Scott Huston

remi.pages (at) gmail.com - Remi pages from FreshFeed

Thx - Remi pages from FreshFeed

All have been nominated/invited. Still got a few left. - Mike Kogelman

brandonmccall at gmail dot com. Thanks! - © b e e n s w a n k

Sent to brandonmccall -- next? :) still got 6. - Mike Kogelman

but i didn't receive anything yet :( hamid.azimy@gmail.com ... - Hamid the Great

Hi Mike,still have?please send to hendrypeng at gmail dot com,thx! - hendrypeng

Hamid, they call them "nominations" which typically means anyone I invite will get theirs in the next batch google sends out. I am not sure when that will be exactly. - Mike Kogelman from iPhone

OK! Thanks dude! :) - Hamid the Great

Hi :) I'll be glad to receive an invitation. my email address: javid.e@gmail.com - NightW01F

Thanks Mike! - © b e e n s w a n k

Would love one if you have any left - Many Thanks - kr.doyle@gmail.com - Kevin Doyle

i think this is a long shot but could you invite me? Thanks! scott.j.emerson[at]gmail[dot]com - Scott Emerson

if u still have would be so nice :) angelicefrim@gmail.com thanks.. - ♪♫ halil ♪♫

prophotorental at gmail dot com please - Stepan Mazurov

I've got like 2 extra Google Wave invites. Just sayin'...

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can i get one ? prompheus [at] gmail com - Eray Korkmaz

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Sent. Let me know if you receive it. - © b e e n s w a n k

thank you. i got it - Eray Korkmaz

one for me, please... - Luis Rojo

All gone. Sorry! - © b e e n s w a n k

Can Smart.fm's iPhone App Really Teach You Brain Anatomy? - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...

Thursday - Comment - Like - Share

Let's see. - © b e e n s w a n k

valery

And now I've just been let down by one more friend! Wtf is wrong with people?

November 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I'll never let you down. - © b e e n s w a n k

Xbox 360 With Free $100 Gift Card Deal Might Be Hitting Walmart This Weekend - http://gizmodo.com/5396211...

November 3 - Comment - Like - Share

I'm a sucker for deals like this. - © b e e n s w a n k

Sholes and Sholes Tablet for T-Mobile Spotted on Motorola Site - http://www.intomobile.com/2009...

November 2 - Comment - Like - Share

Seems as though Motorola may be releasing a tablet in the future. Interesting. - © b e e n s w a n k

My iPhone applications 11.02.09 (Please excuse the arrangement of the screenshots.)

November 2 - Comment - Like - Share

RAPatton and Wayne Sutton liked this

arrangement is ok, the background makes me blind :) - ArMyZ

Ha. Thanks. My background is quite vibrant. - © b e e n s w a n k

Ow. It burns:) The background that is. - Zachary TG

Melissa

Flickr: Fall in Kentucky - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

October 31 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

rowlikeagirl, hecho en eu, cecily, Red Pen and 27 other people liked this

I'm very happy with the way these shots came out. I think I will try to fly east whenever Fall hits. I really fell in love with all of this. - Melissa from Bookmarklet

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Beautiful. - © b e e n s w a n k

:) - Melissa

you should! in particular you should visit the eastern mountains. tallulah gorge in georgia is beautiful http://www.gastateparks.org/Tallula... ... so are the great smoky mountains: http://www.nps.gov/grsm.... there's a fall color page for the smokies too: http://www.nps.gov/grsm... - tiffany

dude, i just put all your suggestions in my phone. serious about exploring during the Fall. - Melissa

Wonderful! - Kol Tregaskes

Uh no Tiffany Melissa's fall travel = Louisville. Don't be trying to take her away from us. - Michelle Jones

Twones and SkyGrid invites available. Catch me while I'm online. Comment if you're interested.

October 31 - Comment - Like - Share

Do you have any Twones invites left? ph.mongeau (a) gmail.com - Philippe Mongeau

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Send me SkyGrid Please. snhasani@gmail.com - Nasser Hasani

Phillippe- Sent. - © b e e n s w a n k

Nasser- Sent. - © b e e n s w a n k

Thanks, I just received it. :) - Philippe Mongeau

My pleasure. - © b e e n s w a n k

Thank you :)) - Nasser Hasani

On the Street....Mother & Daughter, Paris - http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2009...

November 1 - Comment - Like - Share

Love it. - © b e e n s w a n k

Robert Scoble

Yo @tweetdeck @tweetie @seesmic where are the list-enabled clients? I keep watching @Scobleizer/twitter-tools-and-devs and NADA! Shame!

November 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Susan Beebe, Joel Zehring, NaHi and 3 other people liked this

There's not an API for lists yet, or so I've heard. - Glen Campbell

I agree. List-enabled client applications are very necessary. - © b e e n s w a n k

It looks like nambu latest build has a "lists" nodes.. not functional yet.. but... - Naor Mark

Haggis (Sean Loyless) to Haggis's feed, Invites

I have 1 Google Wave invite. Who wants it? Leave email in comments.

October 31 - Comments disabled - Like - Share

Michele Masina, Angelic ✿, Tsali, The Native of FF and Thomas Power liked this

cerenyuc at gmail dot com thanks a lot - Ceren Yucel

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I do! brandonmccall at gmail dot com. You're the best! - © b e e n s w a n k

angelicefrim at gmail thanks :) - Angelic ✿

Brainteeth@gmail.com thx - Mony Quran

sydantalvi at gmail.com :) - Matti Hiltunen

gab.matrix1 at gmail dot com, thanks! - Gabriel

please send webservice.cn at gmail dot com,thanks! - robert

Me, please!! masinamichele [at] gmail [dot] com - Michele Masina

michaelbeale@ppimk.com - Great if you can - Michael Beale

pls send a to me pch3693 at gmail.com,thanks! - andry

Pls peter@blubox.com thxs - Pete Boswell

pls heqy.he at gmail dot com,thanks a lot. - heqy

good news!hendrypeng at gmail dot com,thx! - hendrypeng

please sent it to ric4p5 gmail thanks :) - jose manuel

scabrcom at gmail,thx. - Igor Poltavskiy

i want wave invitation can u send me on (jituscam@gmail.com) - Sweet Gul

I best be getting one, ninja man whore. - The Bohemian Penguin

Trade you for pictures of you in your costume! :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

1 more left. Saving the last 3. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I sent you one last night! - The Bohemian Penguin

WHAT. I didn't get it! :( - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Please..chad.d.schofield at gmail.com - Chad Schofield

VERIZON FAIL. Anyway, it's the one on my feed now. - The Bohemian Penguin

All done. No more left, locking this thread. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Poll: What device are you most excited for? - http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009...

October 31 - Comment - Like - Share

I'm happy with what i have. - © b e e n s w a n k

RAPatton

James Jean's at the Japanese American National Museum

October 29 from email - Comment - Like - Share

DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE, © b e e n s w a n k, Melissa and 6 other people liked this

*jealous* - Lindsey is Fierce!

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Several of them were up including one I'd never seen but I liked - RAPatton from iPhone

I can't believe they're letting you take pictures in there. They have strict no photography rule. - Anika

robert likes to try taking photos when he is not supposed to... he tried last night at the Foo Fighters Storytellers thing, but I was not having it. - edythe

images by James Jean http://images.google.com/images... thanks for introducing me to his work, :) - chaz2b

I love his work, and his work was why I went, but it was a good museum worthy of another journey - RAPatton from iPhone

i get invitations all the time from them, but cant attend cause i'm on the east coast, if you'd like, i can forward them to you? - chaz2b

I live on the eastern side also, I am just visiting, but thanks for the offer! - RAPatton from iPhone

Will this be up during your visit in December? Do you wanna go again? :) - Melissa

It ends in Jan., and I've thought of taking the boys - RAPatton from iPhone

oh sweet. you definitely should. we can also plan to grab shabu-shabu or some sushi while we're in the area :D - Melissa

I think I'd also like to take them to the inland Getty; this summer we did the Villa - RAPatton from iPhone

Yes! your family needs to see the views from there. Also, the garden is quite fantastic. - Melissa

I know, I've been there, but the boys haven't yet. Shirley Jones was right next to us when we did that. Top that! Ha! I thought not. ;) - RAPatton from iPhone

LOL! You got me there!! - Melissa

Thanks for the introduction. - © b e e n s w a n k

No problem, © b e e n s w a n k! He does great work; Melissa and both like a work of his called Maze in particular - RAPatton from iPhone

ooh yes. let me find it and bump - Melissa

Melissa - please do. I don't see 'Maze' on his website. - © b e e n s w a n k

you should see it on the top of my page now :) - Melissa

ooh, the inland getty is so dope. i went there last time i was in L.A. they have a lot of medieval works, which surprised me. it's really a fantastic museum. and $15 per car can't be beat. the museum here isn't nearly as large and costs $20 to get in plus $11 to park. <tangentially related>the architect -- richard meier -- who designed the getty also designed the main part of the high... more... - tiffany

Back into FriendFeed. Need to organize my subscriptions...

October 31 - Comment - Like - Share

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And get into some rooms - RAPatton from iPhone

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yeah! what RAP said :) - Melissa

Any recommendations for Photography & Art? (Rooms that is.) - © b e e n s w a n k

browse through my groups. you'll find a bunch there :) - Melissa

Melissa- 'Preciate it. - © b e e n s w a n k

no worries, anytime. I'm touch and go on FriendFeed but I've found a solid group of friends I follow. Once you tweak it to your liking it becomes really fun. Enjoy. - Melissa

I am in the art room but that has a lot of items; the comic room has a bit of art; melissa, artymiss and Lindsey is Fierce have a lot of art. Thomas Hawk, Nathalie, Ja Castillo an many others have great photographs and articles about photography - RAPatton from iPhone

Melissa

J A M E S J E A N "Maze" - http://www.jamesjean.com/work...

August 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Medad Rangi, Michael W. May, © b e e n s w a n k and 10 other people liked this

missmartini and I made a quick stop at Secret HQs this afternoon and they had James Jean's Kindling on sale. I've been dying to own a print of this. and now I have it :) - Melissa from Bookmarklet

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RAP - I actually talked about you with the owner since I said you showed me the signed copy you got from Comic Con :) - Melissa

Cool! I talked to one of the owners the morning I took the boys there. We acquired a Jeff Smith book for them - RAPatton

Such a great image. - Derrick

hands down my favorite by James Jean. - Melissa

I love it too. You know you can buy the print. I've almost pulled the trigger a few times, I just have to figure where to hang it. - RAPatton

RAP - I am going to frame the pull out from the Kindling set for now. - Melissa

I haven't had the guts to remove anything from Kindling. I've kept it as one piece to this juncture. - RAPatton

I actually bought Kindling just for this :) lolol. When I have more wall space I'll frame more from the set. Though the print doesnt cost that much I suppose. - Melissa

*bumping* - Melissa

the best of Jean's, IMHO. - Melissa

I've seen this before. I really like this piece too. - © b e e n s w a n k

It is great isn't it; Melissa asked him about it and he said something like this, "it is simple, women are complicated" - RAPatton from iPhone

RAP- That has to be one of the most brilliant explanations I've ever heard. - © b e e n s w a n k

He is a very nice guy. Really glad I got to meet him - Melissa

I'd love to meet him myself. - © b e e n s w a n k

Isn't it great? Melissa got it straight from him at a signing and acquired an autograph for me :) - RAPatton from iPhone

That's excellent. I'm going to see if I can find any of his bound work on Amazon. - © b e e n s w a n k

:D - Melissa

There is a collection of covers he did fit Fables which is outstanding and Melissa and I both have Kindling which includes a small print of Maze - RAPatton from iPhone

I got the Fables covers as a birthday gift and bought Kindling not too long ago at Secret HQs. I'd like PR3 (Process Recess 3) I should have snagged it at the gallery. - Melissa

I'm buying one or two books today. Trying to make a decision now. - © b e e n s w a n k

Get Kindling. - Melissa

valery

Thanks for letting me know you definitely are ignoring me. Answering & immediately hanging up the phone, after I hear a voice, is NOT cool.

October 30 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Yea, that's not cool at all. - © b e e n s w a n k

Akiva Moskovitz

I hate Facebook so much, I just deactivated my account.

October 27 - Comment - Like - Share

Jason Huebel, Michelle Marie Miller, Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF and 54 other people liked this

Why? - Jesse Stay

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but did you delete it? - LogEx

They bought Akiva's precious FF ;) - Roberto Bonini

I did it a few years ago , it was gone for good not sure why I came back. You must hate FB as much as I do. jp - johnpiercy from iPhone

Jesse, it's the UI, mainly. I truly appreciate what Buchheit and the Gang are doing over there but the UI just makes me want to claw my eyes out. And I can't stand the never-ending stream of pokes, games, invites, et al. It's truly a spammer's paradise because it encourages your friends to just send crap to EVERYONE on their list with no discrimination. And, finally, it serves no... more... - Akiva Moskovitz

Does deactivating accomplish something beyond just never visiting the site? I mean I basically never go there and don't use it, but is there some additional benefit to deactivating? - Ken Sheppardson

No more e-mail from it, at least. And, sure, I could go there and turn off e-mail notifications but why have the account there at all then? I'm still squatting on the name so no one can take it... - Akiva Moskovitz

Deactivating also removes you from the search and, to your friends, it looks like you vanished since your photo/profile no longer appears in their friends' list. - Rochelle

AGAIN???? - WorldofHiglet

I deactivated it once for a couple of months and then returned with everything intact. Did you remove it completely? - Faraz Mullick

To be perfectly honest I can't stand FB either but I have an account there that just sits idle and collects dusts. But as Rochelle mentions deleting it only makes it harder for people to find & get in touch with you. Mine is essentially just there as a placeholder because a lot of times when people go to search for somebody they (for whatever reason) start with Facebook. - Nicholas Kreidberg

Akiva, you should block more apps then - you can't do that on Twitter or FriendFeed. Have you tried the new Live feed? It's very similar to FriendFeeds. Also, have you tried the friend lists on Facebook? It's a much better experience once you start utilizing all that. I wouldn't necessarily blame the UI - I'd blame the community of 300 million+ people. That has its advantages as well. - Jesse Stay

Nicholas, maybe he doesn't want to be found? :) - Rochelle

Hard to blame you, dude. - Josh Haley

Jesse, the issue I have with apps on Facebook is that it's like play whack-a-mole. I hide a dozen and then the next day, there are a dozen more. I want a button that says "hide all apps, forever and always". - Rochelle

Yep, I just lost one of my friends. :( - Christopher Harley

+1 Rochelle, I want a button like that too! - Iain Baker

Jesse, what Rochelle said. If I could use it like I use FriendFeed and Twitter, I would. Also, the UI just seems claustrophobic to me. - Akiva Moskovitz from BuddyFeed

I would agree. I avoided using Facebook all this time until a couple of months ago; around the time FF announced they were moving to Facebook. I don't particularly like the interface of Facebook either, nor do I quite understand anything that's going on. It seems so cluttered and confusing. I much prefer FriendFeed, however, let's be honest, FF probably isn't going to be growing anymore and the future seems to be on the side of Facebook. - Kittyburgers

I can't stand FB either... the only reason I keep the account is that occasionally people find me that wouldn't have otherwise that I would like to get in touch with again. But I'm terrible about all my friend requests piling up. About once every couple of months or so I venture in and add as many as I can stand before being overwhelmed by the clunkiness of it and having to leave. - Her Lindsay-ness

Everyone, note that I had typed 'deactivated' and not 'deleted'. - Akiva Moskovitz from BuddyFeed

Facebook feels like an awkward pair of orthopaedic shoes. - Akiva Moskovitz from BuddyFeed

well you and Scoble are the two extremes now :)) - ffcode

Rochelle, you have to admit it's still better than Twitter - you can't even hide the apps in Twitter - Jesse Stay

FriendFeed would have gotten to the same point if it got to be the size of Twitter - Jesse Stay

and Twitter will only get worse the closer to Facebook's size that it gets - Jesse Stay

is it true that you can't really delete the accounts just put them on ice? - metalerik

metalerik, no, that's not true - Jesse Stay

That is an interesting point. It was been a major issue here in Canada with the privacy commission. That fact that accounts were "put on ice" and not actually deleted was causing a problem for Facebook in this country. Apparently, this issue has been resolved, but it a problem with many social networking sites (dating sites, especially). - Kittyburgers from IM

There are apps IN Twitter? I thought there were just apps that used Twitter... I've never felt overwhelmed going to the Twitter website and looking at my account... - Her Lindsay-ness

http://lite.facebook.com Also the selective hide they've added in helps tons. Finally I can hide Farm Town without hiding my friends or blocking the app. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Lindsay, what's the difference? I still see their updates in my feed, and on Twitter I can do nothing about it. - Jesse Stay

Daniel, thanks - I was going to suggest that as well. - Jesse Stay

*You have a de-activated people on facebook invitation. [Join DAPOF] [Ignore]* - Micah Wittman

DANNNNNG. The only reason I keep my FB account is because it's a nice way of keep in touch with my students and alums through work. That and my ever changing quippy, and witty status updates. - Derrick

Fortunately. You have a choice. I cancel mine, I don't get to talk to anyone anymore. - Clark Baumgartner 蔵明馬武刀 from iPhone

Akiva, I'm with you and Lindsay on the mind numbing UI. Thus far the overall experience when I'm there is just stultifying, and not for any one reason. Can't wait to see the Akiva FB time capsule unboxing 50 years in the future. Oh look at these game invites - somebody somewhere is still waiting with baited breath for my response, how quaint. - Micah Wittman

I want to block all the GD causes ... i just ignore it all - johnpiercy

@Jesse - I have no app updates on my Twitter feed... is that something you have to subscribe to? In Facebook it's total spam but I don't see anything like that on Twitter. I'm not understanding your comparison. - Her Lindsay-ness

Wow Lindsay you haven't gotten any Mafia invites, or "so and so unfollowed you" @mentions, or "thanks for following me" DMs? If you haven't yet, you will. The bigger Twitter gets the more that stuff will appear. - Jesse Stay

So I should just hold off on Friending you Akiva? :D - CW™

@Jesse - I get @replies sometimes... but I don't follow a lot of people and not really obsessed with growing my followers on Twitter so I guess I don't see the "thanks" replies. I have no idea what Mafia invites are. I think Twitter is all about who you follow. - Her Lindsay-ness

Jesse - you can't block apps on friendfeed, but you certainly can set your custom searches to ignore things. I have blocked every damn app there is, but there isn't a way to block all "which pair of Edward Cullen's pants" surveys, because they don't come from an app, each one is a new app all it's own. - Matthew DeVries

Lindsay, you're missing out on why I hate Twitter then. If you bring the same people on Facebook over to Twitter, you'll see Mafia invites. That will happen eventually if Twitter continues to grow. The problem with Twitter is you can't opt out of those. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, you make a fair point about being able to hide individual apps on Facebook when you can't on Twitter but that's still not enough of a sell over the rest of Facebook's endless annoyances. - Akiva Moskovitz from BuddyFeed

Jesse - if you're using vanilla twitter, you're right on all of that, but nobody uses vanilla twitter. All of the Twitter apps have custom searches that you can tune exactly how you want them, and with the grouping feature rolling out within the month, that becomes even more powerful. Just like on Friendfeed, you're not supposed to stick your face into the main firehose. That's in the background. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, and FriendFeed is owned by Facebook now - guess who owns that technology? Not Twitter. :-) - Jesse Stay

Matthew, you can block Mafia dms in TweetDeck or Seesmic? (outside of using SocialToo to do that for you) - Jesse Stay

You don't look at your DM's. You look at a filtered list of your DM's. - Matthew DeVries

The other problem is Twitter doesn't separate apps from non-app data. I can't filter by only status update (you can do that in Facebook - just go over to the left, click "more", and "status updates") - Jesse Stay

Matthew, I can do that with Facebook in TweetDeck/Seesmic as well. I think we're talking about native sites here. - Jesse Stay

I don't think anyone talks about native when it comes to Twitter. Twitter is Twitter apps, and mobile devices. Scoble has said 95% of his twitter activity (sending, sorting, reading, processing) is on his iPhone. - Matthew DeVries

The only thing that bugs me about Twitter is the silliness of the 140 character limit. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, so is Facebook. The advantage Facebook has is its native UI is much more rich than Twitter's native UI so people actually use it. - Jesse Stay

I don't know anyone who uses apps to view facebook. I don't even know what facebook app would do. I know what apps on facebook are, but a facebook viewing app? - Matthew DeVries

I do like Facebook's iPhone client. If there were a similar desktop app, I might be more forgiving. But Facebook's web UI is as horrible as Twitter's but for each their own reasons. - Akiva Moskovitz from BuddyFeed

@akiva the lite.facebook.com is like the iphone app look and feel - Jorge Escobar

I hate myspce more. - Patrick

Matthew, both TweetDeck and Seesmic let you view Facebook. You can set up filters there just like you can for Twitter. I think any lack of filtering in that case is the app's fault. - Jesse Stay

Akiva, be sure to take advantage of the facebook lists - remember you can also drag any list to the top and it becomes your default news feed. Also, as I said to Matthew, there are several Facebook desktop clients, some of them which also support Twitter. - Jesse Stay

Akiva, also, what Jorge and Daniel said. http://lite.facebook.com is much more like the iPhone app. - Jesse Stay

Actually yeah, Lite blocks all apps and annoying nonsense. It's a cleaner looking version of the Facebook I joined when I was in high school. You'll miss chat and instant notifications, but perhaps those things don't mean much to you. - Clark Baumgartner 蔵明馬武刀

Wow, Lite is amazing! That is fan freakin tastic. I will never be asked again which NFC quarterback's jock would make the best emperor of a small caribean country - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, that's the power of Facebook - you have choice :-) - Jesse Stay

Seriously though - try that "Status Updates" filter I mentioned above. It filters by just status update. Drag it and drop it to the top of the lists and it's now your default in Facebook. - Jesse Stay

I'll keep all of these things in mind if I ever do decide to reactivate my account. None of it, however, answers the fact that Facebook offers me nothing that I can't already get somewhere else. - Akiva Moskovitz

I am pretty sure I read that most Twitter users use the Twitter.com site. I'll share the link if I can find it. - Daniel J. Pritchett from iPhone

Annoyingly, they have a hidden trick, too - it'll seem that your account is "inactive", but the very moment you log in, even just to change a setting, without intent to use the service fully, they end up reactivating the account silently. - Tyson Key

RE Twitter, http://tweetstats.com/twitter... says "web" only accounts for 32.6% of... well... of something. - Ken Sheppardson

good for you, Akiva. I'm not sure why I'm still there. - Jim Hearts FF

Totally didn't expect the explosion of comments on this! - Akiva Moskovitz

32.6% of today's tweets. I believe I saw another chart that showed that most tweets come from a hardcore subset of users. Consider that the majority of Tweeters didn't tweet at all yesterday, and then wonder which client they use. Oh hey, here's the study I was talking about earlier: http://friendfeed.com/ricmac... - Daniel J. Pritchett

If I want FB to replace FF somehow--I hate it too. If I approach it as a different thing, it sucks less. YMMV. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Daniel: Heh. So among people who don't actually use Twitter, the web is the most popular client, eh? ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Exactly. The majority of twitter's userbase did not tweet yesterday. http://www.twitstat.com/churn... I believe if Scoble tweets 100 times in a week from Tweetie and I tweet once in a week from Web then we are counted equally in the twitstat Churn chart. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I sorta think the "last 4 tweets" methodology in the study you link is pretty flawed. That includes all users who signed up, posted via the web, then abandoned, no? (I guess I should probably read the whole study). Would the day-to-day client stats vary wildly for some reason? If only 32.6% of the tweets yesterday came in via the web, wouldn't that be true for any arbitrary day and in aggregate? - Ken Sheppardson

Ah, but that's per tweet vs per user... but so is the Rapleaf study. Hm. - Ken Sheppardson

I'd guess that client choice correlates with tweet volume and follow count. If you're only following 5 people and you tweet twice a year you've got little motivation to branch out, no? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yup. BTW, I checked out of this thread earlier and only jumped back in when I noticed your comment re "most twitter users use the twitter.com site" and now that I actually *read* that comment... :-) Yeah, that makes perfect sense, and isn't inconsistent with only ~33% of *tweets* coming in via the web. - Ken Sheppardson

To each his or her own. I use FB to keep in touch with grad school friends and people I meet at academic conferences. Well, that and to chat with my niece online. Her mom and dad control her online access and FB is one of the few places permitted (and even then the adults have password access to her account). And of course, I have a few scrabble games going on there. However, if I had those things elsewhere, I'd probably leave. - Katy S

Katy, I think you bring up a good point: Facebook, for a lot of people, is a site they use by necessity. You're on Facebook because you have people with whom you want to communicate where you can't elsewhere either because they're not there (your niece) or because the convenience factor isn't there (your grad school friends). I think a lot of people feel like you do, too: they'd quit... more... - Akiva Moskovitz

+2 Akiva. I've also had the network effect bite me, as far as encouraging people to switch from Windows Live Messenger to Google Talk, or encouraging people to contact me on FriendFeed or Twitter. I'm no fan of Facebook, either. - Tyson Key

Heh, I don't use a client for Twitter (other than, occasionally, my cellphone)*and* I stick my face in the FF firehose. I like to be unique?? - The Bohemian Penguin from fftogo

Akiva - your last comment sums it up perfectly for me! I only keep a FB account since it seems to be the "default" for so many people I want to communicate with. For some of my friends (the real kind, not just the online virtual sort), FB is the only contact info I have. - Eric Heinzman

Best quote from this thread: Facebook feels like an awkward pair of orthopaedic shoes. - Akiva Moskovitz lol!!! - Carmen

Facebook is a time killer i think..! - ★ Soner Gönül

If so many people, myself included, hate all these crappy little mafia war type requests, then why doesn't facebook just let you click a button and have them all go away forever? Is it that they make too much money off these things? Is it that they don't want to piss off all the developers of this spam? I'd think empowering the user to have a better experience should be higher up on facebooks priority list. - Thomas Hawk from iPhone

TH, I think because only the techies hate the games and other crappy apps. The majority of the 300mill users are non-techies and actually they love those things. I just need to look at the friends and family I have. Only the techies do not regularly spam me with app invites and status updates about their effing farm or mafia crap. - Travis Koger

Opting out of apps forever is a bit of a scorched earth policy and I doubt the FB folks are ready to give up on apps. Maybe FB could offer more granular control of apps - only show me business related apps from this particular friends list; auto-block any games from my high school classmates. This would require some moderation and filing of the apps into categories though. - Daniel J. Pritchett

So did i because it takes my time more than i can imagine. Facebooks sucks. - Mehmet Ali Akyol

I actually *want* to like Facebook, since that's where most of my family and closest friends hang out, but the UI is like a Lovecraftian nightmare, only less warm and cuddly. The funny thing is, I've pretty much dropped my Friendfeed participation to zero in spite of the superior UI and community, simply because I'm spending all my socnet time on my phone, and BuddyFeed is really pretty awful when compared to Tweetie and the Facebook app. - Roger Benningfield

Roger, I hear ya. The iphone Facebook app makes Facebook mildly more tolerable than the web UI and I'm hard at work on a new project to bring Tweetie's goodness to FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/akiva.... If you have any requests, comments, demands, daydreams, etc., please let me know in that thread. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, you mean Tweetie 2 right, because Tweetie 1 was just like all the rest =P. - Travis Koger

I got tweetie 2 yesterday. I tell you. its awesome. - Roberto Bonini

@roberto: Tweetie 2 is indeed awesome. In fact, I'd call if perfect if they'd just steal a couple features from Twittelator. - Roger Benningfield

Travis, yep, yep, Tweetie 2. My /b/. - Akiva Moskovitz

Coooool, as your Friendfeed iPhone Post comment says, Tweetie Goodness. Drop-drag refresh is one of my favourite little funcs on that app, but agree about replication. - Travis Koger

It's becoming trendy to say you hate facebook. Everyone said FB was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it was just them and myspace. I promise you would see the same kind of backlash toward FF if it ever got even half as big as FB. Just beacause you choose to have a minority opinion about something doesn't make you cool, it just makes you elitist. - Jason Williams from iPhone

I've never liked Facebook, Jason, and I've never even had a MySpace account. I was very reticent to get in on the whole social networking thing. I signed on to Facebook and was unimpressed. Twitter was okay. I liked SocialThing a lot but it was FriendFeed that really got the ball rolling for me. Nice try, though, Jason. - Akiva Moskovitz

Facebook hate has been trendy here on FF for as long as FF has existed, Jason. There are legitimate reasons to rebel against social media's version of Microsoft. - Daniel J. Pritchett

You either love it or hate it but you can't do without it once you get entangled. - Bill Masson

With respect to all the opinions, and as much as I resisted creating a Facebook account myself, can one really deny the fact that Facebook, with all it's faults, is really where most of "the action" is these days? - Kittyburgers from IM

@Kittyburgers (love that name, by the way). If you're younger, it's almost, unequivocally, where all the action is. More specifically, those of us that have grown up with it as our primary social network from the start. It's really hard to move all 200 people from high school and 150 people from college to a different network, when they themselves have people that won't move. Where else would they go anyway? - Clark Baumgartner 蔵明馬武刀

Facebooks STOP THE MADNESS!!!!! http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

Thomas: Thank goodness I'm not that popular... :) - Holger Eilhard

Deleted mine a couple of months ago - Michelle Marie Miller

Perfectly demonstrated, Thomas. - Akiva Moskovitz

Seriously? Wow. But how will you play Mafia Wars? Or build your L'il Green Patch or know which character you are in a TV series that you never watch? - Kevin Pedraja

Thomas, I think you just nailed it. - ha3rvey (free hugs!)

Every day I go to Facebook and there is more crap. Today? No, I don't want to "become a fan" of Mafia Hot Models. No I don't want to Vote for Cathy to be the next Panasonic LiHD Insider! No, I don't want to become a fan of "Six Degrees Of Separation - The Experiment". I don't want the "yacht game invitation" or the "zynga poker gift request," etc. I shouldn't have to continuously clear all this spam crap off my page. I should be able to push a single button and have all of it disappear forever. - Thomas Hawk

I've gotten into the habit of blocking everything. Probably hundreds of things by now, and it starts to be come manageable. There are only so many "applications" my friends can use. Some of the other stuff is strictly ads, like "Become a fan of X because Y and Z did," which can't be avoided unless you're using an adblocker (which may or may not block those...,). - Clark Baumgartner 蔵明馬武刀

I did that once. Ultimately I re-activated it but set everything so that basically people can send me messages, and nothing else. Every so often someone from the past pops up & it's worth it, I guess. - Lo

Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes. Uh oh. I hope someone at Facebook isn't pissed at me. - Thomas Hawk

The other thing Facebook should let you block is all friend suggestions from either Facebook or other users. These are a pain too. - Thomas Hawk

the other thing is you should be allowed to block all events out of your immediate area or at least out of California. It's really hard to tell where some of the events that you get invited to are and I can already tell you I'm not going to the social networkers anonymous black tie masquerade party in Miami Florida next month. Why should I even be forced to look at these. Couldn't facebook simply filter out all non California events at my request? - Thomas Hawk

I wasn't speaking about you specifically Akiva so it's wasn't a "try". You have your own reasons to dislike Facebook and some of them may be valid. My point is that, like music or tv, if you don't like a specific band or show you just don't watch/listen. That is not the case here. Instead of just not using Facebook you found it necessary to announce it. Why is that? I'm sure it's a... more... - Jason Williams

Well, Jason, I'm not going to play patty-cake with you when it appears that you're not really here to do anything other than to make assumptions about my motives that would be insulting if any of them were near to true. And, if you know how to change the radio station, then you know how to ignore my feed, too. Take your own advice. - Akiva Moskovitz

Bravo Akiva! - Jorge Escobar from IM

Jason, I think lot of us "announce" things here all the time. Sometimes it's what we ate for breakfast or a good movie that we saw or that the clerk at the DMV was a jerk or whatever. Why assign negative motivations to Akivas post? Do you think it's hip and cool to be an anti-anti-facebooker? If you don't like his post, why not simply hide it? Why the need to announce that you don't... more... - Thomas Hawk from iPhone

HATE ON ME, HATERZ. *eyeroll* - Derrick

I could never hate on _you_ Derrick. - Sparky Crocker

Why is every single person with that name a deaux schnozzle? One guy with that name, an arrogant loaf of a point guard, the other blew his limozine driver's head off with a shot gun and got away with it. - Matthew DeVries

Ehn, I think there were some nuggets in Jason's post but nothing I support wholeheartedly - especially when he's wrong about it being different from Music or TV. You should see indie band elitists or people that are too cool to watch TV. Akiva can do what he wants and Jason can hide it..., - Clark Baumgartner 蔵明馬武刀

Akiva, I did make assumptions about your motives which you never confirmed or denied and so be it. You are entitled to your opinion and if you dislike Facebook and want to announce it fine. I'm not subscribed to your feed nor did I go searching for it but this was on "best of the day" at the time. My beef, besides the whole hate Facebook bandwagon is that it seems unwarranted. The... more... - Jason Williams

Thomas, I get the whole announcing part but I still stand by my interpretation of his motives. I respect you but I would think you could say something more constructive than throwing my words back in my face. He had an opinion and I had an opinion about his opinion. Isn't that how discussion works or is that only if you agree with the mass? - Jason Williams

Clark, thanks but I think I was unclear or you misread me (or maybe I'm misreading you lol). I was trying to say it was no different than Music or TV. What I meant was that some people here were treating it like it was different. - Jason Williams

Jason, first, sorry if I was a bit short with you. My daughter was in surgery at the time an my stress levels were through the roof. At any rate, if I was unable to defend my initial statement, then yeah, I'd probably be ripe for the accusation of just bandwagoneering but I feel like I explained and then defended my reasons for disliking Facebook in my comments. And I posted this mainly... more... - Akiva Moskovitz

Looks like Facebook's listening to us: http://www.pheedcontent.com/click... - Akiva Moskovitz