Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool

nk497 writes "Facebook has added a new tool that brings together conversations and photos between friends onto a single page, but — as usual — has crossed the creepy line. Not only does clicking the See Friendship tool let users view photos, comments and events shared between themselves and their friend, it also offers a search tool to do the same between any two mutual friends, making it easy to see everything any two people have ever said to each other Facebook. As usual, the site should have tested the function out on their users first, with one saying: 'I've always wanted this! And yes, I'm a creepy stalker.' Also, as usual for Facebook, all users are automatically opted in, and there's currently no obvious way to turn it off."

RAWK

[mark72005]

Sweet, this will make it much easier to jump to conclusions about which of my friends are secretly bumpin' uglies

Solution

[papasui]

Delete your Facebook account like I did. Although I'll admit that the first week of not knowing what crops my friends were growing was a little hard on me..

I think Seinfeld says it best...

[Chameleon Man]

To reference an episode of Seinfeld...

GEORGE: Ah you have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world, then George Costanza as you know him, Ceases to Exist! You see, right now, I have Relationship George, but there is also Independent George. That’s the George you know, the George you grew up with — Movie George, Coffee shop George, Liar George, Bawdy George.

JERRY: I, I love that George.

GEORGE: Me Too! And he’s Dying Jerry! If Relationship George walks through this door, he will Kill Independent George! A George, divided against itself, Cannot Stand!

Re:Nonissue

[clone53421]

Agreed.

Of course, all this information is already available to me. I could click around the site and find everything said between my mutual friends by sifting through their accounts. But that would take ages, and eventually — hopefully — I’d either get bored or ashamed of creeping on my friends. This makes it possible to stalk in seconds.

“Hopefully”? Bored or ashamed? Seriously?

He greatly underestimates the ability of a bored stalker to be creepy...

Re:Aren't we over Facebook yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't know what jump the shark means. Stop saying it and looking like a fool.

Re:Nonissue

[Anonymous Coward]

it now takes 2 seconds to do with Facebook's new tool what used to take 2 days

I'm alarmed that you have such detailed knowledge on the time it takes to stalk on Facebook.

Re:Oh, I think I see the problem

[Anonymous Coward]

Facebook is a nudist colony.

Yeah! It's like Hustler with fat chicks.... YUCK!

Re:Put this on the list

[edmicman]

Unless you *sell* the sour grapes....oooo an idea!

1. Find sour grapes
2. ???
3. Profit!

Re:Put this on the list

[HomelessInLaJolla]

I am surrounded by sour grapes--they are the other homeless who resort to begging and panhandling and chasing around on the homeless treasure hunt to go here and get this and go here to get that and go someplace else to get more and still have nothing worthwhile by the end of the day.

So... exactly how do I profit? I do not have sour grapes. I did exactly what the parent poster indicated,"Well, I am better off without those jerks anyway"... but I am still homeless and everyone else in the world, eating their own sour grapes and unhappy with the jerks they work for, is completely against open charity.

So, again, exactly how should I go about profitting from all of the sour grapes around me? I, personally, have very good grapes--nobody wants to pay for them but, since I am homeless, everyone thinks they are entitled to my grapes for free.

Eat my grapes!!!