Love with a drop-down menu, Facebook


	Love with a drop-down menu, Facebook

wildcat

12-10-2007 5:06 AM

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facebook, social networking, virtual relationship

wildcat says:

fascinating: being "Facebook-worthy" confers a status on a relationship.

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12-10-2007 5:43 AM

syncopath

they had found love in a college dorm was a no-brainer.

right. Love is simple ...... -))

12-10-2007 7:36 AM

syncopath

4 today possible pleasure of a poem & 4 these young students not 2b so sure that love is only "simple" - i here send a short poem by Jorge Luis Borges:

Neither the intimacy of your look, your brow fair as a feast day,
nor the favor of your body, still mysterious, reserved, and childlike,
nor what comes to me of your life, settling in words or silence,
will be so mysterious a gift
as the sight of your sleep, enfolded
in the vigil of my arms.
Virgin again, miraculously, by the absolving power of sleep,
quiet and luminous like some happy thing recovered by memory,
you will give me that shore of your life that you yourself do not own.
Cast up into silence
i shall discern that ultimate b...

12-10-2007 11:01 AM

haraya

Check out today's xkcd.

12-10-2007 11:31 AM

jonhatespigeons

I de-activated my facebook account last week when I realised the only people on it were those who I didn't really give a stuff about, nor them about me. All my close friends became obscured in the mist of pointless "OMG... C U L8r lol...XXXXXXX"
Perhaps I've become old and cynical, though I suspect it's just lazy!

12-10-2007 10:30 PM

egoldstein

So, posting this comment from Facebook using our soon-to-be released Facebook app...if all goes as expected, it will be live within 24 hours

12-11-2007 1:47 AM

haraya

I'm so excited... and I just can't hide it.

Yaaaay! Yay!

12-11-2007 12:37 PM

egoldstein

me too Haraya...honestly counting down the hours. We're just about ready to go...

12-12-2007 3:46 AM

dirish

what doe all this even mean?
I'm sorry, but I'm old and senile and I don't even know what a face book is- does this mean I don't exist?
Wow-

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