Topic: Okay Facebook names, this has reached a point and we need to stop (Read 5231 times)

Jace · « **on:** 12 Mar 2011, 20:07 »

Waviiboiinook Makinluvtadamoney Yadiggz.
JadeSuperbad LykMcloven Amani
Tamikaluvbeinga Johnson
Littlemssweetheart Smile

This is a small sampling.
THESE ARE NOT NAMES

JD · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 20:21 »

Papersatan · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 20:22 »

I am friends with a "sucha Fukinlady"

sean · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 20:32 »

one of my friends from school is currently "precious dude-thing" and im currently "seanithan tiberius kimiecik"

also, just saying, i still hate single serve coffee machines.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:17 »

it's all about the middle names where i live.

Kyle Futuremalemodel Stuckey
Shanika Ohsobeautiful Haynesworth

Also, there's a kid named Chris Echols whose name is, "Jc Willhaveuhooked."

JD · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:20 »

How do you do it anyway? I wanna rename myself as Seymour Asses.

sean · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:26 »

simple, just click the account button in the top right corner and go to account settings. the first option should be for yr name, where you can change it after clicking one more thing.

JD · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:47 »

Boooo automated system denied it

tania · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:53 »

WHY THE FUCK WON'T IT ALLOW TANIA ROCKET

THIS IS BULLSHIT

sean · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:56 »

yeah thats the only thing about fb name changes, it acts like a cunt for no good reason. for the longest time i would of preferred my fb name to be sean k. rather than sean kimiecik but it would never allow me to do so.

fuck you mark get that stick out of yr ass

JD · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:56 »

Welp they accepted Boners as my last name. Now to wait until my mom discovers it and goes into a fit.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:57 »

Protip: Stop being friends with knobs

sean · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 22:00 »

JD please tell me you still made yr first name seymour

JD · « **Reply #13 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 22:50 »

I have now

KvP · « **Reply #14 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 23:35 »

What a world, in which Tania can't give herself a quaintly amusing surname but I can marry a Roland TB-303 synthesizer.

tania · « **Reply #15 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 23:47 »

FUCKING BULLSHIT

Ã¶de · « **Reply #16 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 03:53 »

I briefly considered naming myself Doctor Money.

Lupercal · « **Reply #17 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 13:58 »

Not as bad as myspace where people had every symbol that they could scrounge from Word in their username. Damn glad those days are over. I can deal with people having ridiculous middle names if I go without "& she fakes her smile", "..&[&]L A U R 3 N", or whatever. Almost as bad as gamertags. Feel a little bit sick after revisiting myspace. Horribly full of flash and misspelled things.

snalin · « **Reply #18 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 05:32 »

I don't use my real last name because I went to 10th grade with some really terrible people, and I didn't realize when I got facebook that you can just... not friend someone and they can't really do anything about it.

I'm one of total three with my first name on FB, so it doesn't really help in any way whatsoever.

michaelicious · « **Reply #19 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 06:23 »

I tried to change my name to Michael Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Roberts but it was too long.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #20 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 06:35 »

I'm going to change my facebook name to NOTHING when I DELETE IT FOREVER.

Only a few months to go now! I'm psyched!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #21 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:14 »

Why are you waiting?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #22 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 12:00 »

I'm being literally forced to use facebook by university; our final degree show is being almost entirely organised via it.

Lines · « **Reply #23 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 13:38 »

That's lame. A girl in one of my classes had to sign up for Facebook because the prof was posting shit on there in some group page or whatever.

Professors, we have this website called Blackboard. Please use that like you're supposed to. No one cares about your Facebook.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #24 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 13:41 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 14 Mar 2011, 06:35

I'm going to change my facebook name to NOTHING when I DELETE IT FOREVER.

Only a few months to go now! I'm psyched!

Dibs on the name, I got plans for this one.

bwa ha ha ha ha

Lines · « **Reply #25 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 13:44 »

Hey Tania, it let me change my name to Lindsey Rockit, after it rejected Lindsey Rocket. Just thought you might want to know...

squawk · « **Reply #26 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:32 »

it may be homophone but man it's just not the same

someone make up a new name for me i'm bored

imagist42 · « **Reply #27 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:35 »

Anna Banana?

squawk · « **Reply #28 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:41 »

imagist42 · « **Reply #29 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:44 »

sorry

valley_parade · « **Reply #30 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:49 »

Eris · « **Reply #31 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 15:01 »

Quote from: michaelicious on 14 Mar 2011, 06:23

I tried to change my name to Michael Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Roberts but it was too long.

My uncle went to a catholic school, and when he was going for his confirmation the principal (father? I don't know how they work) was lamenting that no one was taking their school's saint's name as a confirmation name. So my uncle said he would. His name is now Patrick Kevin John the Baptist de la Salle Clarke.

My uncle is an arsehole.

JD · « **Reply #32 on:** 15 Mar 2011, 22:05 »

Haha my parents thought I got hacked hahaha

calenlass · « **Reply #33 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 11:09 »

Quote from: Linds on 14 Mar 2011, 13:38

Professors, we have this website called Blackboard. Please use that like you're supposed to. No one cares about your Facebook.

Blackboard is pretty much just as terrible as facebook, especially because it is marketed as an educational platform, so teachers who don't know how to use computers can have a "website". WebCT, which is the same thing, is what the Georgia University system has been using for 8 or 9 years and it has never changed, not even for updates. It uses unapproved security certificates, pop-ups, tons of cookies, java, and often malfunctions and crashes browsers (or even computers). There is no real way to contact a human being about any problems you might have. It is disorganised and sloppy. Please do not encourage anyone to use blackboard.

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #34 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 11:47 »

I dunno, as someone who's used WebCT as a student and Blackboard as a student, instructor, and grader, I find Blackboard significantly better: more intuitive, less clunky, and better supported. My undergrad university used WebCT, and I remember it being down all the fucking time--especially annoying when I was taking an online class entirely through WebCT.

Except for one or two "scheduled maintenance periods" (usually at, like, 3-5 a.m. or something), I don't think I've ever seen Blackboard down.

And really? No better than Facebook? Facebook doesn't let you give quizzes, post pdfs (at least not all in one easy-to-find folder), create a class Wiki, submit and view grades securely, and have students turn in papers--both to the instructor and to each other (Blackboard groups and the digital dropbox).

Blackboard's marketed as an educational platform... because that's what it is. Not saying it doesn't have problems or drawbacks or whatever. And there's no excuse for instructors who refuse to learn how to use the tools well. But it's a hell of a lot better than Facebook for a classroom.

calenlass · « **Reply #35 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 13:27 »

I mean, I guess. I am pretty sure I could do everything that Blackboard does with Facebook. Either way, I don't particularly care for either. Posting your syllabus on a simple black-text-on-white-background html page is not that hard, and if that's all you use WebCT for (like a few professors I have known), there is no difference.

Lines · « **Reply #36 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 14:53 »

Our Blackboard isn't buggy, has never crashed or crashed my computer, and it has been updated regularly, so I have no idea what you're talking about. Pretty much every class I've been in (minus some studios) have required Blackboard. You HAVE to check the email attached to it, because profs send out assignments, announcement, etc. with it and not checking your attached email will probably get you an F. It's a university requirement, I'm going to use it. But requiring the use of Facebook on top of that is stupid and pointless and I would not want to do that. My personal life has nothing to do with my academic life and unless I'm actually friends with a professor, I'm not going to add them on Facebook, for the same reason I don't want to add my employers.

I guess you could do without Blackboard, but why? It's a good resource. I can email everyone in my class if I don't actually know their emails. We have forum discussions. I have an easy place to get syllabi and assignments. There are resources there. I can turn in assignments and take quizzes. You can't do half of these things on Facebook at all and the other half, you'd have to be in a group or be friends with people, which is something I am not comfortable with and students shouldn't be forced to do it.

Some art shows are promoted through Facebook, but that's a networking tool that the galleries and the students who are in those shows have decided to do and I find that acceptable. It's just another way to advertise shows and doesn't cost anything. Requiring students to have a Facebook to organize a show, though, just sounds dumb. It's a social networking site. Requiring its use in a class just because a lot of people use it makes it unfair for those who do not wish to use it.

calenlass · « **Reply #37 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 15:08 »

You only have to use it because it is what the teachers are instructed to use, so like, you wouldn't be required to use it if they had something else to send emails with.

Also, I can email everyone in my school with my school email, which is powered by google. I just have to start typing and it gives me a list of people with those letters in their names. Anyway, my point is that there are better things than blackboard, and there are better things than facebook, but I guess they are just not as popular.

Patrick · « **Reply #38 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 16:21 »

Popularity of a medium is about 90% of it's functionality.

Lines · « **Reply #39 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 19:55 »

No offense Katie, but I don't care. I don't care either way about blackboard, I don't care about how to email people, I just strongly disagree with using a social networking site for academics. That's it.

McTaggart · « **Reply #40 on:** 17 Mar 2011, 08:15 »

Blackboard annoys the hell out of me, but at least it's actually an educational tool. It's got worlds more functionality for teaching and learning and it's not inherently full of distractions. Yes, there's no consistency in how different lecturers utilise the space and tools they've got but there's nothing enforcing consistency on facebook either (aside, I guess from the lack of tools to use differently). Blackboard can also integrate with the rest of the university's software and the setting up and joining classes can be automated so that you know that everyone's on the same page. I hope like fuck that facebook doesn't let you do this.

Facebook's also not controlled by the university. They have no say in the policy and privacy decisions Facebook makes, and Facebook has a habit of changing that kind of thing constantly. They also change their functionality and ui really often. It's not stable nor reliable enough to agree to use it long term.

valley_parade · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 15:46 »

I want a stupid facebook name now. But I am fairly sure that it won't let me use Lshak Espeare Thrustbottoms.

imagist42 · « **Reply #42 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 15:48 »

I

'd.

valley_parade · « **Reply #43 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 16:06 »

Yeah ya did.

Spluff · « **Reply #44 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 16:15 »

how exactly does one t-rex anyway

it had better not involve opening the door, getting on the floor

Patrick · « **Reply #45 on:** 22 Mar 2011, 02:25 »

I imagine it involves stomping on everything you see

Ikrik · « **Reply #46 on:** 22 Mar 2011, 03:23 »

while also flailing your humorously lengthed arms.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #47 on:** 22 Mar 2011, 15:26 »

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Author Topic: Okay Facebook names, this has reached a point and we need to stop (Read 5231 times)