bit naughty of them, but i'm sure they'll add an option to turn it off.

Hi Rawky, how's things?

 

Erm... well, not the best at the moment. Just waiting to hear on some news, which should hopefully make things better.

Oh dear, sorry to hear that. Hope it improves soon.

Huh, I don't have that... thought it was cos I hadn't said in a relationship with 'boyfriend's name' so I went to look at my brother's page. Him and his fiancee don't have a couple's page either

As you can see, I took it from Yahoo and as I don't do FB I can't vouch for its validity. Just took it at face value from Yahoo.

 

Maybe they're releasing it in America first?

This summer, Facebook made changes to its messaging system which showed other users that people had seen their messages, even if they had not replied.

I hadn't noticed that!

Some of my friends who are in relationships/married seem to have it and some don't

 

I don't think it's FB at it again.....it's the media trying to twist things and wind people up again. 

 

You are in complete control of whether you announce your relationship on FB.....so therefore in control of whether you want this extra page as an extension of that, and as Rawky said, FB usually give you an option to opt out of these things. Even if they don't, all the stuff on the page can only be stuff that you've posted on your own pages anyway, so does it really matter? 

 

FB is free to use, and totally optional, so it does annoy me how the media try and portray it as something we all at the mercy of. 

 

The message thing is slightly annoying though. Good job they don't have that feature on mobile text messages! Pretending I haven't looked at my phone is how I keep dodgy members of the family at arms length!  

 

 

 

 

Agreed Ducky, there's no law saying that you have to announce your relationship status on fb or be on fb at all for that matter! And I was q pleased to be alerted to the msg thing, I was a bit p'd off that someone, (who isn't really a big fb user) hadn't replied to a msg from nearly a week ago and now having looked I see it's because he hasn't read it yet

I don't like the message thing purely because my son uses it as a sneaky way to see if I'm online.  He nags me to come and chat when I'm busy working! So I now have to be very careful not to click on the FB message until I'm ready to talk  

that couples page only comes up if you click on the gear icon next to any of your friends/OH's on their profile page etc. .it's not just couples and all it shows is the interaction you and someone on your friends list have had but on one page rather than dotted all over with others interspersed. .  that's how I read it anyway [I can double check by getting in a relationship with my cat I suppose] ..  there is a friendship status page which is a  similar looking  type thing as well or it may be the same thing... . ultimately there is no loss of privacy. .

 

and FB has great advantages if your friends and family are spread far and wide, you can share so much stuff with each other together and chat together over internet etc.. naysayers should stop reading all the negative stuff and start reading some of the positives about it.. as has already been mentioned, you are in complete control of your own privacy on there and with whom you choose to share info with.. if it still isn't your cup of tea fair enough but it isn't as unsecured as half these articles make out in fact it's probably a lot more secure than forums which most of us have been posting on for years..  

 

I have a couple or three friends who have closed their FB accounts, also found out tonight that my niece had too.

 

I am contemplating closing mine as I only go on four or five times a month.

 

I appears to me that FB are trying whatever they can to keep themselves "fresh" now that they have shareholders to satisfy. Personally I think it would not hurt for more people to close accounts.

They do have it on BBM messenger!

I like that feature....at least you know if someone just hasn't seen your message yet instead of wondering if they are just ignoring you.

Article on the F*c*book "couple" pages here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...cebook_couples_page/

 

As El Reg points out: if you upload content to F*c*book, they own it, and can therefore do what they like with it...

Yup, NOTHING you put on there is yours and EVERYTHING you put on there is theirs.

And it's nothing to do with listening to the negatives and ignoring the positives. The way sometimes FB is portrayed is as if it is the only possible way to communicate and connect to people, near or far.

I can't see that link, what's the story?

for some on low incomes it is a good cheap way to share stuff with friends/family far and wide and keep in contact and see what they are up to..

 

thing is if you don't use it you can't really know exactly how insecure it really is. . you don't post/upload stuff you don't want out there.. you don't say stuff you don't want out there... it's about common sense really same as with forums..

It's really not rocket science ...the simple answer is think at least twice before pressing the * post button* and committing your thoughts to the interwub, be it FB or anywhere else ...and always make sure there is a delete button

Essentially, F*c*book have re-jigged their "Friendship Pages".

Now TBF, Friendship Pages have been around for a while, and are just a way of showing all interactions between you and any given friend. The main change is that there is now an automatic "Couples" page:

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/53...for-Friendship-Pages

 

Starting today, we're introducing a new layout for friendship pages. Friendship pages combine posts, photos and events that you and another person have shared. Click the gear menu at the top of a friend's timeline to see a friendship page. If you've listed yourself as "in a relationship" with someone, you can also visit facebook.com/us to see the friendship page you share with that person.

That's as may be....but where do these low income people get the money to afford computers and internet access in the first place? I know there are internet cafés and library accounts, but that sort of negates the frequency and cheapness.

Ohhhh, I'm glad I'm going out for the evening Fluffers, coz I expect a full scale Olly rant coming

 

... and I would agree with her

I'm not even bothering Rexi... waste of typing time... and all of that from someone who is in the 'caring' profession if I am not mistaken

 

*goes to stoke my fire ready to cook my bread and dripping for dinner  cos with being on a low income having a cooker is probably a luxury too, as is having a PC to enable me to shop for my groceries instead of foraging for them cos I can't actually go out to get them either way.. and PC's are apparently luxuries yet every child has to do homework/schoolwork via them etc..  wanders off shaking head in despair at the ignorance of some people *

that ^^^^^ was my polite reply. .

 

My initial response was oh FFS just STFU and stop being so pedantic

 

Must admit that one is a lot shorter than my polite one. .maybe I should have gone for that one first..

forgot to mention I need go nick me a carrier pigeon [cos I couldn't afford to keep and feed any of my own]  to send off letters to my friends and family abroad ...

 

I'll shut up now

It'll be deleted I think 

 

defo shutting up now ............ in a bad mood today. .probably shows. .

was going to add a reply but i'll just agree with olly

To be frank, if peeps wish to misconstrue things I couldn't really care.

Definitely and it's much more private if you set your privacy settings high as I do. And you can block people, upload photos and pm for free without being a VIP Oh and remember the time on here that they accidentally gave out our personal email addresses to all and sundry? If I remember correctly by way of apology we were offered a free VIP upgrade

I still don't trust or like FB given what I've read and heard about it 

When did they give out our email addresses?

So Fluffs, you accept that it has it's uses as stated above?  People can chose to spend what money they have on whatever they wish, for some that will be on computers/internet. Personally I'm not a big user of fb but I certainly find it one of the v useful web based means of chatting/sharing stuff with family who live abroad, and far, far cheaper than the telephone.

It was ages ago Baz, when they changed groups to channels and anyone who had a group got access to the emails of anyone in that group https://www.gagajoyjoy.com/disp...8215453563841/page/1

Oh ok , thanks ... That's why I never heard about it

Baz, you posted on that thread

Ooooo I'm so glad I found that thread I can get my Pleb avi back

Did I ? I can't see it .. It says page not found ... Probably cos I'm on the app .... But I certainly don't remember it ...

I'm not sure what was misconstrued Fluffs? You were questioning where people on low incomes got the money from for computers/internet No?