A news-feed patent... awarded to Facebook?

[flippyshark]

*sigh* I've read this story twice, and I don't understand what it means.

I do know that Facebook was attractive to me when I signed up a little over a year ago because it seemed very simple and straight-forward - recent changes seem to have made it more complicated, less streamlined, and more daunting. (It's still not as ugly to look at as MySpace, though.)

I don't really "get it" yet, though. Someone tell me again why I need to be constantly updated on imaginary farm animals that my friends now have.

Sorry for this mostly irrelevant post.

[MouseWife]

No post is ever irrelevant!

LOL I love MyFarm, FarmVille. Sorry, I don't have a garden or a farm and kill every plant I've ever tried to grow. I've let few crops wither.

But I digress.

My daughter just recently signed up. She is such a curmudgeon!!! She said she isn't accepting certain people as friends because she KNOWS they just like to see what she's doing and to post stupid comments.

She then said 'WTF with all of these stupid farms and games? I don't want to know about this stuff and it takes up my f'in page!!!'

Well, what ya do...what I do. Say you have a friend who plays that {like me}. When it posts that I've found a green calf or a mystery egg, click the button on the side that says 'hide'. You'll get the choice to hide me or to hide that application. Done! Also, check your settings.

If people send you invites to stupid things all of the time, you can click either 'ignore this' or ignore all invites from this person.

You can delete posts from your wall.

Fun stuff. The 'Mexican Word of the Day'. Too damn funny. Hubster says it is racist but we are Mexican. I so get it. It es'plains a lot, Lucy!!

The bad thing is I waste too much time on those dang farms. Trying to cut back. I'm using too much time playing alone than 'socializing' which is the point, right? I may as well be a 15 year old locked in my room playing XBox with invisible people.