My mum just got on Bebo. So no problem.

People I went to school with and others I didn't, but knew, K-12 and college, are now on Facebook. They are scattered across the country. So, Facebook is a nice way of keeping up with them. Some of them I haven't seen since 1975, 1978, 1982 and 1987. There are certain ones who are very networked. So, once I one connect with one, then I connect with a bunch.

A few weeks back, one friend from elementary school, informed us he would be on "The Practice" and that we should look for him. He had only two lines. He's a casting director.


An update on Bebo, just so you are informed. AOL's AIM Profiles are now Bebo profiles. You may remember that AOL bought Bebo.

bebo sucks balls, facebook is all over europe.

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I thought Bebo was the European Facebook?

I thought dag's post was not only justified but also ethically acceptable. Not because I was the specific target, but because the target became the site in general. The abuser's use of proxy servers and scripts constituted a DOS attack on the site as a whole. I was the one who originally identified him, and pointed dag to his youtube account. From there, it was nothing to find the bebo profile and other info. At that point, I recommended having the matter turned over to the FBI - they take this kind of stuff very seriously, and generally very professionally. Morning sickness should thank his maker dag did not follow my recommendation, as his life would have become far more inconvenient than having his name and face posted and ridiculed.

As to your specific points Mycroft, I agree that the sister should have been left out of it, but that was an inevitable consequence of community reaction (more on that below). As for the punk's sexuality being questioned and ridiculed, well, he opened the door on that one. Kicked it right down, in fact. Anyone so obviously and obnoxiously homophobic should be ridiculed and on that basis. As far as the public nature of the ridicule, well, like I wrote above, other options could have been far far worse for him.

One thing made clear from the comments on dag's post (and on several others), however, is the nature of mob mentality. It is the single biggest thing that worries me about how this site is run. Blankfist, it's ironic that you worry about a sift king. I have been harassing dag to be more authoritarian with how his site is run. Community input is a great thing, and usually beneficial, but it was that same community action that led to some of the excesses on the morning sickness post and allowed other recent fiascos to occur.

How should such abuses of the site be handled in the future? Abuses of the voting system, comment system, registration, etc. can all be handled without resorting to communal abuse. It can still be just as public. All that is needed is the ability for the owner/operators to submit blog posts which do not allow public comments, except as the submitter sees fit.

TBH - I'm fairly loaded on this late sunday night (I love self-employment!), so I'm probably not expressing my conclusions as well as I could. But the general gist is that this is dag's site. We all agree to abide by certain rules and guidelines and behavioral norms, and if we go outside of those, it is absurd to think that we wouldn't be open to any abuse he cares to lay down. My problem, dag, is when you open that abuse up to the rest of the crowd. Who are we to say what is acceptable on your site? We contribute in many ways, but it's your deal, and you need to keep it that way. Otherwise, as this site grows, you will find yourself being torn between those who would tell you to be a dictator and those who would tell you to let the community decide.

>> ^my15minutes:
oh, and i noticed one little detail that his sister should've left out, if her brother's going for the douchebag hall of fame. tsk tsk tsk.
"Hometown: Imler where i've lived my whole life"
there's only one town in the US, that comes up in a GoogleMaps search.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Imler,+PA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.229218,-78.508301&spn=4.814
134,6.536865&z=7&iwloc=addr&om=0
Imler, Pennsylvania.
a tiny, tiny little town. i'd be surprised if their phone book were thicker than a comic.
can't be all that many McDonald's there, now can there, dag?


>> ^MarineGunrock:
There's only nine. And of those, only three are married couples that are of the age to have young (early 20s) kids.


Wow, look at you guys. The Sift overlord just says "unless someone's Google-fu is better than mine." and you go RIGHT to it. You would do anything for them wouldn't you? He didn't even have to ask, and you went out of your way. I'm not sure if thats sad, or we should all be patting you on the back for a job well done. Nah, I'll just go ahead and say its sad.

oh, and i noticed one little detail that his sister should've left out, if her brother's going for the douchebag hall of fame. tsk tsk tsk.

"Hometown: Imler where i've lived my whole life"

there's only one town in the US, that comes up in a GoogleMaps search.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Imler,+PA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.229218,-78.508301&spn=4.814134,6.536865&z=7&iwloc=addr&om=0

Imler, Pennsylvania.

a tiny, tiny little town. i'd be surprised if their phone book were thicker than a comic.
can't be all that many McDonald's there, now can there, dag?

Hmm.. .I don't think we are. After all, this only exists to make fun of him. Though we should cite some examples of what his thousands of comments were.

[edit] Oh shit! Don't fuck with this guy! He looks like a cold hearted killer!

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I guess he really, really wanted to tell the world about his Rubik's Cube skills. His sister Cara is kind of cute.

fix: http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=5041326249