i hate running into people from highschool.

awkward moments of my life galore.

sign me up for this.

why you don’t honk at old people

Facebook introduces check-in feature

Facebook executives on Wednesday announced the launch of Facebook Places, which — similar to services such as Foursquare and Gowalla — will allow people to use the GPS on their mobile phones to let friends know exactly where they are.

Facebook Places is available immediately in the United States through the latest version of Facebook’s iPhone app and, for other advanced mobile phones, through the company’s site for advanced mobile devices, executives announced at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Users who wish to announce their location to their friends on Facebook would tap a “check in” button to see a list of places nearby, and then choose the place that matches where they are.

“After checking in, your check-in will create a story in your friends’ News Feeds [on Facebook] and show up in the Recent Activity section on the page for that place,” Places product manager Michael Sharon wrote on Facebook’s blog.

Facebook staff also said the feature will be useful not only to let friends know where they are, but also to learn if their friends are nearby at the same time, and to write down what they are doing at the location and what they think about it — creating a trail allowing friends to see what the writer did there days or even years ago.

When users check into a place, they also can “tag” any Facebook friends who are with them, essentially letting other friends know that the person is there, too. To cut down on the potential for users to falsely tag friends to a place, people can tag friends only if the taggers themselves check in to the location, too.

Sharon, speaking during Wednesday’s announcement, said Places has other safeguards to address potential privacy concerns.

First, check-ins will appear only to users’ Facebook friends as a default, and users can further trim the recipients list to specific friends. Users also can remove check-ins by phone or web at any time, Sharon said.

Facebook said it would make Places available in other countries and on more mobile platforms soon.

Facebook staff said the company planned to let Foursquare, Gowalla and other services enhance their current integration with Facebook. Executives with Foursquare and Gowalla were at Wednesday’s announcement in Palo Alto, previewing plans to ramp up how their users will announce their locations on the social-networking site.

The past year has seen big growth in the relatively new mobile check-in space.

Foursquare, which essentially made its debut in 2009 at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, was one of the combatants in a so-called “Location War” at this year’s festival, going heads-up with Austin-based rival Gowalla.

Since then, Foursquare has become the clear favorite of the two — and a darling of tech media, even as it looks for ways to turn a profit. Boasting a half-million users at the start of SXSW, Foursquare doubled that in about a month then needed only another three months to hit 2 million last month.

On mobile apps like Foursquare, users “check in” at restaurants, bars, movie theaters or just about anywhere else they visit. The idea is twofold — to let friends know what you’re up to, while racking up points and earning virtual badges in the application’s gaming element.

The New York-based Foursquare has begun forging some corporate partnerships and some businesses have started offering discounts and other deals for users who check in frequently.

Facebook, with its half-billion users, represents a massive potential

i can not begin to describe how fucking creepy this is.

Fun Things to do at the Office

1. Remove the jug from the water cooler and drink from it periodically, bragging that you ‘got the last one.’

2. Photocopy things around the office, such as lamps, potted plants, staplers, etc. If someone asks about it, just say ‘You never can be too careful.’

3. Turn your radio up full blast and sing along loudly with the song. Invite others to join you.

4. Pretend to be hypnotized by someone’s screen saver.

5. Go into someone’s office, grab a book from their shelves,
and begin reading it aloud to them. If they interrupt,
give them an evil look.

6. Give a secretary a copy of Hamlet and ask them to proofread it.

7. Use a hole punch to punch holes in all your outgoing mail.
Explain that the holes ‘make it more aerodynamic’.

8. Bring a lawnmower into the office and pretend to mow the carpet.

9. Bring a TV remote control to the office and try to ‘change the channel’
on people’s computers. When it doesn’t work, mumble something about
‘cheap Japanese crap.’

10. Pull a chair up to your window and pretend to be working at a drive-through.

11. Stand at the washroom door carrying a baseball bat,
ask everyone in a low voice if they washed their hands.

12. Gnaw on your mouse, make cat noises,
and lick your hands from time to time.

13. Walk into people’s offices, taking a careful look around.
Talk into your shirt, saying ‘No sign of him yet, Chief.’

14. When the phone rings, answer by saying ‘KBBL, you’re on the air.’

15. Proudly show everyone your calculator and hand out cigars.
Tell them your computer just had a baby.

16. Paint your face blue and start searching around in people’s desk drawers. Ask them if they’ve seen your pills.

17. Create a document that is entirely black and print hundreds of copies.
Use the printouts as wallpaper for your office.

18. Build a fire pit out of cinder blocks in the staff room.Place a stack of firewood in the corner, along with matches, lighter fluid, hot dogs, and marshmallows.

19. Place a row of liquor bottles on your desk, and a sign on your door
which reads ‘NO COVER!’ Announce loudly that it’s happy hour.

20. Get in the elevator and pretend to hold the door open for invisible people.

21.Secretly switch the coffee to decaf. Wait for 4 weeks and then, switch to espresso.

22.Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it

23.Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.

24.Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with prophesy.”

25.Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and scribble their answers in a notebook.
Mutter something about “psychological profiles.”

26.Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice

27.Send e-mail to the rest of the company telling them exactly what you’re doing.
For example: “If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the bathroom.”

28.Every time someone asks you to do something, anything, ask them if they want fries with that.

29.Send e-mail messages saying there’s free pizza or donuts or cake in the lunchroom.
When people drift back to work complaining that they found none, lean back, pat your stomach and say, “oh you’ve got to be faster than that”.

30.Put your trash can on your desk.Label it “IN.”

31.Hi-Lite your shoes. Tell people you haven’t lost them as much since you did this.

32.When someone says “have a nice day”, tell them you have other plans.

i want to walk around doing this to people.

dumb and dumber trailer done inception style.

awesome and awesomer.

i’m baaaaaack! i’ve had a few things on my mind from my trip that i’d like to share with ya’ll.

a.) the moving sidewalk at the airport is there so that you can walk faster to your next flight, not so that your lazy ass does not have to actually walk.

b.) having sex in your car should only be done at night, and in a corner…not in broad daylight and in the open.

c.) the yankees suck. more so, the yankees’ fans suck.

d.) the sequel to, “i know what you did last summer,” should not be, “i still know what you did last summer.” it should be, “i know what you did the summer before last.”