>> Man invites his 700 Facebook friends to a meetup, ends up drinking alone. “I would learn, when I asked some people who didn’t show up the next day, that ‘definitely attending’ on Facebook means ‘maybe’ and ‘maybe attending’ means “likely not.’” (via 3qd) Oddly, I’m now v. tempted to try out this experiment with my 450 “friends.”

>> Man wants fewer Facebook friends, desires new Facebook app: Fade Utility. “Untended Friends would gradually display a sepia cast on the picture, a blurring of the neglected profile—perhaps a coffee stain might appear on it or an unrelated phone number or grocery list. The individual’s status updates might fade and get smaller.”

>> Man sees connection between Facebook and steroids, though this following quote will not illuminate said connection: “Krebs sees social networks facing a decidedly human problem. They need to find a compromise between the seemingly infinite number of network connections and the limited interaction capacity of human beings. After all, a person doesn’t need to remember every person he’s ever met, unless he is Bill Clinton.”

>> Man enlists team to find out if texting conveys real emotions. “The team found not only that each participant could accurately assess their partner’s mood, but that those paired with someone who had watched Sophie’s Choice felt sadder than before the chat.” The question here is: Do Facebook status updates have the same emotional effect?

Update: Man stabs wife to death over Facebook update. (via Fimoculous) I guess that answers my last question. However, the fact that the dude was emotionally unstable, drunk and coked up prolly also played a hand here.

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