Comments on: Facebook hookup anomaly

By: k4rbn83d

k4rbn83d — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:05:20 +0000

Yeah where I come from “we hooked up” means we got together for sex so that would fall under the offensive for some. As a web designer sometimes you forget to remove a a link from all possible places so sometimes you remove it from one but others linger. But more likely is that this is a database issue. Sometimes you can’t take away a field without assigning to something else so this maybe something they are working on.

By: CheyenneJack

CheyenneJack — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:21:12 +0000

It was probably something deriving from the old high school adage where a guy is like “Sure, I totally hooked up with her, when obviously he did not”. I suppose this started happening on FaceBook as well and embarrassing younger people, possibly causing FaceBook to face some kind of 3rd party harrassment charge.

It is still there, because they probably just removed the index choice of that being an option in their database but left the historical text written choice. That way they don’t disturb historical reference data for those that liked it, but they also don’t support juvenile harrassment.

By: Beth Granter

Beth Granter — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:45:38 +0000

Why would it disturb some people in one area of the interface and not in the other? My point was that the ‘hookup’ option is now only available through an indirect route, but it’s still there, so I doubt they removed it for being offensive or they would have removed it totally surely?

I can see online people still on Facebook so I’m not sure what you mean.

By: bilog

bilog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:04:12 +0000

maybe it was disturbing some people of some cultures, some religions, some countries. what you mean “hooked up” ?

by the way we cant see the online people anymore on facebook. did you notice?

By: David Stone

David Stone — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:01 +0000

No “hooking up” for me.