Steve Ganz discovered that facebook is ageist. It appears that once you hit 30 the option to be looking for ‘whatever i can get’ or ‘Random play’ disappear! And if you were already on facebook with those selected and turn 30, it automatically changes your settings to just ‘Friendship’ without notifying you. Stunning. Surely this is a violation of privacy in the sense that it alters the way you have chosen to represent yourself? If you are not there for friendship and want to be known as a sleazy pervert who only wants Random play and definately no friends, wouldn’t you be upset to be mis-represented as a harmless friendly person?

Anyone know the reasons for Facebook’s thinking behind this?

I was just faced with a Twitter holding page. I quite like it.

It’s quite nice – I like the bird and the friendly explanation. It did however, redirect me to my Twitter homepage, and not to the page I was originally trying to access…

I don’t normally write about my work here, but thought I’d mention that I just published my mock-up of the SPLASH project on the University of Sussex SPLASH project blog: http://splashproject.blogspot.com/2007/10/mock-up.html

Please comment on the project blog itself.

No, it’s just International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Pirates were cool in like, 2004. Now it’s all about bandits in my opinion. Talk Like a Bandit Day anyone?