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BA on FB? OMG!

So all my loyal droogs know I have a Facebook account. If you have one, add me!

But BABloggee Tomas Vorobjov has taken the next step: he’s created an app which you can install on your FB sidebar which will display synopses from the last few posts on the BABlog.

I try to avoid most Facebooks apps because they seem useless, or worse, clutter up my page. But how can I resist this one? Now, a warning: don’t let this distract you from actually coming to the site! If you go to the site itself you can comment on the posts, and I encourage that. Join the club!

Speaking of which, I see that Brian Cox has a Facebook page now too. How soon will it be before he passes me in number of friends? I bet like a week. Sigh.

Edited (June 23) to add: I got back from TAM 6 to find 400+ friend requests! Wow!

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June 19th, 2008 2:00 PM by Phil Plait in About this blog, Cool stuff | 18 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

18 Responses to “BA on FB? OMG!”

  1. 1.   hale_bopp Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    I added it a couple of days ago…you are behind the curve :)

  2. 2.   Lawrence Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    Isn’t that a sign of the Apocalypse?

  3. 3.   Daniel Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    Yay! I just added you.

  4. 4.   Hypatia Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    I added but it doesn’t seems to update on line, am I missing something?

  5. 5.   Michelle Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    Facebook is evil. ¬_¬
    Myspace is evil…

    And hopefully they’ll go away in the dark like Livejournal did!

  6. 6.   Pop Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    Uhh… I thought we were all adults here. You don’t have to resort to spelling out words “BA on FB? OMG!” Just say what you mean. If you’re trying to cover up using “bad” words by spelling, I’m on to your trick. I’m going to check with my spell checker and see just what you are trying to sneek past me.

  7. 7.   Rahne Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    But we still love you Phil!! <3 <3

  8. 8.   Nat Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Nice!
    Hmm…. I can inspire all my friends to read it….. nice indeed :)

  9. 9.   Michael L Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    I LOL’d @ pop. :)

  10. 10.   shane Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    Hey Pop, YAOTM. BTW FWIW IMHO ROFLMAO. CUL8R.

  11. 11.   Yoo Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    I didn’t know you had a Facebook account. But now that I know, I cannot help but become even more of a loyal droog by adding you!

  12. 12.   Pop Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Sorry shane, but I don’t speak or read Polish (?) Haw, Polish, I made a funny. Of course I know that’s reely Geek. Wot a W00tz.

  13. 13.   Copache Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 12:11 am

    Droogs? Are you a Megadeth fan, BA?

  14. 14.   claschxtreme Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Hmmm, it’s hard to compete with a guy who can put Rockstar and High Energy Physisist working at LHC in the occupation field, that’s like a million cool points.

    But you’re still our shiny star, “The” Phil Plait.

  15. 15.   John Phillips, FCD Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    What’s facebook?

  16. 16.   quasidog Says:
    June 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    John, facebook is just another ‘myspace’ thing where people compete to see how many friends they have and type messages that nobody reads.

    BTW, didn’t Brian Cox have a facebook page a fair while back, not just recently ?

  17. 17.   Cal H Says:
    June 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    quasidog, that’s not true. I read those messages I send to myself all the time! And I’ve got so many myspace friends I’m about to cause an integer overflow.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go cry myself to sleep.

  18. 18.   quasidog Says:
    June 21st, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    lol Cal H

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