facebook Q

[arguchik]

can anyone tell me why facebook might be sending me multiple notifications per event? yesterday i got no fewer than 7 notifications telling me that someone had verified information i entered about how we know each other. i'm quite certain the person didn't verify the information 7 times... does this happen to anyone else?

in other news, i took a benadryl to help me sleep last night. i was having a fit of anxiety-induced insomnia, which was odd because my sleep has been quiet and steady for several months now. unfortunately, i waited to take it until 3:30am because i kept thinking i'd be able to get myself to sleep naturally. nope. took the drug. now i don't want to see anything other than the insides of my eyelids for another 3-4 hours. it is 9am. i don't want to keep sleeping!

Comments

[crash66.livejournal.com]

yeah it has glitches.

One night I accidentally hugged everyone on my friends list, which sounds fine except I have work mates on there.

[aquafemme.livejournal.com]

I'm on facebook but not sure how to find you on there. Probably either because I don't know you're real name or I'm just being dense.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

DOH! that might be tricky to explain at the water cooler...

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

nope, you're not dense--you don't know my real name, and i'm not "arguchik" on there. my real name is sharon crowley. :-)

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

It does seem to spam a lot - though 7 sounds like a bit much. Sometimes browsers are slow, and someone might hit a submit button 7 times before realizing that it's just queuing them all up. So maybe.

As for sleep mistakes, we just put two and two together and realized that there's likely a correlation between the fact that our thermostat clock is off by an hour due to a daylight savings error and the fact that our kids still seem to wake up an hour earlier than before we set our clocks back. Doh!

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

aha, yes! rising temperatures will wake a body up every time... (either that or the sound of the furnace kicking on.)

i'm thinking of going in and telling facebook to stop sending me emailed notifications, period. it is out of control. i get at least 2 notifications for every action someone takes in relation to my profile; and earlier today i got 4 emails telling me that someone had edited details about how we know each other. crazy!!!

Speaking of sleep . . .

[malafrena.livejournal.com]

I had a lot of trouble with insomnia every month or couple of months or so until rojonoir pointed out it was cycle-related. Then it took me about a year to believe it. Then I'd have my wired nights and think, "No big deal, it's just my hormones." Just a thought . . .

Re: Speaking of sleep . . .

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

oh, there's no question that there's a hormonal component. i sometimes don't like admitting it, but it's very clear--especially because it has intensified since i went off the pill a couple of years ago.

i always say that at a certain time every month (usually the 2-3 days prior to, and the first day of, my period), i am "primed" to have more intense and emotional responses to things that happen in my life. if something good happens, i will be elated; if something bad happens, i will be in despair; and if there's something stressing me out, i'll have a full-on anxiety attack complete with insomnia.

so what do you do when the insomnia hits you? have you figured out a better way than benadryl to get some sleep?

[asterisk8.livejournal.com]

button-mashing has my vote as well. I'm surprised a site like facebook with a purported focus on usability doesn't disable UI when a form is being processed.