Utterly freaky: a mystery of memory
Ever had one of those moments when you realise a celestial ball has been set in motion, the fates shifting a gear? I have had a recurring dream for some months now, not every night but usually once a week, in which I am struggling to remember the surname of someone who was my friend back in 1987 when I first lived in London, just for a year. I don’t ever recall the circumstances of the dream; all I know, in the dreamscape, is that I must remember this friend’s surname, and from that a full remembrance of other friends associated with him will fall into place. Moreover, I had to find this friend. That’s what I knew or was told in the dream.
tags: dreams, experience, Facebook, friends, memory, weirdWhen is a rose not a rose? When it’s a Facebook app you didn’t install…
Yesterday I noticed I had a new application appear on my Facebook account that I never installed, let alone used—but Send Roses had sent ‘roses’ on my behalf to a number of my contacts, a few of whom told me they, too, had this application added without their consent. They’d sent ‘roses’ to me as well, equally unknowingly.
Send Roses didn’t appear as a box on my profile, or in my list of applications. There were no images of roses to be found anywhere. When I deleted the references to roses from my mini-feed, Facebook offered to delete just the references or the application as well. So I chose to rid myself of Send Roses. I then got an error message informing me that Send Roses could not be removed. My friends, however, said that on their profiles Send Roses had been visible as an application, and could be deleted. But I still don’t know if it’s deleted on my account or still there, invisible and inaccessible.
tags: Facebook, security breaches, unwanted applications
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