PS: Facebook, I See What You're Doing.

in the midst of the most unsettling evening of news-watching and numbly-calling and helpless-feeling, i got this laughable missive from facebook (i can blog about this because it's petty, self-contained, and far from home -- unlike what's going on in bombay as i type):

From: Facebook
Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 19:32
Subject: Please reset your email notification settings.
To: [me]

Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

To reset your email notification settings, go to:

http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

listen up, zuckerberg et al. don't boast about having 120 million active users when you can't even save their preferences for not being harassed by your gratuitous email notifications. (i've unsubscribed from most of them, and my inbox is the healthier for it.)

also, just btw, it might have been nice to address me by name, or even as "Dear Facebook user", or something. didn't they teach you manners at harvard?