The FACEBOOK Thread

[Quietstorm]

Facebook has a new feed feature which allows your friends to see every move you make while on the website. Everyone is able to view who became friends with who, who's broken up with who, what did you write on so and so's page to new groups you've joined . Alot of folks are now reacting to this by joinging the "Facebook Sucks" group, which links to a petition page that is now at 3,000 something signatures.

For those you who use it, or maybe even those who don't use it, what's your opinon? If Myspace was the do this it would be all over the news. And we all know that colleges are filled with stalkerish freaks, so it doesn't matter if you have an .edu e-mail addy or not.

btw, The user can't disable the feature, or so it seems right now anyway.

 

[ampersand]

Yeah it pissed me off greatly today. The only solution I could find was to delete all of the stuff in my "Mini-Feed".

 

[KingOfDreams]

Yeah, the new facebook format is pretty creepy.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Facebook has a new feed feature which allows your friends to see every move you make while on the website. Everyone is able to view who became friends with who, who's broken up with who, what did you write on so and so's page to new groups you've joined . Alot of folks are now reacting to this by joinging the "Facebook Sucks" group, which links to a petition page that is now at 3,000 something signatures.

For those you who use it, or maybe even those who don't use it, what's your opinon? If Myspace was the do this it would be all over the news. And we all know that colleges are filled with stalkerish freaks, so it doesn't matter if you have an .edu e-mail addy or not.

btw, The user couldn't disable if they wanted to, or so it seems right now anyway.

Key difference from Myspace. One, only friends can view your page. So you have the option of keeping whoever you want (even friends) from knowing who you are. Two, you need a college e-mail to join which cuts out that lovely 40-year old molestor demographic. Finally, you need to attend to same college in order to view anything but their picture, name, and the college which they attend (unless you are friends)

 

[Boom]

Doesn't really bother me. I accept people I know, send messages to people I know, read messages from people I know.

 

[U.S War Machine]

I want a facebook

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Yeah it pissed me off greatly today. The only solution I could find was to delete all of the stuff in my "Mini-Feed".

Wait, they added MORE stuff this week

 

[ampersand]

Wait, they added MORE stuff this week

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, all the changes I've seen made came about today.

Edit: That's a lie, they had some kinda blog type feature added recently but not today. I may be missing other changes too.

 

[Quietstorm]

Two, you need a college e-mail to join which cuts out that lovely 40-year old molestor demographic. Finally, you need to attend to same college in order to view anything but their picture, name, and the college which they attend (unless you are friends)

I know that you need a .edu e-mail address to register with Facebook (I have a facebook account). It doesn't matter if you're "friends" with some or not imo. Some people friend folks because they think they know them, and some people can be closet stalkers. You cleary haven't watched Lifetime. Sheesh.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, all the changes I've seen made came about today.

Edit: That's a lie, they had some kinda blog type feature added recently but not today. I may be missing other changes too.

I don't check it more than once maybe every two weeks. so.

 

[SentinelMind]

Yeah, facebook is getting mad creepy....although its true only people who are your friends can see what you do.....how many people have you accepted friendships and was like "whateva....."

The owners of facebook have been in negotiations to sell facebook to corporations.....remember when it all started as a little social network....years ago.

It's gonna get to the point, where people on facebook will know who was the last person to view your profile ...or "Joe Schmoe viewed your
profile 5 times within the last 3 days".......

But facebook has a huge hold on people...everyone is addicted to (I'm not in particular, I've only updated it like twice within last 6 months. ...but when I go library/computer cluster...everyone is on it). In my honest opinion, I would have never made a big deal outta facebook if the entire world wasn't on it.

It's gonna get even scarier...

 

[Leto Atrides]

Yeah, facebook is getting mad creepy....although its true only people who are your friends can see what you do.....how many people have you accepted friendships and was like "whateva....."

The owners of facebook have been in negotiations to sell facebook to corporations.....remember when it all started as a little social network....years ago.

It's gonna get to the point, where people on facebook will know who was the last person to view your profile ...or "Joe Schmoe viewed your
profile 5 times within the last 3 days".......

But facebook has a huge hold on people...everyone is addicted to (I'm not in particular, I've only updated it like twice within last 6 months. ...but when I go library/computer cluster...everyone is on it). In my honest opinion, I would have never made a big deal outta facebook if the entire world wasn't on it.

It's gonna get even scarier...

Xanga does this.



But yeah. I'm sure they will make an option to turn it off or something. I don't know anyone who uses Facebook who likes it; and I'm a college freshman, so that's most of the people I know.

 

[KingOfDreams]

I used to like facebook but I barely do anything on it anymore. Sometimes I'll get messages from people in the student orgs I belong to but that's all I really check anymore.

 

[Cyclops]

Facebook, MySpace... it's all the same crap. Just a way for pedophiles to find who they wanna rape.

 

[Erzengel]

Well the idea is variety Cyclops.

 

[jimmy]

Youtube is working its way up to myspace status.

 

[Cyclops]

Well, just wait until someone is raped off of youtube. Then it'll have finally made it.

 

[Tangled Web]

I hope they add this feature to myspace.

 

[triplefive]

The news feed is the WORST thing ever. I did a big profile change today and had no idea that it would be plastered over 100-odd peoples' front pages.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Facebook, MySpace... it's all the same crap. Just a way for pedophiles to find who they wanna rape.

I don't understand this mentality at all. I think people watch too many sensationalist Dateline reports or something.

 

[November Rain]

all the peeps in my office that use facebook usually spend their times looking for pictures of girls they've oogled in clubs before hand...



it's all part of the flirting i suppose. unfortunately the hype takes up too much of my time as it is, so i tend not to bother with trying to find pictures of people i've seen while out...

young males can be so silly sometimes...

 

[Superman79]

Not that I do anything improtant on facebook...but it IS annoying as hell to have all that crap around...

I loved facebook for the simplicity it offered over myspace...now...well now it's almost as bad or worse and I'm just pissed...

Facebook was a great way to get back in touch with people I haven't seen in years, it was/is great on that aspect but now, man...overdoing it big time...

 

[triplefive]

Not that I do anything improtant on facebook...but it IS annoying as hell to have all that crap around...

I loved facebook for the simplicity it offered over myspace...now...well now it's almost as bad or worse and I'm just pissed...

Facebook was a great way to get back in touch with people I haven't seen in years, it was/is great on that aspect but now, man...overdoing it big time...

UNL eh? A girl from my HS went there. I only know that because she's on my Facebook friends list

 

[Superman79]

UNL eh? A girl from my HS went there. I only know that because she's on my Facebook friends list

does that mean we can be facebook friends???

 

[triplefive]

does that mean we can be facebook friends???

[blackout]STALKER!!! :P[/blackout]

But that would mean we'd have to trade first and last names