The FACEBOOK Thread

[Ben Urich]

I don't really like the new Facebook features, but I don't dislike them, either.

 

[The Watchman]

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.

Give me your full name and vagina size so the stalking can politely commence please.

 

[Childlike Wild]

Every time Facebook adds new features, I'm more and more glad that I didn't click around adding everybody I've ever known to my list of friends.

 

[Superman79]

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

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

I'm game if you are

I promise, despite what occurred in Superman Returns...this Superman ISN"T a stalker

 

[Maximum Carnage]

.. Stalking is fun.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Yeah, mini-feed is good for stalkers...bad for cheaters.

 

[triplefive]

Yeah, mini-feed is good for stalkers...bad for cheaters.

Yeah, I didn't think of that. :P

It's just so dramatic when someone breaks up though... it's literally front-page news. Then again, so is my friend Dave removing Bad Santa from his list of favourite movies...

 

[Leto Atrides]

Yeah, I didn't think of that. :P

It's just so dramatic when someone breaks up though... it's literally front-page news. Then again, so is my friend Dave removing Bad Santa from his list of favourite movies...

It's useful, I now know 15 of my friends joined the "Change Facebook Back you *******s" group.

 

[triplefive]

There's also the "WHO GIVES A CRAP IT'S JUST FACEBOOK" group.

 

[Maximum Carnage]

I wonder if there is a group for hookin' up? That'd make things alot easier..

 

[Assassin]

never used face book, i'm a myspace kinda man..why did i just admit to that?

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Yeah, I didn't think of that. :P

It's just so dramatic when someone breaks up though... it's literally front-page news. Then again, so is my friend Dave removing Bad Santa from his list of favourite movies...

You mean your ex-friend Dave. Removing BS from your list is grounds for unbefriendment.

 

[Quietstorm]

USA TODAY

Facebook will soon be available to everyone
Posted 9/11/2006 10:20 PM ET

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY

Facebook, the online networking site once the exclusive terrain of college students, will soon be opening up to the world.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company will soon be allowing anyone with a valid e-mail address to sign up on the site and join a regional network. It will launch just over 500 networks in the USA and abroad, according to company spokeswoman Melanie Deitch.

When Facebook first launched two years ago, it was only open to people who had valid college e-mail addresses. Last September, the site opened up to high school students. And in May, it opened up to selected work networks. Now it will be open to virtually anyone.

And that could spell trouble for Facebook, says Danah Boyd, a social media researcher for Yahoo.

"Already, the high school students, college students and corporate accounts are having a hard time dealing with each other's presence," Boyd says. "I don't even want to think what will happen when Mom and Dad can join."

There is no date set for the expanded registration, says Facebook's Deitch.

Facebook originally had planned to launch it today but decided to delay the announcement after tens of thousands of people in its 9.3-million-user network protested a different change the company made to its site last week. Last Tuesday it launched a feature that turned people's personal information into customized news headlines. On Thursday, Facebook apologized to users and added privacy controls allowing people to limit the type of information sent over the network.

Facebook needs "to do a much better job of communicating with our user base," Deitch says. But she acknowledges that some users may be upset by the latest plans. Users have been upset nearly every time Facebook has expanded, she says.

"I find the strong possibility of another backlash," said Ben Parr, a Northwestern University junior who helped organize the protests against the news feeds. "It depends on the privacy features they include." Deitch says there will be privacy controls.

Currently, when people sign up, they create profiles that include as much information as they want to give — everything from their relationship status to political affiliations. Each person can browse profiles of anyone on his or her network. However, they can also search for people outside of their networks — and gain access to their profiles by asking permission.

While the networks are far from private, students especially have grown to see Facebook as their private homes online.

And this move could make them feel like they've lost that, says Andrew Ledbetter, a graduate student at the University of Kansas.

"Many Facebook users like the site because of its traditional image of exclusivity," he says.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Oy. Facebook is going to be crushed under it's own weight.

 

[Daisy]

So facebook would basically be another MySpace.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

it is another myspace, just for students.

 

[Daisy]

It's already for both students and corporations, and according to the article... they are planning to open it to the general public.

That would make it... just another MySpace. The restrictions are what sets it apart right now.

 

[Maximum Carnage]

With those restrictions gone, facebook will have no point .. what the hell?

That's what myspace is for .. everyone else. Facebook should be just for the college kids. (highschool kids shouldn't be on either..)

Oh, well.

 

[triplefive]

Facebook is pretty much open to everyone now (as of today or yesterday maybe). Current members can invite anyone.

Anyone who wants to be a member can just ask someone they know who's a member to join.

 

[KingOfDreams]

So now it's just a less interesting MySpace. The point was that it was exclusive to college students. Dumbasses.

 

[Ronny Shade]

 

[Sandman138]

First the ****ing stalker feeds, and now this ****!? I joined Facebook because it wasn't Myspace. I got into it becaue I could find out what was going on around campus, keep in touch with friends, and make new friends on campus without having to deal with messages from some allegedly seventeen year old asking for my AIM or some band that didn't bother to look at my damn musical preferences asking to be my "friend". The worst part is that they know all this. They saw what happened when they pulled their whole feed fiasco, we don't want a limitless network, but they obviously don't care. At least the network privacy settings are still functioning, but how long is that going to last? Furthermore, now that it caters to companies, how much do you want to bet that we'll see scam groups like VECTOR Marketing using it to harass us?: :

 

[Space Moose]

Goddamn you MySpace... GODDAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

It's already for both students and corporations, and according to the article... they are planning to open it to the general public.

That would make it... just another MySpace. The restrictions are what sets it apart right now.

not really.

 

[C. Lee]

First the ****ing stalker feeds, and now this ****!? I joined Facebook because it wasn't Myspace. I got into it becaue I could find out what was going on around campus, keep in touch with friends, and make new friends on campus without having to deal with messages from some allegedly seventeen year old asking for my AIM or some band that didn't bother to look at my damn musical preferences asking to be my "friend". The worst part is that they know all this. They saw what happened when they pulled their whole feed fiasco, we don't want a limitless network, but they obviously don't care. At least the network privacy settings are still functioning, but how long is that going to last? Furthermore, now that it caters to companies, how much do you want to bet that we'll see scam groups like VECTOR Marketing using it to harass us?: :

So...uh....your complaint is that strangers might ask to talk to you....kind of like they can do on here?