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- breezy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26From the help section on www.facebook.com :
What is the Limited Profile?
Would you prefer that your vegan friends don't see that photo of you eating a giant steak? Is your love for Desperate Housewives something you would rather not share with your fraternity brothers? You can establish a Limited Profile that will create a limited view of your Facebook profile for selected people. These individuals will not be informed that they are not able to see certain profile features.
From the My Privacy page, simply click on the "Limited Profile Settings" link. You will be taken to a page where you can decide what profile information you wish to include in your Limited Profile (the default is to include everything). Once you click on "save and preview," you can get a sense for what your Limited Profile will look like.
After you have established your Limited Profile, you can make a list of people who will view your profile this way. Just use the search tool at the bottom of the My Privacy page under "Limiting Profile Access." - tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23bad move in my opinion. there are already tons of college students paranoid about future employers seeing their facebook page. facebook is supposed to be fun, not a resume.
- jmann, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Greeeat....I can't wait 'til my boss can leave me messages on facebook and check out pictures from my poker party over the weekend. :(
- SvobodaIT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Facebook has been rolling out a ton of new features lately. I think it is amazing how fast they have grown in such a short amount of time.
- justinmorris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15You didn't even read past the title did you?
"Facebook is now allowing new users from corporate networks" - kaje, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20Did you even read the description? The news is that they're letting certain corporations onto facebook now. NOT highschool students.
Show yourself to the logout link and never login again. - Manjushri, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Yup, the owners of facebook apparently turned down $750, 000, 000. They're holding out for 2 billion. 2 billion!!
It's a bit greedy if you ask me as the next flavour of the month social networking site could be right around the corner.
2billion!!!
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2006/tc20060327_215976.htm - KageKonjou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Yay, now I can stalk college girls, track down high-schoolers like a pedophile, AND hunt and slaughter Microsoft employees, all within the confines of one website!
Thank you, Facebook! - dgritsko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10i think it's a brilliant move. this will definitely make them a more lucrative buy for their $2 billion price tag. this is a logical next step for them i guess, helps the site to keep on growing. i've always been partial to facebook over myspace - it's got a nice, clean, "web 2.0-esque" interface, unlike the cesspool that is myspace. so much less junk to deal with, and a lot more enjoyable to use.
- Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10This is bad news for myspace, and facebook just turned down a big offer from some company for a lot of money as well? I think they won't regret doing that if this keeps up.
- mikespez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm not a fan of this decision. One of the lures of facebook has always been that it has been exclusive. For awhile, it was only 18-24 (college students), then they added high school support, so now it's more like 14-24. The last thing I think us facebook users want is for it to turn into MySpace. There are no sexual predator problems on facebook (i.e. older people preying on those who are younger) because to register, you MUST use your university e-mail address, and your REAL NAME; therefore, you are both a college student and a real person. I think if facebook starts letting in random people from random companies, it will not only destroy the collegiate nature of the site, but may introduce pretadors who can easily obtain the real names, phone numbers, and addresses of college & high school students (because many people put that information directly on their profiles).
- Centius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Facebook needs to stop adding stuff. Everyone liked it because it wasn't myspace. Only people in college could use it and that's what made it different. Now it's just slowly turning into another myspace. It might be good profit for them to expand their market but its going to turn facebook into another junk site like myspace has become.
- thefirelane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If you don't realize.... they turned down the offer not because they wanted 2 billion, but because they didn't want to sell. They said 2 billion because it is an insane amount of money so people would talk about it. If the offer was accepted, they win because the amount was insane. If it was rejected (and it was), they get free advertising because everyone talks about the insane amount of money they asked for.
I discuss this more here:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/3/31/8047/89848 - AwesomeMonster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5We've been able to do that for a while.and i like it, I can be connected to my brother that way
- DrSbaitso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Except that you have to verify a person as a "friend" before they're allowed to see your profile. At best, a predator would only be able to obtain a low-resolution image of a potential victim.
- creacher, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Although admittedly, the title is a bit deceiving. An "and" in place of the comma would clear up some of the confusion.
- ArmchairAthlete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I disagree that college kids don't have money. Maybe some of them. But they have money, they've just gotten their first credit cards perhaps, and they're still establishing what brands they like. A critical demographic.
- plamoni, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"Although admittedly, the title is a bit deceiving. An "and" in place of the comma would clear up some of the confusion."
Um, I am not sure if you ever read newspapers or magazines or pretty much any other publication, but traditionally, in a headline, it is very common to replace "and"s with commas. - cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"and your REAL NAME;"
Not true. There are thousands of fictional character ones. Or people make one for their pet, etc....etc.....
I have one fake account for a fictional character. My University gave us two email address that direct to the same account. And FTR, my fictional character has reached over 500 friends. While I sit at about 100..... How sad is that? - jdog1016, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree completely. What value would corporate networks add to facebook anyway?
- ArmchairAthlete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Part of what made facebook unique, part of what I liked about it, was that it was just a college thing. WAS. They're sort of diluting their brand if you ask me. Of course, the networks are sort of separated but still...
Anyhow, facebook > myspace. Clean interface, don't let people fux up their profiles severely, actual decent searching (I can search for people with similar interests), more pics/albums feature, etc. Oh, and the site actually works most of the time, that's a plus. - ATLien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think it is a good move on their part. While I am not to thrilled about it, it is going to help them get the 2 billion dollar price tag they have been wanting.
- Jozone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think Facebook is growing / attempting to innovate too much for its own good. Lately I've found the "improvements" to be anything but..
(1) New Search Style
(2) Displays "All Friends" in 6 picture area
(3) Including High Schools... no offense HS aged people - mikespez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think you're kind of right. You don't have to "technically" put in your real name when you register, but most do. Also, it is true that there are fake profiles. At my college, there are facebook pages for the dining hall, the sudent center, and a few other campus buildings. However, after some investigation, I found that the college administration made those for fun, creating e-mail addresses for each of the places manually so they could make the "fake" facebook profiles.
However, again, at my school, you need to input your real name, social security #, and student id # to even get a "@princeton.edu" e-mail address. So, here it's almost impossible to get a fraudulent univeristy e-mail address and therefore impossible to make a fake facebook profile. - breezy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2read the comments above and help section on facebook.com
"What is the Limited Profile?
Would you prefer that your vegan friends don't see that photo of you eating a giant steak? Is your love for Desperate Housewives something you would rather not share with your fraternity brothers? You can establish a Limited Profile that will create a limited view of your Facebook profile for selected people. These individuals will not be informed that they are not able to see certain profile features." - sudonim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'm a little iffy on the new *feature*. For me facebook is like a classier myspace. We all know that most high school students take the idea of class and flush it down the drain.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Geez...please stop talking as if $2 billion is on the line. It is not. They know they are not going to get that muich. They are never goin to get that much. Not even close.
- asianGamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2All the college kids are starting to hate facebook now, because it was once exclusive to them. Now that there are a bunch of high school students facebook is losing its appeal to college kids.
Its a bold move, but I don't think it was a good one. They should have just sold it when they had the chance. - dtmfdan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm just glad they went back to the old system of friends
- mikespez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think that facebook also desperatley wants to expand it's market. It sounds like they are a success, because they practically own the college market (e.g. most college students use facebook on a regular basis). However, college kids have no money. So when people want to advertise on their site, or when facebook is seeking out venture capital $$, they're restricted because their users are poor. If they're able to get some better-off working stiffs on the site, I think they'll not only be able to charge more for ads, but they may even get that $2B they want.
- pixlnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3At first this will piss people off. I know A BUNCH of people are already freaked about potential employers being able to look at their profile so they get even more private....which completely is the point of facebook. Facebook really needs to communicate a couple things to it's users. The first, they must communicate the limited profile capability. The second, is that only limited companies can access this. There is a reason they say limited companies! Those companies pay Facebook for information regarding what people are talking about or what they're saying about products, etc. AKA....market research. If they really wanted to see what college kids do on the weekends they could visit College Humor. The real value companies see in Facebook is in market research.....and the same with MySpace. Sure Facebook can make money off of advertising....but it's a fraction of what kind of coin they can make from selling companies the ***** all the younger kids are socializing about. Trust me, Facebook is not out to kill you or your career.
- Lereas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If they were offered $750Mil right out of the box, I don't see why $2B is such a huge stretch if they keep up the way they're going for another couple years.
I met Mark Zuckerberg at a convention, and he definitely seemed like a pretty driven guy. When you drop out of Harvard to follow something like this, you put everything you've got into it. - bigbadbyte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Facebook had a great niche. It not in competition with myspace, it is trying to put itself in that situation because the makers are getting greedy and ultimately this is going to kill them.
- ranger0099, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I always thought what made facebook stand out was that you needed an email address from the domain of your college to sign up. it definitely made it feel like a closer neighborhood rather than letting anyone create whatever profile they wanted. the article says they're doing the same with corporate email, but eventually, isn't the whole thing going to get very dilluted?
- Pureeviljester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are somethings you would share with people and not with people thinking about hiring you. I don't care if random people see my stuff but not employers.
- firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn, nobody steal my Mititary Network idea. That would be kickass. Dudes in the military can post images of their kills, guns, hoochie mammas. The marine dudes can flame the profiles of the army dudes. Oh the humanity.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Holy crap. I'm going to dig through the last article about myspace/facebook because i'm positive someone said something about how they wish there was a corporate facebook. How psychic.
- ReqX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There goes the neighborhood.
- scotty588, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why don't they expand their network to community collleges. I have been trying to get my community college on FB for a while now. They said it's based on requests. Got a bunch of people on myspace to request but still not added.
- firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0FACEBOOK HAS JUMPED THE SHARK !
The cool factor is gone. What are they going to add next? Military Facebook? What do corporate networks have to do with educational network? This is the bad side of VC money. Too much money, not enough vision, too many cooks in the kitchen. It's the "kitchen sink" syndrome. Google is experiencing it now. Yahoo has been experiencing it for years. - shagz7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0how counter-productive is that?....
- peter303, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Its exclusive outside your domain.
You can only see affliliation and name of
outside searchs unless they person invites you. - Lereas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Meh, I don't know if I like the idea really. Facebook has been about networking for college students. Then they added Highschool, and now businesses. Mark created it for friends to keep in touch in school, but it's become a money thing. Although with $2 billion on the line, I guess I don't blame the guy.
- will-rom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Wow I am retarded. Next time I rant I will rant on the right topic. Hah. oh well.
- betona, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Us grown-ups are already using LinkedIn. I can't tell you how many recruiters that have reached out to me via that site.
- vitriolage, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2There's nothing forcing you to use your real name when signing up for an account. All you need is an email address from your schools domain, so even addresses from subdomains are usable. This allows for multiple accounts and creation of fake accounts which can easily seen by searching for the name of a social icon, historical figure, etc.
- will-rom, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2This is really old news. They have had high school and college on the same "network" for months now. I can say with about 99% assurance that most of the college members of face book do not like the move to join with high school kids. Facebook is seen as some right of passage when you are actually a college student. Elitist yes, but aren't we all.
- MatthewWilkes, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Yeah, if you aren't literate you shouldn't be opening your mouth until you've at least tried reading beyond the title.
- Pureeviljester, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I use facebook and myspace and I think this sucks.. I don't want little kids to be asking to be my friends on facebook. If your in High School, you'll agree when you go to college.
- w00master, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Boy another Classmates.com. Wow... exciting.... *goes back to sleep*
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