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- muaddib420, on 10/12/2007, -5/+72sweet, now i can lurk for co-eds instead of high school girls.
- Pluckie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45Welcome to facebook, Mom!
- crash331, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Here comes the end of facebook. The whole point was you could post all your crazy college ***** without everyone and their brother seeing it. I am about to make my profile private and I suggest everyone else do it, too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28"sweet, now i can lurk for co-eds instead of high school girls."
For about 10 minutes until all the MySpace teenies clone their MySpace into Facebook. Goodbye Facebook. lol - GleepGlop2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28my-what-space? facebook: the only social networking site with a decent design.
- Bixter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Yee haw. Time to get my predator on.
- raptordrew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Here that? It's the sound of two-way traffic - college students leaving Facebook, and stalkers coming to it.
- theonlyvlad, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27Meh, I just went into my profile and unchecked the fact that people with "no network" may find me in search. Problem solved.
On the other hand, is it the default option? No, i had to access it in the privacy section. Which means that most of those girls you'll be stalking won't have done what I just did. Keep on stalking!
In my opinion whenever Facebook decides to do something wonderful like this (sarcasm), the next time an existing user logs on to Facebook they should be greeted with a page explaining the change and IMMEDIATELY in bold an option to turn on privacy control against that option. - mmeads, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22...and Block: Mom
- anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -22/+39and now its just another myspace copy
- lo0ol, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23I still don't believe claims like this. Personally, I don't think this move matters nearly as much as most college students will complain about. facebook has already built-in plenty of privacy tools so that you can remain invisible from other people completely. You can control who can see your stuff, and who can see you at all. Moving to an open network does NOT mean that facebook is MySpace. A lot of students out there seem to think that by opening the network they'll be allowing HTML code, embedded video, etc etc etc, all that crap that forms the backbone for hating MySpace. facebook has already said that that won't happen, and if you look at their clean look they've maintained over the years, I'll believe them.
Regardless, I'm sure people will lament the move and make hundreds (more) anti-open network groups, but I just don't think they have much of an argument. Yes, it's nice to belong to an elite group of eliteness, but in the end, you'll control your own experience at facebook, not a random emo girl from Ohio who joined this morning. - uhbeta, on 10/12/2007, -17/+32you obviously haven't use facebook
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17homophone says what?
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15i'm gonna up all my privacy levels...
- crbrown2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13not even close. the design for one is light yrs ahead of myspace. the user controls are more intuitive, and it also does not allow HTML code{thank god}. those are the big three IMO. i don't feel like listing more. just go sign up and check it out for yourself.
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@ lool
Facebook was essentially the alternative to Myspace if you didn't want to talk to pedos, emo kids, and community college dropouts. Now they get added to the mix. Most people that used facebook appreciated that they didnt have to change their privacy settings to block the trash from friending them.
Now they do. I'm still going to use it...but every step they take toward Myspace is just a bigger and bigger mistake. - GravyTrain6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11if you would have said stalkr.net you comment would have been dugg up
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16@Popdmb
So basicly, it's for self righteous ***** to setup some heirarchy of elitism to jerk each other off and show off their new Abercrombie polo with the flipped colar picture?
I'll leave MySpace to the Emos and Facebook to the douchbags then. - thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10DAMNIT, i got an online degree so i could use facebook..
- Pluckie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Facebook blog team explains the move:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2210227130 - EGOvoruhk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Even though they will get millions of new users, they will still miss you. I think you should tell more people about how you're deleting your account
- mutt2jeff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I always liked facebook because it had personality. It was something different, all the college students gave it a flavor, a feel that I really enjoyed. I suspect that that flavor is about to dry up.
- toekneebullard, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13How the hell is this not blog spam? Just link to the damn registration page.
- mattmichielsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7As long as the embedded youtube videos stay off, I'll stay on.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dude, getting a degree by mail from Sally Struthers does not classify as having been to college.
- PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Well you would know. You run that huge social networking site, don't you? What's it called again?
- Misanthrope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Hey! That's not true. People with no college degree are NOT good people. They deserve to rot!
This is the worst thing that's ever happened to the internets, now any old looney can get into the perfection of facebook. Don't you know that non-college-grads are all pedophiles and stalkers! It's true! Look at the comments up there!
/god I hope the sarcasm filter isn't on... - cybersamurai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9This is exactly why I never joined myspace. I'm guessing about 3 days before I delete my facebook account.
- ccourt23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I just been poked by a governor candidate..... let the spamming begin
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I just hope it doesn't get flooded with bands, companies, & porn sites like Myspace...
- Tebixan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6As of now people can only look at each others profiles if they are in the same network. So all the facebook users who are on college networks will still be seperated from the general population. Unless they change this, new users will only be able to see profiles of people within their geographical network.
For example, I am a UCF student in Orlando FL. So people who are not UCF students or do not live in Orlando cannot look at my information unless we are friends. Plus you can create a limited profile for everyone else, and only reveal your personal information (such as phone #, email address, etc) to those you trust.
Just clearing some things up for those who have been excluded so far. - Hollister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ theonlyvlad
They do... From facebook
"Remember, only confirmed friends and people in your networks can see your profile information. To control who can see you on Facebook, edit your privacy settings."
RIGHT after I logged in. - EdiciusTsaf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Okay...
No one can find me who is only in a regional network or none at all...
Should be the new standard option, I hate opt-out. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6still is better... u don't have to hit pause every time u view a friend's profile...
- gophernut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here lies Facebook. Once cool, now dead
RIP - Sangatious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow, This is great news! I hope next they let us customize our own page!!!1! Wouldn't that be awesome?!
- Bloodwine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm not a user of Facebook or MySpace, but if they cared about their members they would have rolled out a separate-but-connected service for the general public (to compete more head-on with MySpace) and have an option for the Facebook users (unchecked by default) that would make their profile visible to the separate general public service.
- Kev1000000, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13@lo0ol
No. Facebook was awesome because of the limited networks. Features were created for that specific group of people (college kids). Now, you can tell the news feed was leading into this open registration, and look how many people hated it. Facebook has completley screwed their original members and sold out to try and compete with myspace. But here is the kicker, they cant. I gaurantee you a lot of college kids will delete their account, and because of this, less people will sign up on Facebook. This whole thing is a stupid decision of Facebook's part. He should've took the 900 million when he had the chance... - MacGeekPro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Now when all the parents get Facebook accounts, all the under-21 college kids will be removing their drunken party pics faster than you can say Bud Light
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7So basicly, it's for self righteous ***** to setup some heirarchy of elitism to jerk each other off and show off their new Abercrombie polo with the flipped colar picture?
I'll leave MySpace to the Emos and Facebook to the douchbags then."
You're the reason I don't want facebook to open up to groups and Digg to have a politics section. Faux-intellectuals who look down on a college education and can't spell basically, self-righteous, hierarchy, collar, or douchebag.
Then you assume that to be educated you need to show some sort of rich-prick behavior like collar-flipping. Shut the ***** up, you dont know *****...this is why i dont want facebook to open up to every trash bucket who doesnt think before he speaks. - robert94087, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What's next?
Will PunimBook http://www.punimbook.com/ (Face Book for Jews) start opening up to GOYIM!? That will be the beginning of the end. - thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6half of my freinds are college dropouts, and theyre genuinely great people so i guess i dont mind at all.
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5...so their angle that they were safer because they restricted it to students only that got mentioned on every news story is now out the window. Wolf in sheep's clothing.
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5i was banned from my school's network (don't worry about why) and i emailed the webmaster and he made me an account. simple enough.
- mv10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Facebook officially jumped the shark. Good Job on ruining a good thing. The only reason i loved facebook was because It was unique to my university.
- LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I think this is a big mistake. The reason the value of Facebook was so high is because their market was targeted at a specific age group. This was important for marketers because they knew the audience. Now it's gonna be a mess. I think this may lead to Facebooks downfall.
- tigro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Um, facebook catergorizes people into "networks" which makes it even easier for advertisers to reach their target audience. Just becuase facebook has opened up, does not mean these networks dissappear or become dilluted. John Q. Public cannot join the network "CGNU" unless he was actually a student there. What facebook now has are networks that are larger and more networks which means advetisments can be better targeted and reach more people.
so what you say is completely false. - serpentor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3r3negade - Facebook doesn't care what you want. They're trying to fetch $1-2BILLION from a yahoo buyout, they need all the huge subscriber numbers they can get.
- aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is a colossal mitake! the only thing unique about facebook was the registration qualification. first the news feed rss crap and now this. they're going down. what a shame.
- mmeads, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Before I had no problems leaving up my phone/e-mail for everyone in school, I guess I need to go change all my privacy settings today. *sigh*
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