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- amgamer23, on 12/12/2007, -0/+19Read a book?
- fucter, on 12/12/2007, -2/+16same here, except i posted tranny porn so hopefully it gets permanently deleted
- mtschmie, on 12/12/2007, -1/+14Does it seem like Facebook's value is ridiculously over-inflated to anyone else?
Between poor public relations lately, and the fact that all of their "apps" are quickly making Facebook the second ugliest place on the 'net (MySpace has a pretty firm grip on the lead spot), it seems like they are going to end up looking foolish for not taking one of the buyouts they were previously offered. - Niten, on 12/12/2007, -0/+12Get off our asses and do our stalking like real men and women?
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -0/+10Go outside and be socialable.
- HerrEisenheim, on 12/12/2007, -1/+10If you want to actually "delete" your Facebook, you have to email them. Even then, you never really know if they did it or not. Every time you change information, your old information is still saved on their server. Every time you delete a picture, it only deletes the relative links to the picture, the picture itself still remains. It took me about a dozen emails back and forth to make sure everything was, as best I could tell, removed... and I never even had a lot of stuff, and this was pre-apps. If you get the absolute path to a file, you can often still access it even after the file has been deleted by the user, your account "deactivated", and it even sometimes persists after requesting perma-deletion. Fucter's solution is actually probably one of the better ones for deleting a Facebook account.
- Vaiosaurus, on 12/12/2007, -4/+12What will we all do without Facebook?
- Tserk, on 12/12/2007, -6/+13Quitting Facebook is like quitting WoW.
- z0mbie2099, on 12/12/2007, -4/+11I recently changed my personal info and disabled my Facebook account.
- mlostracco, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6I like the line, "Facebook does need to keep a lid on social spam or else it could drive people away," as if the trashvalanche of stupid, unwanted apps with their incessant email notifications isn't already serving that purpose. At least, for some of us.
No, I don't want to get in a zombie fight or add a giant fortune cookie or help you cheer for your idiotic sports team, and if I have to add the FunWall application to see what you put on it, you wasted your time putting whatever you put on it on it. It's because of these incredibly annoying and useless apps that I'm so close to giving up on Facebook. It was no nice when it was simple and clean and more trustworthy. - mataranka, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5the problem is the more popular a site like this becomes the worse it will be. In a year or so another site will come along and it'll be cool, eveyone will join, and then that will become ***** as well. In a few years people will be talking about facebook like they talk about myspace now.
- sbgunn, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5They should certainly be more open about why accounts are being disabled. Still, I've been on Facebook for over 4 years, and since they opened it up to everyone the quality has gone downhill considerably. I'm glad they're being aggressive in removing spammers and fake accounts. Sounds like they're struggling to find the perfect balance, but this article doesn't contribute anything other than a few incidental stories about closures.
- tman84, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3facebook is a serious site, if people have fake accounts how will they be able to accurately mine all of your personal data and distribute it to all of their sponsors so they can better shove ads down your face and you will ultimately buy buy buy.
- looksliketrent, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3This is the internet. For some reason, everyone thinks everything should be free.
- dmoney22, on 12/12/2007, -1/+4Man, Facebook is just *****' everything up. What is with them.
- chrisfix, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Facebook is quick to jump the gun, it seems. Attempting to avoid the mess that myspace has become.
- Kipu2021, on 12/12/2007, -2/+4Anybody else look at this headline and think, "Who the hell cares?"
- Topher06, on 12/12/2007, -5/+7I think customer service applies to some product or service you pay for, not get for free. If Facebook disables my account, or screws it up some how, then thats it, I just won't use Facebook. I can't complain about something that I never paid for in the first place. You get what you pay for, pay nothing, expect nothing in return. Lets put it this way. Are you going to phone up and complain to the neighbour that put his old sofa on the side of the road, the one you stole last night, because it stinks?
- plizard, on 12/12/2007, -2/+4hey maybe it will help them get lives
- KaJuN4, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2A worthy undertaking. I'm so very tired of seeing all the Ron Paul and Obama fanboys going on and on about them. The election isn't for another eleven months people! Tone it down a little!
- kmckanna, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, you want to do it because you know it's bad for you. But there is something about it that you can't let go. For WoW the addiction is getting sweet gear, facebook, getting comments and meeting new people/ keeping in touch.
When you quit you feel like it's a lose-lose, then you realize how much better off you are about a week or two later. - form3hide, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2No, they didn't make a mistake by opening up to everyone. They did, however, make the mistake of how they went about it. They should have made it open to everyone, but through invitation only. So, you'd need a friend already in FB in order to join FB.
Otherwise, you're locked in to only one market. - aule, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2much better, I expect.
- Pburgdwller, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3Back before Facebook jumped the shark, I had my account suspended for linking Digg stories to my notes. I had over 100 notes in one day and I guess I ticked off the spam gods. My account was suspended for the weekend and it took 2 or 3 FB workers to finally tell me why it had been suspended.
- Insane_Edna, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3I completely agree Facebook is a free service and if they don't want you to use it that is their right. When you pay for a service than you have a right to complain when something goes wrong.
- Threlly1, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Digg canceled my original Threlly username because I was making fun of Ron Paul fanboys, I kid you not.
No explanation, just blocked. - plizard, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2yeah, i remember the good ole facebook before it went to hell in a hand basket
- Phlosten, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Yes, isnt Facebook yesterdays news already?
- brianhatch, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1I think this is what happens when clueless analysts value your company in the billions of dollars range for questionable reasons; and you have to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING to support that valuation.
- mult1task, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2Use the phone.
- JonLatane, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2If the kid in the video at the bottom is a college kid, how the hell has he been on Facebook since his Freshman year of high school? They've only been around since February 2004, and only allowed high schoolers in since February 2006, so the only way he could have had an account that long is if it was created under false pretenses (namely, that he is a college student even though he is not before they allowed high schoolers in).
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Make some real friends?
- mlostracco, on 12/13/2007, -0/+11 in 4, actually:
http://www.thestar.com/article/284017 - twtmc, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Last I checked, Facebook was making millions upon millions of dollars off of ad revenue.
- MonarchWastxD, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1So should you not complain about bad air quality if you get it free? Grow up and protest - this is a DEMOCRACY, use it if you want.
- daridave, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Facebook becoming lame, stupid and boring? Welcome to yesterday!
- SleepingOrange, on 12/12/2007, -0/+11 in 6 people in canada have a facebook account. For the record.
- abhiroop, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1still free...think about it like this...the ONLY reason they even have a customer service dept. is so that they can keep customers and keep the ad revenue coming in. Thats why they could hardly care if a few customers leave, as that doesn't hurt the bottom line.
- gordeaoux, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1I effin love the "CEO of Satisfaction"
- rasterbator, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2Facebook is whack!
- Niten, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2I don't know... frankly, the fact that Facebook has more than 57 million locked-in users who can absolutely, positively be counted upon to come back for new advertisements day after day seems to support the company's $16 billion or so valuation a lot more than, for example, any supposed rationale behind Google's $218 billion market cap.
Not that I really know what I'm talking about. - LokitheComplex, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1I'd bet it goes down...or at least I hope
- Phlosten, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Do what we normally did, before Facebook. You know this Internet thing has been around a little longer than Facebook which will probably be gone just as quick. Here is hoping anyway.
- brianhatch, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1I think facebook made a mistake by opening up to everyone. I think the future of social networking is in sites tailored to specific groups (the way facebook was initially targeted at college students) but that can share membership/friending information among one another. Instead of opening up to everyone and developing their application API they should have remained focused and created an open social networking API for other focused sites. Sure they would have had a smaller audience, but they would have continued to serve that audience with excellence.
- bigheadshark, on 12/16/2007, -0/+0Facebook brims with haugthy, effete hypocrisy. They should get out of the "people business" (which they clearly don't get) and maybe go into selling corporate software or something... just look at my thread here (i'm garage-sized start-up trying to bootstrap a free service to help people find stuff they want near home easily). They've been simulateously injecting my newsfeeds--everythign--wiht their new "surveillance advertising" while, at the same time, auto-spamming me about posting local (to my university) ads, promoting the service we're diligently trying to get right---a free service, no less---and one we are determined to grow with no ad-spam ever... Ironic that they would single us out? Go figure.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anthony Estes
Date: Dec 16, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Who are you? What are you talking about? (fwd)
To: Sales Support
Are you high!? Or do you think me a fool. At the very least, you're totally wasted on your own koolaid.
Your "social graph" became the not-so-secret spam-honeypot the minute you bet the farm on advertising--the most invasive, privacy-threatening advertising imaginable in the current Internet age, i might ad. Not only did you sell-out---you've done so faster and more pervasively than those before you.
Save the ***** for your investors at the Board meeting. You've sold out. And everybody knows it.
Listen to yourself! You basically say "Bands (a business) == GOOD", "Every other business == BAD" (especially the ones that compete with your creepy surveillance-advertising business model.
You should splash some cold water in your face and ditch the effete jargon. You're Myspace with nicer widgets... I'd sell to Murdoch now while you can still get a hyper -inflated price.
Otherwise, cease spamming me. And think =for yourself=, would you?
When you dance with the Devil, the Devil doesn't change...
aestes@email.unc.edu
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On Dec 16, 2007 12:15 PM, Sales Support wrote:
Hi,
A musical artist, business, or brand can create Facebook Pages to share information, interact with their fans, and create a highly engaging presence plugged into Facebook's social graph. These Pages are distinct presences, separate from users' profiles, and optimized for these presences' needs to communicate, distribute information/content, engage their fans, and capture new audiences virally through their fans' recommendations to their friends. Facebook Pages are designed to be a media rich, valuable presence solution for any artist, business, or brand that can be integrated seamlessly into the user experience with socially-relevant applications.
To create a Page, please visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php or simply click on the 'Create a page for your business' link at the bottom of any Page.
Let us know if you have any further questions.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
Ryann
Customer Operations Representative
Facebook
-----Original Message to Facebook-----
From: Anthony Estes ( anthony.estes@gmail.com)
To: appeals+ngqzxxs@facebook.com
Subject: Re: Who are you? What are you talking about? (fwd)
So you allow yourselves to invade my newsfeed with ad-spam, but you forbid
your users--all of whom can leave you in a New York minute--from using the
marketplace as a "marketplace" for goods and services. And you want to sell
me access to advertise to people you do not own in any way. And you think
this is right because you own your software. Perhaps you will compete with
Lotus Notes when your people leave you.
On Dec 14, 2007 2:40 PM, Facebook Support < appeals+ngqzxxs@facebook.com>
wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Your listing was removed because we do not allow users to advertise
> services or businesses using the Marketplace feature. If you would like to
> advertise your business in the future, please consider using our Flyers
> product. Sorry for any inconvenience.
>
> Thanks for your understanding,
>
> Keith
> User Operations
> Facebook
>
>
>
> -----Original Message to Facebook-----
> From: Anthony Estes (aestes@email.unc.edu)
> To: warning@facebook.com
> Subject: Who are you? What are you talking about? (fwd)
>
> For the 5th time, your auto-spam system has slandered me for simply trying
> to start an above-board, helpful business to help people find things near
> where they live for free... you have, wrongfuly, and with no basis in fact
> or human-being-based analysis, in the process, lumped me, a former
> facebook loyalist now inundated with the spam of your own hypocrisy, with
> the scammers, phishers, porn kings and whatever other miscreants you
> continue to fail to be able find (the real problems) and your business
> leadership continues to evangelize the most invasive, privacy-abandoning
> suite of spam-vertising tools ever put online.
>
> Once again, stop spamming me or I will pursue a remedy through the Can
> Spam Act.
>
> A. Estes
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> - -
> - "Seid quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" -
> - aestes@email.unc.edu -
> - -
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 08:44:57 -0500 (EST)
> From: Anthony Estes
> To: warning@facebook.com
> Subject: Who are you? What are you talking about?
>
> You sent me an oblique message regarding some supposed violation of your
> terms
> of use. You've done this once before and you acknowledged you were
> mistaken.
> And now here we go again.
>
> How, pray tell----especially given your hordes of phishers and scam
> artists
> that bombard me each day----does this edict possibly apply to me?!
>
> "We do not allow spam, nudity, drug use, attacks on an individual or
> group, or
> other obscene content."
>
> Who +are+ you? How can I =phone= you?
>
> Quite frankly, your message is spam and I'm inclined to blacklist your
> domains
> for your baseless accusation and blinding hypocrisy unless you can make a
> valid
> point to me directly on the phone.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> - -
> - "Seid quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" -
> - aestes@email.unc.edu -
> - -
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -----End Original Message to Facebook-----
>
>
>
-----End Original Message to Facebook-----
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A n d y E s t e s :: Chief Executive Officer :: NEARBYNETWORKS :: 665 Boylston Street :: Boston :: Massachusetts :: 02116 :: 781.240.7774 fax :: aestes@NEARBYNETWORKS.COM :: This transmission's contents are proprietary and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete all :: Try a Nearby Networks Neighborhood™ Today! :: http://teanearby.net |> http://camerasnearby.net |> http://findnearby.net |> http://wiinearby.net |> http://ps3nearby.net |> http://grouprider.net |>http://datesnearby.net |> http://autosnearby.net |> http://iphonenearby.net |> http://motorcyclesnearby.net :: Learn Just How Much You Can Find Near Home!™ - Eradicator68, on 12/13/2007, -0/+0Well, When they disable your account. You disappear from facebook, all photo tags of yourself - Gone. You are removed from all friends, You never existed. If you were an admin of a group, there is no more admin. It royally sucks. I am still waiting to see if my account will be re enabled. They just stole all my stuff. I wonder if a class action lawsuit could solve the issue. Theft of some sort? 20 emails is considered spam, Glad the alumni class has my real address.
- rojajimmy, on 12/13/2007, -0/+0They are stupid morons. they block your accounts. Yes I had 4 disabled just because I add sexy and beautiful babes as friends who actually do add me up. I lost 150 friends every time on 3 of my accounts and all the profile info and pics. They just don't give you an opportunity of being heard, no warnings just go & ***** disable your account. Never ever save your pics just on facebook. Always keep a back up. & they seriously need to change their rules about adding people, messaging and pokes. Y the hell is there a limit on it. Otherwise shut down facebook. Y the hell you have a "social networking" site if you don't want ppl to communicate on it.
- RedHeadedFreak, on 12/12/2007, -11/+10All online social networks are ***** retarded.
- nomadofthehills, on 12/12/2007, -7/+6They never should have opened facebook to non-college kids.
- zachshmack, on 12/12/2007, -4/+3Oh waaaaaa I can't stalk people anymore!
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