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- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -16/+48***** facebook and myspace
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -5/+33Facebook is wholly irrelevant to my life and I could not care less about it. Email already is social networking. Duh. The blog entry was lame and filled with typical techerotic ramblings.
- mojaam, on 11/15/2007, -1/+23All this sounds a bit far fetched. Facebook newsfeed only appears to be successful because it's set as the default homepage. The RSS feeds they offer are all pretty boring other than probably notes. I will like Email and Social Network not to merge and stay as separate entities as they are.
- vpshockwave, on 11/14/2007, -1/+19For all I hear about facebook, I must be the only one not to hang out on it all day.
- bluetrevian, on 11/15/2007, -2/+17I really hope they're wrong, because I dropped Facebook like a hot potato... here's why:
Privacy.
Yep... Unless you want ALL your personal information shared with the YellowbookSuperDynaMegaCorps of the world I suggest you get a life and close your Facebook account. You can share pictures on your Flickr site, blog on blogspot, and spy on your friends with Zabasearch.com
Its really a creepy big-brotheresque system that I cannot abide a minute longer. Facebook is now a haven for hypercritical douchebags and stalkers. Do you really want to meet THOSE people?! - Stevethegreat, on 11/15/2007, -1/+12No, actually, he must have some *real* friends
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -0/+9the future will be modeled on a CIA personal data gathering operation disguised as a social site? ok then.
- catalysis, on 11/15/2007, -3/+11Where have you been? Yahoo is one of the most visited sites on the web.
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8I was not planning on boycotting the future, but this may change things.
- effedup, on 11/15/2007, -3/+10I hate facebook. I dropped myspace asap and then went to facebook because of how clean and uncluttered it was.. now it's almost worse than myspace. I am gunna close my account soon too.
- syroncoda, on 11/14/2007, -5/+12haha the future will be modeled on facebook. thats brilliant. thats yahoo admitting that they have no ***** clue how to develop new and exciting ideas on the internet and have to turn to using other people's ideas. yahoo will fall and so will microsoft. these archaic IT companies simply refuse to listen to their customers and so fail horribly. its the way it works now.
- rudy23, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7you must have 563846452287 friends in your extended network. coooooool.
- rudy23, on 11/14/2007, -1/+7I personally havent visited yahoo in ages. their homepage is bloated crap and their mail client i too slow in loading.
- brentinkc, on 11/15/2007, -13/+19What? Is this 1998? Who cares what Yahoo says.
- bitspace, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Facebook as a platform is a flash in the pan. It is largely irrelevant. I think form3hide's comment above about it being like AOL is pretty accurate.
- StarWarsFever, on 11/15/2007, -5/+11Am i the only one that hates these social networking pieces of crap? I can see how MySpace is good for up and coming bands and PR... but my god, L2 go outside and make friends IRL!. I'm tired of pokes and super pokes and ub3r walls of paintbrush hell. C'mon now....
- Arcanis, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6You are not. I think it's overrated, just as all other social networking ***** is
- rAid135, on 11/15/2007, -3/+8POKE POKE POKE POKE
- form3hide, on 11/15/2007, -5/+9Is it just me or is Facebook a glorified version of AOL?
- SpykerSpeed, on 11/14/2007, -1/+5There's never going to be a "swiss army knife" of the internet. Certain sites excel at certain things, and only the very casual users fall for the "one site for everything" mantra.
- hasahugedig, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4"...Future will be modeled on Facebook," gawd, I hope not.
- t1m0j5, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4or want to find a date that is 14
- nekochan, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3my facebook doesn't show my address and phone number. because i never told it. you're only as secure as the stuff you enter in the first place.
- physicx, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4Google is also stating the same, this is getting interesting.
- OSURoss, on 11/15/2007, -2/+5Ooo...you got dugg down; I wonder which PR agency Yahoo retained to post their corporate propaganda and to bury their detractors
- QuickeningYak, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4No, it won't.
- vanza001, on 11/14/2007, -2/+5I'd have to agree with this blog. Everyone I know has a facebook. EVERYONE. Not just the tech savy people at work. Every single person I know has either a facebook or myspace. I'd be pressed to find someone with neither. Why would I not have one? I use the net to communicate. It facilitates communication with EVERYONE not just diggers or ppl who check email alot. Everyone is a BIG idea. Alot of people < EVERYONE.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3Am I wrong, or did Yahoo not say anything about Facebook.
- freezeout, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4do they mean the future will be built on so called "apps" that are completely useless? I'll pass
- vocalyouth, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3while a few of the facebook applications are useful (I use ProjectPlaylist and Digg) most have no value at all and make facebook even more annoying than myspace to use. I wish there was a way to turn them off. I loved facebook when I first joined due to how clean and simple it was and they ruined it.
- cgruber, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4Geocities ftw
- Jeffler, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3Yeah, you know, I'm a kid in a Canadian high school. About 95% of the school has a facebook account, and thats not exaggerating, if anything it may be higher.
I tried to stay away, but Facebook is beyond massive in Canada and nearly a necessity if your in high school or university. - doomeyes, on 11/15/2007, -2/+4Yeah, the future of email and start pages is in social networking...if you're 14.
- Otto, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3>>>"It facilitates communication with EVERYONE not just diggers or ppl who check email alot."
Actually, it only facilitates communication with people who check Facebook a lot. - meruru, on 11/14/2007, -2/+4I bet you still have Gmail though
- binaryloop, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3As soon as I found out Microsoft had invested in them I canceled my account. Facebook isn't all that. People make it out to be some amazing new technology that will revolutionize the world. I see it as a way for companies and marketers to know everything about me and follow my every move. Now, instead of randomly targeting me for ads based on demographics they can follow me around and spam the crap out of me with customized information. Just what the world needs. :-(
- wellyuk, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2There is a way to turn them off - don't accept "super poke" etc. invites or delete them. I have two facebook applications - photos and groups. That's my lot. I get inundated with invites for super poke, ninja vs pirate etc. applications but I just ignore them. Do the same. My facebook profile is clean and simple.
- tomy265, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2social networking sites/e-mail should stay separated. i tend to view e-mail as more important and facebook messages as casual.
On another thought... one must think of spam prevention that facebook messaging entails... - Stevethegreat, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2Having said that, while facebook does well what Myspace didn't, social networks have a long way to go before they become the leading edge of the web. For example Sony's Home sounds like a great alternative, fusing social networking with SL like 3d graphics.
The future of the Internet will be more social, but most importantly more interactive, we still live in the static web of 90s..... - ubergeek09, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2What? I do hope the future isn't "modeled on facebook" that would be really stupid.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2Two points: First, if everyone on Facebook was allocated email space it WOULD just be AOL. Second, Yahoo! has clearly adopted Microsoft's fan boy business model of chasing and copying every "new" idea that comes along, then makes a poorly-built imitation instead of developing the organic ideas of the people they employ. The real interesting work that engineers at Yahoo! create regularly gets squashed by management in Microsoft-like fashion.
- ieatsmurfs, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2poke
- zachshmack, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Basically, you can sit around for hours and find out what every single person you were ever friends with (or maybe just met once) ate for lunch, what they wore to that skanky party, who they're voting for, and what they're writing on other people's Walls.
- abeautifulplace, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1I can see their point here and all but the fact is that social notworking is never going to be universally popular. Like a lot of people, i'd rather not tell everyone what i'm doing all the time and have people watch me so i very rarely use my myspace/facebook accounts, and loads of other people are the same. Until these sits seriously improve privact options then they'll never be 'the future' because at the moment email supplies all that i need. Simple. direct communication. Why would anyone need anything more complicated? Sometimes it's all about the basics.
- demiurgency, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1forget it. bluetrevian has already demonstrated he can't read, so your advice is doomed to go unheeded.
every advance in technology leaves behind technology orphans, people who are just plain close-minded. there's not much you can do for them. it's just Darwinism at work. - 1longtime, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2Um, on Facebook there's a button labeled "Privacy."
Click it, and magical things will happen (like a bunch of privacy preferences that YOU can choose, oh goody!) - techmonkey4u, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Social networking is not the end-all, be-all. It's just the latest thing and it's getting pretty old.
- vanza001, on 11/16/2007, -0/+1Well the facebook only started when I was like a junior in college so everyone I knew already had pubes but they still used and still use the facebook
- QuickeningYak, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2And yet strangely, it's still *****.
- phaed, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2EVERYONE I know grew out of that stage when they started growing pubes.
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