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Chroelle wrote:
eMTe wrote:I use Facebook in a totally opposite way Zuckerberg intends,
Well if you saw "The Social Network" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/ then you would know that he used it to find pretty women. :) So you are looking for ugly men???
Hey! Stop spreading random ideas! I use it to sell fine leather jackets!
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How many years later (?), and I still never have set foot on Facebook. I compare Facebook internet turf to a dark alley in NY city, where the thugs use fake smiles and promises of assistance to lure you into getting mugged.
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You're absolutely true, but I'm even worse, more dangerous to Facebook than it is to me. I am like virus. Traceable, fightable, but always mutating, thus not winnable.

Isnt it fascinating to walk the dark alley with courage?

The real fun starts when leather jackets really start to sell. ;)
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Chroelle wrote: And Pager - dont we all have a few guests in our basement? Some people you just want to invite over and over again - no matter how much they cry and tell you to "at least let the kids go"... :twisted:
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Duct tape, the handyman's secret weapon! :D

I just added you on FB, Chroelle. (In case you're wondering who "Graham" is) :)

In case anyone wants to add me. Just let me know who you are; I get a lot of spam FB invites.
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Hey, can I add you too? :D
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Accepted. Oh and now you can just delete the message I sent asking if it was you. :)
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Interesting fact related to the recent ACTA fuss. Facebook for many years allowed its members to be spied. How? If you knew somebody's mail address you could have just added it to the address book of your mail account and search for "friends". Then you got the list of your possible future friends with their mail accounts, of course ascribed to the proper Facebook accounts. Fun? Sure. As long as you want somebody with whom you exchange letters to know who you really are, how do you look and who are your friends or relatives.

Now this function (privacy "hole"?) is disabled, but probably many people/corporations used it to their advantage. But what's important - it probably was disabled, because somebody (or many people) discovered it. How is this fact related to ACTA? Well, people started to yell about censorship of internet, but they forgot that their own privacy should be censored. Lesson? Balance is important. As always. You can be free in internet, but you stand in the limelight at the very same time.
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I wonder why Facebook wants to kick itself in the ass. This timeline thingy makes it even less comfortable to navigate than (soon R.I.P.?) MySpace.
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I don't think MySpace will die (at least not as a platform for bands). Right at the moment they test a radio feature (similar to LastFM) which is easy to use, free and works very well. That might bring some people back that left when you had to register for even listening to the tracks of the artists.
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MySpace will die, but not because it is a platform only for bands and doesnt actually work in other aspects. It will die, because it will not be recapitalized - nobody believes that the site has a future.
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Some time ago I read somewhere that "Facebook" (I use quotation marks, because each system is actually people) reads messages of its users. Now I have the proof. I sent (NOT published on the wall) to two of my friends a photo from a recent trip to nearby town and this photo had the name of the town in its filename. All of a sudden I started receiving friend suggestions about people who live in this town.

Not that it scared me, because I don't mind who and why reads my messages - especially that I don't plan to bomb NY or kill people on one of Norwegian islands - but there are probably people on this world who would prefer "Facebook" not doing this.
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eMTe wrote:especially that I don't plan to bomb NY or kill people on one of Norwegian islands
Friend suggestions on CWF:
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- Anders Breivik
- Timothy McVeigh

I didn't know they scanned the messages for clues about possible friends, but I knew they did so for criminal activity. So don't plan them on Facebook.
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It's ok, fortunately we exchange our plans via Gmail.
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*badum-tisch*!
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Drasir-Vel wrote:*badum-tisch*!
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Yep, i know that site, i even have it on a hotkey as a sound file.
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Another breaking idea by Facebook - now you get information when somebody read your message. So you know that Thomas doesn't sleep at 3 am and Julia wakes up at 6, not at 7 as you always thought.

I guess it's creative block.
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Scythe wrote:Facebook is the devil. Just like any other new fad is. :D
Hehe, new fad!
... OMG, it's been 4 YEARS since you posted that!!
The Fad that won't go away!!!

http://facebook.com/Jayenkai Incase it wasn't obvious ;)
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jayenkai wrote:
Scythe wrote:Facebook is the devil. Just like any other new fad is. :D
Hehe, new fad!
... OMG, it's been 4 YEARS since you posted that!!
The Fad that won't go away!!!
I'm sure there are still weirdos out there that are waiting for "that internet fad" to go away as well :lol:
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