Comments on: Facebook effin’ pwns! http://www.metafluence.com/facebook-effin-pwns/ This is beyond marketing, it is manipulation Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:15:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: sabrina http://www.metafluence.com/facebook-effin-pwns/#comment-13 sabrina Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:17:41 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/?p=18#comment-13 My superficial gripe is that you only get one picture to see before you become friends. (I know the idea is facebook) The inability of people to choose an interesting/honest personal portrait is annoying on any social network. I don't want to be friends until I know we have something in common- is that not with the spirit of the thing? Just checking... My superficial gripe is that you only get one picture to see before you become friends. (I know the idea is facebook) The inability of people to choose an interesting/honest personal portrait is annoying on any social network. I don’t want to be friends until I know we have something in common- is that not with the spirit of the thing?

Just checking…

]]> By: John Trent http://www.metafluence.com/facebook-effin-pwns/#comment-7 John Trent Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:29:56 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/?p=18#comment-7 I'm making this comment fast but I might add some later (my laptop battery is about to die!). But just so that you know they just added the feed and the mini-feed to the pages that tells you what your friends have updated and what not on a day to day bases. There was actually a pretty big uproar about the fact that people felt as though there privacy had been invaded because the mistake of facebook was not giving the user control of letting them choose what people saw and who saw it and so on. They just released it with no controls (user wise) at all. Many Facebook groups and petitions were made protestings this new feature (which made me proud, but they wanted to get rid of it completely which is of course not a good idea in my mind because of the fact that the feed is such a great way to to easy stay connected with your friends on facebook and what they're up to) facebook actually did listen and changed the settings and made formal apologies to all of the users. Overall, facebook is a great place for college students and high school students to keep in touch with those the graduated with and even meet new people without having to worry about all the shit of Myspace. Thats my 12cents (i'm a baller, so I have more than 2, haha). I’m making this comment fast but I might add some later (my laptop battery is about to die!). But just so that you know they just added the feed and the mini-feed to the pages that tells you what your friends have updated and what not on a day to day bases.

There was actually a pretty big uproar about the fact that people felt as though there privacy had been invaded because the mistake of facebook was not giving the user control of letting them choose what people saw and who saw it and so on. They just released it with no controls (user wise) at all.

Many Facebook groups and petitions were made protestings this new feature (which made me proud, but they wanted to get rid of it completely which is of course not a good idea in my mind because of the fact that the feed is such a great way to to easy stay connected with your friends on facebook and what they’re up to) facebook actually did listen and changed the settings and made formal apologies to all of the users.

Overall, facebook is a great place for college students and high school students to keep in touch with those the graduated with and even meet new people without having to worry about all the shit of Myspace.

Thats my 12cents (i’m a baller, so I have more than 2, haha).

]]> By: Chris Griffin http://www.metafluence.com/facebook-effin-pwns/#comment-4 Chris Griffin Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:20:13 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/?p=18#comment-4 I signed up for Facebook earlier this week when they opened it to the public and I was impressed myself, except that it doesn't feel like home because I can't put up my pink glitter background and use my favorite font of all time, Comic Sans! One other con to MySpace is Facebook has around 9 million users compared to the 113 million on MySpace (granted that number is inflated with thousands of spam bots, cyber girls, and fake music artists accounts). Which obviously means you won't find as many friends as you would on MySpace. The thing about the network segmentation is they pretty much have to do that to keep the O.G. facebook users happy. These users moved over to Facebook because it feels like an upper class neighborhood compared to the MySpace ghetto. I don't know if you keep up with news on all of this but there was a huge uproar among Facebook users because of a few features that Facebook added that some people felt invaded their privacy a couple weeks ago. Anyways I hate MySpace. MySpace has made it apparent that they don't care to improve anything. I think the 2 biggest things they've added since I been on MySpace (and I've been on MySpace for quite awhile) is the ability to change your top 8 and to change the number of top friends........whoopie! Facebook has made bigger changes than that in the last month. I signed up for Facebook earlier this week when they opened it to the public and I was impressed myself, except that it doesn’t feel like home because I can’t put up my pink glitter background and use my favorite font of all time, Comic Sans!

One other con to MySpace is Facebook has around 9 million users compared to the 113 million on MySpace (granted that number is inflated with thousands of spam bots, cyber girls, and fake music artists accounts). Which obviously means you won’t find as many friends as you would on MySpace.

The thing about the network segmentation is they pretty much have to do that to keep the O.G. facebook users happy. These users moved over to Facebook because it feels like an upper class neighborhood compared to the MySpace ghetto. I don’t know if you keep up with news on all of this but there was a huge uproar among Facebook users because of a few features that Facebook added that some people felt invaded their privacy a couple weeks ago.

Anyways I hate MySpace. MySpace has made it apparent that they don’t care to improve anything. I think the 2 biggest things they’ve added since I been on MySpace (and I’ve been on MySpace for quite awhile) is the ability to change your top 8 and to change the number of top friends……..whoopie! Facebook has made bigger changes than that in the last month.

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