Comments on: RIP Facebook?

By: Matt, San Antonio, Texas

Matt, San Antonio, Texas — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:08:21 +0000

And what do we see 9 months later, but Facebook still going strong and with a new look?

Facebook isn’t going away. The reason this blog is just wrong is because it proceeds from a false assumption; that any majority of users of Facebook give a flying crap that their surfing habits are tracked outside of the site.

Sure they know it happens, so it gives them an advert that is specifically targeted to them, that is more likely for them to click, isn’t that how to get advertising to be more pleasurable? Adverts you want to see, for products you want to buy, rather than annoying irrelevant-to-your-life stuff?

Beacon is about as privacy infringing as putting the number of your house on the door of your house. After all you’re advertising where you live, and which block you’re on, right? And the postman gets to know where to deliver the letters. OH MY GOD. Imagine a world where the McDonalds down the road sends you a coupon for a free Big Mac, or a more terrible scenario where Jamba Juice offers you a free shake (I just got one of these, I can’t say I am particularly angry about getting a free smoothie) just because you live half a mile away.

What a shocking world THAT would be.

By: Tatiana Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tatiana Montreal, Quebec, Canada — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:25:15 +0000

Listen up everyone, facebook can have it’s downfalls but it is honestly one of the most efficient networking spaces on the internet. People find people they haven’t seen in ages, i found my job on facebook as a designer now for 2 years im glad to say that i will never be agaisnt it. Ok so a percentage people abuse it but that doesnt mean the other 50 million people using it need to be penalized! People usually put something down because they are insecure about it…so to all those who wish facebook goes down in flames get a life no ones bothering you!

By: facebook user from uranus

facebook user from uranus — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:22:22 +0000

the author of this entry is just pissed that the guy who created facebook is making a bazillion times more money than he is. Obviously, these entries on how facebook “sucks” isn’t changing peoples attitudes about it. So stop whining.

By: Neelam, London, UK

Neelam, London, UK — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:55:34 +0000

Oh boy! Facebook..love it or hate it, its there, to stay, at least for now. 179 comments on this post
The people who have used it/ are using it..can also turn it down and walk away from it..all this viciousness and criticism does not make too much of a difference. Checking facts before posting would help

By: Daniel Culveyhouse, San Francisco CA

Daniel Culveyhouse, San Francisco CA — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:45:02 +0000

I was skeptical about Facebook from the beginning, and the true intentions of a platform that exploded overnight. I am not surprised that they got caught in their own minefield. I love how just like Google, Facebook advertises how “they hire really smart people.” I think this decade reveals that “smart” has a lot of different meanings that we’re not familiar with.

By: Jason Schrock, Wheaton IL

Jason Schrock, Wheaton IL — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:04:21 +0000

If i and a number of my friends are any indication of the future trend, and I hope so, Michael Doyle is wrong. Facebook DOES turn us away. I am really bored by it. The only value it has is in keeping me in contact with old friends. Everything else is an increasing annoyance.

By: Michael Doyle, Auburn, AL

Michael Doyle, Auburn, AL — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:53:13 +0000

I really dont think all you old people know just how addicted kids are to facebook. Its not just a fad, its not just another distraction, its controlling peoples lives. If your in high school or college facebook is your world. Its almost like a real place that everyone goes to everyday, and if you dont have a profile its almost as if you dont exist. Girls take cameras EVERYWHERE they go in order to take pictures and upload them to facebook. Why? So that when you look at her profile and click on her tagged pictures you see that she parties a lot and is a very busy person. In reality most of these girls are not doing anything important at all and take 30 pictures a night to make it seem like their important. Facebook has raised the bar of how superficial people are these days.

By: Greg Thompson, Rockville, MD

Greg Thompson, Rockville, MD — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:06:52 +0000

I’m pretty sure that since Facebook isn’t the Federal Government, it doesn’t have to worry about abiding by the First Amendment.

By: Andy Rock, Leeds, UK

Andy Rock, Leeds, UK — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:16:26 +0000

RE: Harper Stephens’ comment about sentences beginning with ‘and’, I can’t believe there are actually _any_ beginning with the word in this ‘article’ at all. Is Josh supposed to be a journalist with that grammar? Seriously?

By: ballmer, Redmond WA.

ballmer, Redmond WA. — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:39:03 +0000

Poppy cock!
Facebook is a great company which with the help of Microsoft will be around forever!
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By: G, Kitchener, ON

G, Kitchener, ON — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:29:30 +0000

I joined Facebook so I could see the travel photos that a young relative was posting there. I find that Facebook has positive and negative aspects. The positive is that it is a common space where my friends and relatives can meet virtually, whereas few of them visit my own website. One of the negative things is that I discovered that some of my relatives aren’t too bright. They insist on posting some of the hoax spam of the kind that one finds listed on Snopes.com. There are too many frivolous applications that your “friends” insist that you install. (No I don’t want to be bitten by a vampire!). However, I think that the various social sites such as Facebook have value and, as they evolve, the overall usefulness may improve.

By: Haggie, San Francisco, CA

Haggie, San Francisco, CA — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:18:47 +0000

Facebook is about as cool and hip as a Members Only jacket. It’s yesterday’s news. It’s the new Friendster. Sure, everyone has an account, but I’m sure that their internal metrics dropping like a stone…

By: kellneriner, sydney

kellneriner, sydney — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:47:03 +0000

this is seriously one funny article. it is biased and have no backups whatsoever. at all. mr quittner dear, mayb u shud rethink bout writing an article like dis da nxt time u wnt to write smthng as controversial as dis. i am a regular user of facebook n i find no harms using it. like a previous commenter has said b4, as long as u dont let it overtake ur privacy n adding irrelevant applications and adding strangers, fb can b quite fun and useful. i use it everyday 2 cintact wit my sis whos in UK. so long live faCebook! or watever.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:48:58 +0000

If you are going talk about Facebook in an educational fashion, then learn about it before talking. Facebook’s fastest growing demographic is 25 and older. It grows at 3% a week. If you think Facebook is dead then please prove me wrong, but when this beacon story first hit there were nearly 50 million users and now there are more than 57 million users. Roughly 15% increase. And yet, only .1% of those 57 million are in a group called, “Petition: Facebook, stop invading my privacy!”

Please prove me wrong. b30media@gmail.com

By: concerned, NYC, NY

concerned, NYC, NY — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:29:14 +0000

easy how-to on blocking facebook from receiving info via beacon

http://blockthefacebook.com

By: inspiredbydiabetes

inspiredbydiabetes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:36:17 +0000

I don’t think that FB is dead but it is peaking. I’m sick of all the requests to add applications. Who needs a fun wall and a super poke? it’s fine the way it was. just don’t add the apps. As far as I’m concerned, they are cluttering the pages and turning it into another myspace.

By: Gaurav Gurbaxani

Gaurav Gurbaxani — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:53:18 +0000

Every single company including your very own Google had its ups and downs. Google was in a soup when they introduced their very own Gmail.

People cribbed about invasion of privacy and how can they scan through the contents of our emails was the hot question of the month. Today, Gmail stands strong as ever and is probably the worlds largest email provider worldwide.

Bad PR is part and parcel for every new company. I would say that these a devious strategies deployed by other companies which are just trying to get a piece of the PIE

Facebook is aliving and ticking!

By: chris chicago, il

chris chicago, il — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:43:32 +0000

Faceb ook and myspace are just a fad. We unforutnately had to block those sites at our work after numerous requests to our employees to spend their time on it not ours.It is just the latest distraction for people. It does serve a purpose and has value and merit. But it has been overhyped by a media that is crazed to make something out of nothing.

By: Daniel Laury, CA

Daniel Laury, CA — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:17:55 +0000

Reports of FB’s death are greatly exaggerated! With 60 million users, it’ll take time before they see the repercussion of this. Which doesn’t mean that they couldn’t face new competition from a better and stickier site in the future or even from MySpace, but this is a different subject. It’s more like the nature of an increasing volatility of young users jumping from a trendy spot to the next one.

By: Harper Stephens, Richmond VA

Harper Stephens, Richmond VA — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:42:15 +0000

wow, shockingly my earlier comment about the article has vanished. It was posted, and now it’s gone. There seem to be fewer sentences starting with “and” too.