The End of Facebook?

[idk]

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-09/tech/30015171_1_privacy-settings-facebook-account-privacy-concerns

Thoughts?

I am not quite sure they are capable of doing it. I am not too well-read on the things they have done in the past, but I do agree with them that Facebook has gone too far with our private information. Yes, we should have been careful when giving it to Facebook, but there is a problem with asking for more information for a promise of security and make it nearly impossible for people to delete their profiles.

[mandude]

Psh. Don't like the service, don't use the service. What happened to consumer responsibility?

I'm all for Facebook's inexistence, however.

[idk]

For many people it's not that simple. Some people don't realize they don't like it until after they try it, and at that point it's too late, and it's damned near impossible to get their personal information away from facebook.

On a slightly different note: Facebook is fucking creepy. So at a community college I went to there was a girl in my class from Germany. We never exchanged any contact info whatsoever with one another, and we had absolutely zero mutual friends (I would find out for sure later, but it wasn't a bad assumption since she was from Germany), but when I was about to add her, it only took me typing in the first three letters of her first name for her picture to pop up at the top of the results. The only thing this girl and I had in common was that we were in one class together. They must have somehow been able to link us that way. I can't think of any other possible way that she would pop up as the first result when we had no mutual friends or even exchanged text messages or emails. Facebook doesn't have my mobile number anyway. Each time they asked, I skipped.

[Jinxieminx]

According to one tipster, Facebook would not be "destroyed," per se. What's more likely to happen is a DDoS (denial of service) attack on Facebook which could, if successful, prevent users from reaching the site for anywhere from minutes to hours.

There you go. Facebook will live on.

[idk]

According to one tipster. Don't underestimate Anonymous.

[Jinxieminx]

It won't make any difference, people will just move on to google+ and they'll start doing the same shit eventually. They have a losing battle on their hands.

[mandude]

Google already have our information, anyway. Google+ makes it easier to ignore shitheads as well.

[idk]

I have yet to meet anyone who uses Google+. I have an account, but I didn't know I did. Weird.

[little.aimee.jo]

They do have a valid point there though to be fair.

[Prophet]

Google already have our information, anyway. Google+ makes it easier to ignore shitheads as well.

yeah, I ain't big on social networking to begin with, but that is the only thing that really has kept me coming back to using Google+, facebook's hella trash in that regard

well, that and apparently all of the tech dudes I used to watch on Tech TV all hang out there, so out of pure nostalgia I decided to follow them; I do however think that it needs something else to help it stand out among the shitty social networking sites out there

[Gem.]

Meh. Who cares. Facebook is shit anyway... Only good for the games and even theyre not all that great.

[idk]

Eventually Facebook will probably become Myspace.

[Gem.]

Mhmm and we'll all move on to something else which will turn out to be just as crap, and so the cycle continues. :/

[Shane]

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-09/tech/30015171_1_privacy-settings-facebook-account-privacy-concerns

Thoughts?

I am not quite sure they are capable of doing it. I am not too well-read on the things they have done in the past, but I do agree with them that Facebook has gone too far with our private information. Yes, we should have been careful when giving it to Facebook, but there is a problem with asking for more information for a promise of security and make it nearly impossible for people to delete their profiles.

They can do what they like with my info. It's not like all my shit isn't publicly available all over the internet anyway.

I don't like facebook, though it does serve a purpose for myself and millions of others. For this reason i don;t think it's going to fail anytime soon.

[kirsch]

seriously what is facebook?


Don't like the service, don't use the service.

shut the fuck up


Don't underestimate Anonymous.

shut the fuck up


Only good for the games...

you especially shut the fuck up


if you give out information on the internet and you are not lying you are prolly stupid

but THE MACHINE (ie. google) already knows everything it wants to know about you so who cares? It is all just marketing BS to target advertisements , why would anyone care? What do they think their precious information is being used for? The government wants to know how many hours you spend playing farmville? If facebook is a problem then we better just shut down the whole darn intronet.. which is something I think we should consider

[mandude]

if you give out information on the internet and you are not lying you are prolly stupidUntil the scary phantom internet people use my information to brutally mutilate my genitals before skewering my head on their own dicks, then I don't see your point.

[idk]

Facebook didn't end. The world is the same. Oh well.

[Eureka]

still here bitches

[andrea17]

I've never been on Facebook - mostly because I don't see why I should jump on some bandwagon.

[Claireapillar]

I prefer google + nowadays tbh, and still try to keep mine pretty active, but people got bored of it too quick and it's pretty much dead again now. I have one, possibly two people on there that actually use it.

I use facebook daily anyway though, and even though it does have it's problems and issues, it's still the easiest and quickest way to talk to friends and family in different countries and such. Emailing's pretty much dead for me nowadays

[idk]

No one here (USA) really uses google +.

[Giggle Monster]

I have Google+ but am too lazy to track down everyone I know who also has one, so I have like 5 people in my circles.

[Claireapillar]

haha I was like that at first with it. Mainly because I was all ''I already have all these people on facebook''. But a few of my friends have abandoned fb altogether, and just use google plus now. They're the only two who still use it now, and are both from the U.S. Some people just have too many different accounts to manage I think too: Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Tumblr, seperate blogging sites e.t.c So I guess it wasn't ever really going to be that successful because they were kinda too late in the game

edit: Also, I circled you on google + Jessi :) (hope you don't mind)

[Gem.]

Ive never bothered to use Google + ... have enough people on FB. Plus Ive learnt not to share too much on the interwebs anyways :P

[CBcinema]

No they better not. Took me ages to move from Myspace to Facebook. They better not pull that crap again.

[Prophet]

they will pull some shit yo, but it'll be the kind of shit where you won't have an Internet to go to