Facebook owns you

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A mega-step down the F@cebook road... and maybe a shark-jump
(bold is mine)


Facebook's "profound" changes previewed
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"This is your life"-style timeline will detail everything about you and yours
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By Hendrik Pape, Reader review September 24, 2011 1:02 PM

For the past few weeks we’ve been hearing about these changes Facebook had been rolling out;
Some people had them, others didn’t.
But on Wednesday that all changed as Facebook finally shared a major overhaul
of its news feed to all of its subscribers.
The majority of users reacted quickly and strongly against the overhaul
which saw a real-time ticker appear at the top right of the profile.
This ticker contains all of the likes and comments, de-cluttering the news feed.
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Your timeline profile starts with a cover photo that identifies you.
Much like before you can chose your photo out of your existing photos or you can upload a new one.
Next in line is your profile photo along with the information that used to be under your info tab,
with the addition of a map to show your check-ins to give people an idea of places you’ve visited,
putting a new emphasis on Facebook places.

The status line now adds a few extra options.
First up is a work button, this lets you add a job, a graduation, military service or other life event
Next in line are matters of the heart, represented by a heart, of course.
Here you add engagements, marriages, children, pets, and the loss of a loved one or other life events.
The list goes on with Home life and even has the option to add broken bones, surgeries, new languages and so on.

In short if it’s something that you’ve done, or experienced you will have the opportunity to share it on Facebook.
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Timeline wasn’t the only thing that Facebook unveiled at the F8,
if anything it was simply the dressing for Open Graph.
Open Graph will change everything about Facebook and how we share our information.
“Today we’re making it possible to create a whole new class of apps and change industries at the same time,” Zuckerberg stated.
Open Graph will allow developers to create apps that allow users what they are doing.
There are three parts to Open Grap:
- First apps will no longer ask for permission to post to Facebook.
Rather a permissions screen will appear explaining exactly what information will be shared,
once permission has been granted the user will not be prompted again.
- Next, updates through Open Graph will automatically appear in the ticker but only important events appear in the newsfeed.
- Finally users will have the ability to share experiences,
such as listening to music, through the new Facebook Open Graph and the ticker.

Open Graph apps will be split into four categories: Communication, Games, Media and Lifestyle.

The bottom line is that by the time Facebook’s evolution is complete
it will be much more than a social network.
It will be a portal that will profoundly change the way we work and play online.

My hope is that Wikileaks will publish an expose of what is happening to all this personal information and real-time snooping.
I expect to close my FB account if I can't keep everything limited to my "closest friends"

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With 'real-time' apps, Facebook is always watching
September 23, 2011|By John D. Sutter, CNN



Survery Shows People Upset Over Facebook Changes
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | September 24, 2011 3:52 PM EDT

In a survey of over 1,000 people conducted by Sodahead, a social-voting based site,
around 86 percent of the Facebook audience said they strongly disliked the changes that*the site*recently underwent.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the F8 technology conference Thursday
that the changes will help build "a completely new class of social apps"
allowing users to share every facet of their lives on the site, according to CNET.
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"[b]All those activities people perform with these apps
--listening to a Bjork tune, reading about same-sex marriage laws,
cooking Arroz con Pollo, running four miles, donating to Amnesty International--[/B
will be stored permanently and made accessible (if the user allows it)
on a greatly enhanced profile page that will essentially become a remote-control autobiography,"
wrote Wired's Steven Levy on the new updates.

[classicman]

I'm still hating it. I want the f*cking rolling thing to go away. Thats what my newsfeed is for. What purpose does it serve? NONE. Its distracting annoying and takes up space.
Additionally, the default set for every friend is "Most updates" How the hell does it know whether I want to see/read a certain update? The only way to change this (that I've found) is to change it manually for every friend. Well I've got several hundred friends. That friggin ridiculous to expect me to change every one of them. F*ckin F*ckers.
Oh, the other option is "Only important" ... How do they determine what is important.
With the onset of Google+ this was the WORST THING they could have done.

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I just came across this interview with the CEO of Spotify
talking about their use of and connection with F@acebook.
It's not too long, and the reporter does a good job of asking questions,
so it's pretty informative.

(For me, it's all the more reason to close my FB account !)

Spotify's Parks Sees Benefits From Facebook Partnership

[classicman]

Yeh, those on FB are the commodity being sold. What you let them sell used to be more in YOUR control. They have taken virtually all of it away.

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Alt Text: Facebook, Google Battle for Hearts and Minds of Jerks
By Lore Sjöberg September 23, 2011

Facebook has been revamping with the speed and intensity of a traditional revamping master,
in its constant battle to beat out Google for “total number of users pissed off by free services.”

It's not hard to irritate people on a social media site, of course.
The two easiest ways to do it are:
1. Change something.
2. Don’t change anything.
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“Make no mistake,” said the head of Facebook’s Department of Fictional Public Relations.
“We are here to stay.
We won’t rest until every person on earth with an internet connection
is posting to Facebook about how much Facebook sucks.”

Google’s Head of Apocryphal Statements countered, saying,
“Google has one thing Facebook doesn’t:
our mantra, ‘Don’t be evil.’
That philosophy guarantees that people will go completely puppy-slappingly berserk
whenever we do anything even slightly dubious.
It’s that resentment that will carry us into the 22nd century.”

While the two companies have the same goal, their approaches are very different.
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Meanwhile, former media darling Twitter is suffering
from widespread lack of discontent among its users,
and the company is left grasping for fresh new ways to irritate consumers.
While service outages and confusing changes kept users enraged and engaged for a while,
Twitter’s recent dust-up with developers barely raised the blogosphere’s blood pressure,
and the microblogging service was forced to discontinue the policy in the face of white-hot indifference.

[classicman]

[Gravdigr]

Recently, FB asked me if I wanted to friend 239 people. Turns out, they are all friends of one of my friends' friends.

And that's only one of the thousands and thousands of things I just don't get about FB.

All in all, ƒukkit.

[Gravdigr]

And if Zuckerberg really did steal it, ƒuck him too.

Know what? ƒuck him anyway. Rich bastidge.

[infinite monkey]

I haven't been on facebook in a while. I'm afraid to go, now.

But I love this commercial! "This is living." That girl cracks me up.

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Just logged into my FB account...

There are 30+ screens (I quit scrolling there) of people saying
we have a "1 Mutual Friend" and they want to be my Friend.

I think Classic sent all his Friends over to my account.

[TheMercenary]

This is the most important bit of info I just received today! Everyone should be aware!

WARNING, PLEASE READ -Tomorrow, Facebook will change its privacy settings to allow Mark Zuckerberg to come into your house while you sleep and eat your brains with a grapefruit spoon. To stop this from happening go to Account> Home Invasion Settings> Cannibalism> Brains, and uncheck the “Tasty” box. Please copy and repost!

Hurry before we have a Zombie invasion! Hurry Dammit!

[classicman]

I think Classic sent all his Friends over to my account.

damn busted again.

[monster]

peeps, it's a free thing.......

[classicman]

mon-etarily speaking