Facebook

[Aguila]

The Facebook lawsuit that hasn’t gone away

http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/15/the-facebook-lawsuit-that-hasnt-gone-away/

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2004/8/5/harvardGradsFaceOffAgainstThefacebookcom

I didnt know about this.

 

[BrewerFan]

I had no clue. Facebook has gone downhill anyways. Just the other day my mom joined for work and tried adding me. Everything us college students loves gets taken over by old people and teenagers!

 

[dezinerite]

I had no clue. Facebook has gone downhill anyways. Just the other day my mom joined for work and tried adding me. Everything us college students loves gets taken over by old people and teenagers!

I think it's great having them join online communities (incidentally I'm a college student as well). But It'd be really odd having my mum on my friends list!

 

[James]

wow, suprised they didn't pay them to shut up.

 

[sirengirl]

I had no clue. Facebook has gone downhill anyways. Just the other day my mom joined for work and tried adding me. Everything us college students loves gets taken over by old people and teenagers!

Hmmm...I believe the originator of facebook intended for it to grow beyond the college student set. Which, incidentally I am one as well. I also happen to be a "mom". While my son is only 6, the "old" part and your comment are very...
exclusionary. I don't believe facebook has gone downhill becuase your mom joined, in fact its growing exponentially. Myspace on the otherhand is a joke.

 

[deleted984054565403]

:imho: Allowing third-party "applications" for Facebook was a mistake. Many of these addons are very buggy or make the page look very sloppy and Myspace-ish. They're often full of ads and spam e-mails, which is incredibly annoying.

Facebook was growing at a fairly stable rate before allowing developers to cash in on it. While I'm a user of some applications like Graffiti and other tools that should have been included in the original application, many of them are unstable and unusable and detract from the simplicity that made Facebook what it was. :imho:

Don't get me wrong, I'll still be a Facebook user for a long time. I just think allowing buggy addons was a mistake.