(Hi this is my first post)
So anyway I was on Blockbuster.com updating my movie queue when a box popped up from something called Facebook Beacon asking me if I’d like everyone on Facebook to know that I just added movie X. Uhhh… no, Mr. Beacon I’d rather everyone not know my business. [You with me so far?] Annoyingly, it kept asking me with every selection I made so I went the Facebook to ask it “WTF?” To which it replied, “Move along. Nothing to see here.” To which I responded, “Mr. Beacon, How do I turn you off so you don’t know what I am doing.”
… No answer.
Now I find this little ditty on PCWorld: Beacon is not just Facebook’s new advertising vehicle, it’s a spy prgram. According to the article:
“Beacon will report back to Facebook on members’ activities on third-party sites that participate in Beacon even if the users are logged off from Facebook and have declined having their activities broadcast to their Facebook friends.”
To which I say get outta my face(book). No means no, so stop snooping around.
Here’s the article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140182-c,onlineprivacy/article.html
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This is not exactly about Charlottesville, but we will see what people think….
Like you, many people don’t like the “new” Beacon notification system. So yes, Facebook is gonna get out of your face.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7120916.stm
This is a telltale sign that facebook is on its way to the grave. “Web 2.0″ social networking sites get popular, boom for a few years until it becomes overrun with spam and advertising, and then eventually die when the next generation of social networking sites without spam and advertising offer cooler tools and options. Repeat. Facebook was really cool when it came out more than three years ago, but it started to get overrun by high school students and people that didn’t belong to any colleges or networks at all. Then the ads came.
another great reason not to be a facebook user.
no no no – Facebook is wonderful.
And I don’t just say that because I could conceivably be launching a product on the service in the next few months…
No, really, I don’t.
I used Facebook when the URL was http://www.thefacebook.com. Yeah, I’m THAT old! Which is to say… not that old.
The University of Virginia was one of the first non-Ivy schools to get Facebook, right? Now it’s about Charlottesville.
This was cute– a 2004 Cavalier Daily article about the expansion of Facebook to more schools AND the addition of the “Groups” and “Wall” features. Here’s another funny one about the students who created aliases as famous people, like Satan.
Congratulations UVA. That’s actually something to be proud of. How would you like your school to be the 82,714th? Someone’s it…
Yeah, I remember those days as well. I’m partially, if not completely, responsible for the dropoff in fake aliases after 2004. I was a bad boy
Sorry Thor…taking this to stratospheric heights of OT…
I recently received a Facebook thingummybob telling me that this hateful girl I went to school with wanted to make me, and I quote “Part of her Facebook Friend Network”. Well I replied to her that ‘…I would be delighted to join this sad group of complete losers if you have in fact undergone a total personality transplant, since I utterly despised you for the 5 years we went to school together and would rather stick my arse in a bucket of fresh lava rather than have anything remotely to do with you.’
I didn’t hear back from her….some people are just SO overly sensitive. I thought I showed great restraint.
Floozy – I know we’ve just “met”, but I think I love you…
Wow Oy… for all you know I could be down in ‘The Big House’ on Avon St Ext, dropping soap and calling two guys called Armando and Alan ‘my bitches’.
You fall EASY my leeee-tle friend….
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daggum – you’re trying to get me to propose here and now, aren’t you?
i didn’t know lilith and thor had a band…..
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19589643864
whoops, that’s cvillian, not villain
Ew, Facebook.
Not quite such a hole as Myspace, but still pretty worthless.