The official "The new Facebook is scaring the hell out of me" thread.

[U2democrat]

It now does the stalking for you!

 

[bono_212]

I like it

 

[U2democrat]

You're one of the very few.

 

[bono_212]

i know

why is it that everyone BUT me liked facebook before, and now I'm the only one who does like it

 

[U2democrat]

You like to stalk people?

 

[xaviMF22]

facebook

 

[impy13]

The minifeed deal is lame, but people need to stop making such a big deal about it. You can delete anything in your feed. I've written on several walls today, joined a new group, and was appointed officer of another. No one knows it but me because I deleted every story in my feed.

It's not THAT big of a deal.

 

[BonosBaby12]

Ive never tried Facebook

 

[Sevikins]

^It's like a sterile version of myspace for college students lol.

It's okay... I don't mind the minifeed much, but I may start doing what inmyplace does as well to be... not stalked.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

we didn't have facebook when i was in college... we had to do it the old fashioned way and stalk girls over aol.

 

[discothequeLP]

yeah

 

[amerrydeath]

But now my stalking is done for me. I don't even have to work for it. Even the stuff I DIDN'T want to know

 

[Canadiens1131]

Facebook has all the people from high school I don't really want to keep in touch with.

 

[U2democrat]

They've updated the privacy settings

 

[bono_212]

Yeah finally people have stopped talking about it

It creeps me out when people in real life talk about facebook...like not on the computer like I'm doing right now...but when the big story of the day is OMG They changed facebook...makes me worry about some people

 

[U2democrat]

Yeah...and it was all over the news too, in the Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, MSNBC, it was crazy...

 

[I'm Ready]

I deactivated my profile

I don't care if the revert back either, I've had enough with facebook anyways

 

[redhotswami]

At least they apologized for all the chaos with this new mini-feed. That was pretty cool of them.

I think they are just desperate to come up with tools unique from myspace.

 

[corianderstem]

So ... I'm the last person ever to sign up for Facebook?

I don't know what all this discussion is about, but I finally signed up tonight and am blown away by all the people I was friends with in high school and college I haven't talked to in years.

So far, I think it's pretty damn cool.

 

[DaveC]

I fuckin' hate Facebook, but I've still got an account.

For now, that is. I hear they're going to put ads on the discussion walls and make 'em look like they're coming from friends. That happens, and I'm getting rid of it that very day.

It was great when only college students had access

 

[Cin]

I find it boring and a bit of a waste of time.

Not like here which is really fun but also sucks away the hours like they were seconds.

 

[Angela Harlem]

What on earth is facebook, anyway? Is it like orkut or something?

 

[corianderstem]

It's a "social networking site," whatever that means in plain English. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a great way for me to reach out to old friends I might not ever have found otherwise.

And my brother, who never communicates with anyone in the family.

 

[Got Philk?]

This summer, I was working my usual walk through and lock buildings job. And I walked through a building and found someone's very nice/expensive phone.

My first thought was EBAY! But then I thought again and decided to look on it to find out who's it was.

I found a name of the owner, and I looked him up on the college website but...nothing there told me where he lived.

So I went to facebook. Not only did I find out his full name. I also found out what street he lived on, the cell phone number, his aim screenname, his home phone and address(ohio), his girlfriend's name(and yes, I did go on hers and could find her local address as well), and his plans for the night.

Best thing about it all was I found out on facebook he was trying to sell the cell phone I found that night. Weird.

 

[~BrightestStar~]

So ... I'm the last person ever to sign up for Facebook?

Nope.

I've yet to make the leap.

 

[corianderstem]

So I went to facebook. Not only did I find out his full name. I also found out what street he lived on, the cell phone number, his aim screenname, his home phone and address(ohio), his girlfriend's name(and yes, I did go on hers and could find her local address as well), and his plans for the night.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, I don't understand why anyone would post their address and phone number on the web.

I thought you couldn't view the profile info unless they had you as a "friend," or is that not correct?

 

[Cin]

oh there's ways around that. . . . . . . . . . so I've heard

 

[BoMac]

^ I think that's only if they didn't put themselves on the most stringent privacy setting, although, I don't know why anyone wouldn't.

And there's no way I'm putting my phone number and address anywhere on the Web. That's just dumb, imo.

 

[No spoken words]

I've not signed up for Facebook and likely never will. I'm in touch with everyone I want to be in touch with.

 

[~BrightestStar~]

How many times do I have to tell you to stop touching me?