Facebook taking over...well, everything.

RavenSEAL

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Any notice how all these big websites are starting to let you log in "with facebook"?

Next thing you know, getting pulled over by the cops and they are gonna ask for your facebook profile...


Is there a limit to how far this thing can ever expand?:hmm:
 

shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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it will die down eventually

Thats what they said about myspace.
You know what made myspace die down?

FUCKING FACEBOOK!
Now think about that for a second. WTF would it take to destroy facebook?
Do you even wanna think about that?
 

waggy

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i noticed it last night while playing my PS3. i beat a guy (on the PS3 move) and it took the picture and wanted to upload it to Facebook. i was like WTF thats insane.
 

lxskllr

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I don't like losing access to features. I know there's nothing useful there, but some companies have a "Visit us on Facebook" link, and I don't have Facebook. I always wonder what I'm missing :^D
 

RavenSEAL

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I don't like losing access to features. I know there's nothing useful there, but some companies have a "Visit us on Facebook" link, and I don't have Facebook. I always wonder what I'm missing :^D

A lot of companies do giveaways, contest, etc...just depends. The other day i won a code for Blacklight :tango down just for following the developer on facebook.
 

Bateluer

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Jun 23, 2001
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There are some Firefox addons that block Facebook entirely from the browser. Anti-social, I believe.
 

Homerboy

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Well, dumb in large numbers has an effect.

Why is it dumb?
It's great for business. Great for keeping up with large groups of friends and relatives. It's great for sharing info with large groups of friends and relatives.

Sure it has retarded aspects and members on it. Doesn't everything on the Internet? Think of the AT forums. Lots of GREAT uses. Many retarded ones too. I find it funny that some of the "Lifers" here, with 10s of thousands of posts here, are the loudest when it comes to saying FB is "stupid".
 

mizzou

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FUCKING FACEBOOK!
Now think about that for a second. WTF would it take to destroy facebook?
Do you even wanna think about that?

some sort of social site not totally bloated with ads and spyware perhaps

it's a vicious cycle
 

coxmaster

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some sort of social site not totally bloated with ads and spyware perhaps

it's a vicious cycle

Ads and spyware? Really? Just block the ads if they're that bad.

As for spyware, ive never seen any on facebook o_O
 

Spacehead

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Maybe we can add some more room under the usernames for Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. icons. I enjoy seeing stuff like this
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911paramedic

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Ads and spyware? Really? Just block the ads if they're that bad.

As for spyware, ive never seen any on facebook o_O

I don't know about spyware, but it sure in the hell farmed many of my email addresses. I checked on my profile(?) page and it had about seven emails listed, I only provided one when I joined years ago.

Not cool FB, not cool.
 

daw123

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Hopefully Facebook is just a phase the Internet is going through and it will die a death in time.
 

shortylickens

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Hopefully Facebook is just a phase the Internet is going through and it will die a death in time.

Like myspace?
Nope. People love virtual socializing. Thats why MMO's have only gotten more popular over the years. And why Facebook took over myspace and cellphones have TM's and IM's went away but only to be replaced by bigger and better things.

Not to mention forums like this one.

Online social life will never die, just evolve into bigger and better.
 

polarmystery

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As much as I dislike facebook, I agree that it will probably be here for the long haul. It's not going away, ever.
 

BrokenVisage

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As much as I dislike facebook, I agree that it will probably be here for the long haul. It's not going away, ever.

False. Much like MySpace something will come out that will try to improve on what people dislike about Facebook while keeping what they like about it. Only thing it will need is time to build the userbase.
 

gorcorps

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Jul 18, 2004
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False. Much like MySpace something will come out that will try to improve on what people dislike about Facebook while keeping what they like about it. Only thing it will need is time to build the userbase.

Disagree. Myspace was very rarely updated and was plagued with problems and such because you could inject damn near whatever code you wanted in it... so it was awful. Facebook has added clutter and apps, but it still much cleaner overall than myspace was. Now that it's being integrated into consoles, offering VERY popular casual games, and has native apps for all cell phones I don't think it's going anywhere.
 

Ns1

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I find it pretty convenient that I didn't have to create a separate account for Might & Magic and could instead log in with my facebook account
 

Ns1

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False. Much like MySpace something will come out that will try to improve on what people dislike about Facebook while keeping what they like about it. Only thing it will need is time to build the userbase.

isn't that basically what facebook did to myspace?

FB has permeated society WAY more than myspace/friendster ever did.
 
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Hating facebook is the new angsty in-thing to do. it's like goth kids boycotting prom in the 90s and shit when that sub-culture was kool.
 

shortylickens

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Hating facebook is the new angsty in-thing to do. it's like goth kids boycotting prom in the 90s and shit when that sub-culture was kool.

Then I cant do it any more. I was hating Facebook when it first came out. If everyone hates it now then I must be wrong, cuz the majority of people are freakin stupid. I cant be like them.