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This suspiciously sounds like a pro-FB post. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Not necessarily pro, more neutral... I use it for certain purposes, but manage what I use it for.
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I can make something useful with a tool.
Facebook is only useful to its customers. Also, don't confuse their customers with their users.
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Exactly, the age old adage is true, if you're not paying for something then you're not the customer. Someone is paying FB.. and for what... demographics I'd wager. Sure, some advertising revenue too, but I don't think that alone would make them so rich. So, in essence, with FB and Twitter, the users are the product.
Jeremy Falcon
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Facebook has the best profiling tool available to advertisers, perhaps next only to Google--and better yet (for them): People volunteer their information.
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I've switched over to MySpace.
I think that is going to be the big social media platform of the future and I want to be there before anyone else. 
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You ever hear of AOL? It's pretty sweet. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I was going to sign on but the requirements are 1200 baud (or better) modem.
I'm planning on upgrading my 300 baud soon. 
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raddevus wrote: I'm planning on upgrading my 300 baud soon
OOOO! A power user! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Get with the times you guys Compuserve is going to be the next big social phenomenon.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Oooooooooooh.... :drool:
Jeremy Falcon
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Pfft, slacker.
You should get with the times and check out these Bulletin Board Systems! There's tons of them and they all support a state-of-the-art serial synchronous communication mechanism!
LOTRD pwns.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Farcebook probably started as a really good idea - but then the morons arrived and judged their worth by their "friends" count; changed their relationship status every ten minutes to indicate to the world that they had an active sex life, if only in their imaginations; posted pictures of their breakfast; and generally indicated to that part of the world which could be bothered that their IQ was smaller than their shoe size and dropping rapidly.
And the morons rule, because advertising cr@p to 1,000,000,000 morons is a lot more financially rewarding than advertising relevant stuff to 12,000,000 intelligent people. So Farcebook lower the bar each time, and the average user IQ drops to the point where the rare intelligent comment is swamped into near oblivion.
Twatter is the same.
Break free: join the liberated!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Farcebook probably started as a really good idea
Sorry. It did not.
It was original created and used to mark people as "hot" or "not".
It was a lame idea and has been transformed into an even more lame idea. 
But, now that it's worth $50 bajillion everyone is like, "it's genius!! Right?!"
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And that's about the only good use I can think of for FB... meet chicks. Only problem is, they'll be the type of girls who are on FB. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: , they'll be the type of girls who are on FB.
All cats are grey in the dark... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Touché! 
Jeremy Falcon
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OriginalGriff wrote: Break free: join the liberated!
Totally, it's unfortunate, but all I see is "look at me, look at me" narcissistic type stuff on it now. We've gone from a world of taking pictures of the world to taking selfies of ourselves. Because God forbid I experience something without having other people on FB drooling over it. Anything of substance on there gets ignored... but post a butt pic or cats or a selfie then boom, you get some FB loving.
I suppose there's a place for it in the world, but I feel dumber every time I allow myself to stay on it and read crap.
Jeremy Falcon
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Use your HOSTS file to redirect it to something else?
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Loopback... and install a web server to listen to it that redirects local back to FB... which redirects back... and so on. That'll teach me for typing in the FB URL.
Jeremy Falcon
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While I can't understand how one became addict to FB - you have all my support...
Every time your fingers itches and try to write the URL, visit this[^] first...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I did it for the memes man.... memes I tell you... meeeeeeeemes... :drool: 
Jeremy Falcon
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There's the rub.
If any of you ever think of creating a social media app, at the top of your worry sheet, you should put:
0. What would Californians do with this?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I laugh, because I live in California right now...
Jeremy Falcon
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Delete your FB account. Is free.
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