I hate that red-headed little sh*t with a passion. Spoiled-rotten Harvard brat with no concern for the privacy OR safety of the masses. Do you have any idea how easy it is to get stalked on that death trap of a "social media" website? It's more like a social media SPIDER'S WEB! When I was a member, I remember going to another city, at least 60 miles away from my home, only to be confronted with some deranged "fangirl" who was convinced that she "knew me" thanks to FACEBOOK. I want my privacy back. I want my information back zuckerf#*ker, you little spineless IMP!

"Oh look at me! I'm friends with Obama now"! I didn't really dislike Obama until I saw that pathetic stunt he pulled with Zuckerberg, promoting facebook. As if it really needed more publicity.
Anyone who endorses this garbage while knowing the terrible impact it has on everything that constitutes our culture deserves to meet a gruesome end. Get into a fight with someone online? Don't worry- if you're one of the MILLIONS of people who don't know how to use the "improved" privacy settings on your much beloved facebook, then expect that bastard who you exchanged insults with to magically get your phone number and address.

DIE MARK ZUCKERBERG! YOU AND YOUR HORRIBLE WEBSITE MUST DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!
I hope you get caught up in one of those charming little flash mobs- those rapidly assembling groups of COWARDS who use YOUR CREATION to kill people and rob stores. I'd like to them break your undeserving neck, Zuckerberg, you hellspawned little twit! Drop dead!

Facebook users are bottom feeders anyway so who cares what they do or what happens to them!

Thank you, your post, though OT, was very intriguing to me.
(As someone without FB)
...Especially the part about "not replying if its not public".

Thanks

PS As a logical advise, you should reconsider your real friends.

I only started using facebook about six months ago. Since then some relatives and two old school friends have used it to reconnect - that's great, and the good aspect of facebook.

However, at the same time, facebook has also "suggested" a bunch of friends and friends of friends - up to fifty a day, i'd guess more than a thousand so far - some of them more than ten times each, some of them even appearing in the list multiply on the same day! One of them was a school bully, but because we went to the same school, facebook is convinced we should be friends.

Also, my friends who *are* on facebook gradually have become convinced of their own "star" status. After all, they have hundreds of "friends", right, so they are minor celebrities at least, right? They post the most inane things like "just had a haircut" and then expect friends to comment with "like" or "dislike" ..and everytime someone does, they become more convinced of their own celebrity status. If you DON'T comment .... you get cut from the "friends" list ...

Strangely, they are happy to write and talk to you on their "walls" where everyone can see how popular they must be because someone messaged them ... yet send them an email and it might never be answered at all...after all, no-one else could see that so it would be a wasted effort, right? Noone could see someone was talking to them?? Geeze, better discourage that ASAP... I know, i just won't answer until he posts it on the wall...that will bump my message and visit count up ....

I found it more and more disquietening all the time, because some of my friends personalities seem to be changing...they're becoming more extroverted, but also more egocentric......I already have friends on facebook who now talk about themselves in the third person.. "Roger is back! ...Roger got a new haircut!!... Roger doesn't like what's on TV tonight! ... yuck) Then when I discovered the IRS, Police, Social security, Law Firms, Employers, and basically everyone now trawls facebook routinely ... that was it for me. I already posted a goodbye message, I'm leaving the page up so friends and rellies can contact me but facebook can go **** itself. There are people reading this post right now who will regret what they've posted on facebook one day...(And even who their friends are ... some organisations are already using your choice of *FRIENDS* to help build negative psychological profiles of you)

You're not a sociopath if you don't care too much about random strangers, and there's such a thing as overdoing it, I'm sure every damn writer on zuckerberg wasn't a member of the peace corp while a student but the same self-centered person as the next one, empathy is rare, and very rare in the US and almost non-existent in journalist, and pretending for your own gain to care doesn't count really so don't even try to argue that.
And should I mention that this site (theinquirer) for instance has scripts and trackers and webugs from about 8 different advertising companies? (although many are owned by google by now, but that still leaves at least 3 or 4)

http://aproogle.com/network sign up it will be better for all of you :)

If I was at Hardvard, started a website and it was proving successful. And if I was 19 then I might say those same things in a private IM conversation.

If the site took off, made me a rich man, then I would probably mature and protect my nice little earner.

Perhaps we need a user protection law that protects our data from misuse and allows us to have our data deleted if we request it.

The term "Corporate State" is an interesting term and I expect we'll be seeing it again.

MIRC, ICQ, Orkut now FaceBook ... were and are all time leeches infact CIA's failed projects to make people document there every breath and the bitch word PROFILE them. like there is a PHAROH of each time ... there is an MIRC of each generation and FaceBook is yet another failed atempt to make people themslves document/profile their lives. What a hypocricy of people that on one side the prtest for privacy rights yet thry themselves are its negation.

Content you care about belongs on your own computers.

Hosting companies are an acceptable grey area, and your homepage at your ISP is probably OK too, but when you relinquish control of your data to a third party such as facebook, then you've lost it.

It's in my hosts file, so I can't get to it, nor see any ads linked from it.

to read some FB critique. Im sooo tired of all the hype, not to mention the *FREE* publicity (read: advertising) it gets from "visit us at our FB page"... just because some people nowadays thing that FB is "The Internet"

(puke)