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While there are some benefits to the whole 2.0 social networking thing, and this technology will probably add to our way of dealing with each other its ok. But as long as people have to eat (and hopefully together), meet to build consensus and understanding and physically "get together" to create another person, the human condition will always require real relationships and face-to-face exchanges - Facebook can help facilitate contact, but deep meaningful relationships in the name of collecting friends like beanie babies? I think not. Sometimes Facebook reminds me of the CB radio fad of the 70's - lots of chatter and no depth. Facebook may be an adjunct, but not a replacement for who we are as humans.

The Facebook company still thinks. they are on their precious little campus, at Harvard, where everybody knows everybody, and so they think, they can get away with such arrogant, elitist displays (not to mention, poor customer service), shutting CUSTOMERS accounts for little or no reason. INSTANT KARMA WILL GET YOU FACEBOOK! And they have the nerve to blame the customer for their own incompetence: don't invite people to use features on your sites (search, chat, messaging, applications, etc....), and then proceed to disable their accounts without expressing, the company's guidelines before or after, explaining what exactly "persistent misuse of our features" means.....Facebook's disabling policy is unprofessional, arbitrary and applied incoherently.

I agree with the article, why ban the user for using an application that they endorse?

If Facebook don't want users because of the application, then disable the app.  Sounds like a good way of losing your users and unless I was born under some rock, USERS are what makes a site valuable.

I can't see the point of Facebook. It's a total waste of time. The communities which are local to me (Newcastle) are mostly populated by a bunch of drunken, foul-mouthed dunderheads as far as I can see. Why would I want to join them?

One interesting person I found in one of the communities who lived in my home town, wrote a really witty piece, but I couldn't add her as a friend, because I would have had my account cancelled.

I don't see the point of having just your own circle of friends and family, because I already communicate with them by other methods. Why would I go into Facebook to communicate with them?

By the way, one day when I tried to access my account, I found that it had been closed for violation of their terms and conditions. What??? I had hardly used my account and I had not tried to contact anybody. I didn't have any email contact for Facebook and they didn't supply me with any contact details so that I could contest the decision. Consequently I searched on Google and eventually found a contact email address for them. After several emails back and forth, I got my account reinstated, because they had made a mistake. I found out that they thought I had been spamming. I only persisted, because I dislike injustice.

The people in charge clearly have issues and they should go and see a therapist. They need to decide what they are trying to be.

Here's a thing, they won't allow you to try to make friends with any strangers on Facebook, but they allow drunken, foul-mouthed lager louts to post their inane comments in the various communities! Duh!

Anyway, if you want to be my friend here's my profile on Yuwie and Myspace (sane applicants only LOL) and let me know what you think of my little rant :)

http://ww1.yuwie.com/profile/Default.asp?id=608518

myspace.com/brian_abbott

Regards,

Brian, England

 

I don't care what that email says, FaceBook is a social networking site. It may not have started out that way but it has evolved into that and if FaceBook tries to discourage it, they will be shooting themselves in the foot.

Like Sara, I use FaceBook along with some Ning sites to raise awareness for safety and security issues to drive visitors to my web site. If they made me stop making friends with people I've never met, I'd take my attention elsewhere. If enough people left the site for that reason, FaceBook's raffic would drop and their advertising revenue would suffer. All because their principle use has turned into something greater than they every imagined?

The demise of FaceBook for clinging to a dying ideal would definitely not make for a very good movie!

What!?! A Facebook Movie! How is  that going to work?!