Comments on: Boycott Facebook & Related Sites

By: Roxanne Darling

Roxanne Darling — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:48:59 +0000

That flash presentation is quite awesome Vern. Definitely something to think about. I am seeing more and more people trying to figure out how to completely clear their Facebook history. I am going to paste this link inside my FB account and see if it survives. They are known to filter content too.

By: VBrown

VBrown — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:27:02 +0000

This is pretty interesting – http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/facebook

By: vaspers aka steven e. streight

vaspers aka steven e. streight — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:01:43 +0000

I’ve tried to work with Facebook, but it really is just a glorified MySpace isn’t it? For college kids? One tiny step up from Xanga? Or Place 4 Friends?

Data mining your customers to push ads at them is so 1950s. God, these die-hard bozos would monetize air and sunshine if they thought they could make a quick buck at it, and don’t give a flying fig about who they annoy.

Only a fool thinks negative publicity is better than no publicity at all. That’s like “if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” Facebook has pretty much destroyed what ephemeral usefulness it might have seemed to have. Greed. Didn’t Enron teach us anything?

It’s so easy to Mutiny. Migrate. Move to _______. There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. You can move your group off Facebook and into Ning or Yippikaya or Tumblr or Virb or … etc.

I am here right now, due to Twitter being down. About to head off to Jaiku and Pownce and see what my pals are blabbering about over there. Probably how pathetic Twitter is.

:^)

By: Robin Anderson

Robin Anderson — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:03:58 +0000

Way to go Rox, I’m also with you on this! If enough people participate in the boycott, it could speak volumes in relation to all our rights, privacy issues or lack of, not just with Facebook but also in relation to what our country faces now. It always has been power to the people if we use it.
Robin

By: ET

ET — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:10:36 +0000

I am with you on this one Rox. I don’t mind a little data mining here and there for services rendered, but they cross the line on this one. I hope FB realizes that there are a number of other sites that we could migrate to in the drop of a hat!

By: Roxanne Darling

Roxanne Darling — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:52:09 +0000

Point taken Joe. But a drastic slowdown in traffic for a week would tell them a lot. I think it is time for the collective of users aka contributors aka “eyeballs” to realize the aggregated power we hold. Seems like the buyers and sellers have that nailed – and we are pawns. It’s a nice polite way to let them know what we like or don’t like.

By: Joe Philipson

Joe Philipson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:39:07 +0000

Wow, boycott facebook? Hmmm… I like what you’re saying and I really do believe that they’re getting out of line on this one but I am a manager of some serious groups and connections and have been a huge ‘social-networking/facebook’ advocate up until now… I’ll have to think of this one…