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Facebook is dead to me...and here's why

OK I don't mind getting invited to take tests, or quizzes etc. What I do detest is the fact that I take the damn tests and then it tells me I need to invite 20 friends to see my score. Well no more I tell you, no more. Facebook Notifications, Facebook test invites, no more please no more.

I notice no one has written the Facebook application "how much do you/will you hate facebook after signing up" yet. I see an opening for that, you just have to invite all your friends to be able to take it.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 02/10/2008 | Permalink

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1 - My solution - I never signed up for facebook, myspace, or any other social software sites ... not even those corporate "enterprise ready" ones Emoticon

Posted by Glen At 06:50:06 PM On 02/10/2008 | - Website - |

2 - I agree wholeheartedly. For the same reason, I never open any mail - some of it could be junk mail. And I definitely never read email, because a lot of that is spam.

It was suggested to me that I could simply decide to ignore the spam and continue to enjoy the other benefits of mail/email/Facebook, but that's just crazy talk.
Emoticon

Posted by Julian Woodward At 03:02:16 AM On 02/11/2008 | - Website - |

3 - Hmmm - that there/they're/their quiz really finished you off!
You're right, it was lame Emoticon

Posted by Cali At 07:55:34 AM On 02/11/2008 | - Website - |

4 - @3 Yep, that was the straw.

Posted by Carl Tyler At 08:12:31 AM On 02/11/2008 | - Website - |

5 - Like any application (e-mail, IM, etc.) there are aspects of FaceBook and the way that is it used by users that are time wasters. Right now, for me, the good outweighs the bad

Posted by Chris Pepin At 10:35:03 AM On 02/11/2008 | - Website - |

6 - Facebook is about data mining, Carl.

Nothing on there is made for the sake of the users. Every app is mining you for all sorts of data, and no matter what legal disclaimers Facebook uses, nobody notices for a second that 99% of the Facebook Apps aren't made by facebook at all, and aren't subject to any legal limitations.

This "Invite 20 too see your score" is just the setup. It won't be too long until somebody begins USING all the data, and by then, SPAM will seem like a walk in the park.

We're all suckers, really!

Posted by Lars Olufsen At 10:50:16 AM On 02/11/2008 | - Website - |

7 - Beat me to the posting, this was in my darn mind earlier this weekend

Posted by Chris Miller At 11:16:28 AM On 02/11/2008 | - Website - |