Re: Facebook

[ms] & FB are 2 different things...both equally addictive!

Re: Facebook

I heard Microsoft recently purchased it. I don't like this new design they did....:what

Re: Facebook

[quote=miketpoto;601458]I dont even know what that means yet.

This is going to be an unhealthy obsession, I just know it.

Luckily I drink a lot.[/quote]

What if you drink and then get on facebook?? :unsure: Feed both addictions at the same time!!! :HolyShit: Like me!

:Tongue:

Re: Facebook

[quote=Shiva;650489][B]I heard Microsoft recently purchased it[/B]. I don't like this new design they did....:what[/quote]

+1

I dont like the new interface either, but hearing this it makes sense now

Re: Facebook

I used to be hooked on Facebook's SCrabulous...wasted all my time at work on that shit. Kinda glad it went away! lol

Nowadays I'm on there for e-mail, and sharing photos. And of course not to stalk people. wait is there an extra NOT in there?? 8)

Re: Facebook

new interface sucks balls. seriously. i could have done better, and i couldn't design my way out of a paper bag.

Re: Facebook

^ agreed!

the chat thing doesn work at work anymore! :(

Re: Facebook

[quote=Shiva;650489]I heard Microsoft recently purchased it.[/quote]

yeah i heard this too. so how come microsoft will get its money back from something which is free to make and keep your account??

Re: Facebook

^^^ paid ads

Re: Facebook

and if you think FB was first made by a few students in a university in the states to help people who used to go in that uni to find their classes from years ago and it was supposed to be used only by them!!

Re: Facebook

[quote=Shiva;650489]I heard Microsoft recently purchased it. I don't like this new design they did....:what[/quote] dind't hear about MS buying it

and I do like the new design

btw [SIZE=6]stop poking me! [/SIZE]:lol:

Re: Facebook

[quote=spyros;650619]yeah i heard this too. so how come microsoft will get its money back from something which is free to make and keep your account??[/quote]

^ I guess by selling ads and publicity spaces, in addition to selling services. For example, you can't send messages to members in a group that exceeds 1000 members, you will have to pay once to do that once it exceeds that number of members....stuff like that.

Re: Facebook

^^ And selling off your details/preferences etc.

Re: Facebook

No MS didn't buy Facebook, this is old news from 2-3 months back. They might've cut a deal ah fuck it, I googled:

[QUOTE]After losing many battles to Web behemoth Google ([URL="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=GOOG"]GOOG[/URL]), Microsoft ([URL="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=MSFT"]MSFT[/URL]) finally won one. On Oct. 24, the software giant prevailed in its bid for a stake in the social network [URL="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=20765463"]Facebook[/URL]. Microsoft agreed to buy a $240 million piece of the company in a transaction that values Facebook at $15 billion.

For Microsoft, the deal underscores the rising importance of online advertising. The arrangement gives Microsoft control over the placement of banner ads on Facebook outside the U.S., where about 60% of Facebook's 49 million active users reside. Microsoft had already reached agreements to sell U.S. banner ads for Facebook through 2011. "It signals an enormous vote of confidence from our largest advertising partner," Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms & Services Div. at Microsoft, said during a conference call announcing the investment.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2007/tc20071024_654439.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story[/url]

It's actually last year's news :lol:

MS just wants a stake in anything big and online, desperately. It's playing catchup, first with Netscape, now with Google. Ever since the internet, MS has been outmanouvered so badly and keep losing out on online opportunities.

But this deal doesn't really give MS anything, serving banner ads on Facebook is not going to give them the kinda returns that justify the money they paid out. Sad truth is, no one has worked out how to make money off social networks or relationships; that's why Yahoo is in trouble.

Re: Facebook

[quote=DIDI;650791]^^ And selling off your details/preferences etc.[/quote]

^ Even more than that: Yesterday I was reading an article on a local newspaper that facebook is filled with spying activities to the point the Israeli gov has recently issued new laws for their soldiers forbidding them from posting any personal details whatsoever or pics for fear of kidnapping or infiltration: A soldier was even condemned to 60 days in jail because he has posted on facebook a pic of the military base he is attached to.

Re: Facebook

[quote=Shiva;650795]facebook is filled with spying activities to the point the Israeli gov has recently issued new laws for their soldiers forbidding them from posting any personal details whatsoever or pics for fear of kidnapping or infiltration: A soldier was even condemned to 60 days in jail because he has posted on facebook a pic of the military base he is attached to.[/quote]

It's hardly 'spying' when people are freely uploading pics and their entire personal life onto Facebook :lol:

The problem is people not differentiating between their professional and their personal lives, and things like Facebook which is the proably the no.1 time-waster in the corporate world, means the professional spill over into the personal or vice versa.

And the military dude deserved to be punished for posting said pic on Facebook, that's not something you go around posting. And why does he have a camera snapping pics in a military base to begin with? :roll:

Re: Facebook

As opposed to the Israeli government's move, the Syrian gov has totally banned facebook for the same (spying) reasons...

Re: Facebook

its getting old now anyway.

theres non where near as much activity as before!

Re: Facebook

[ms] is where it's at 8)

Re: Facebook

i'm up for ms book!

Re: Facebook

[quote=arielus;650742][SIZE=6]stop poking me! [/SIZE]:lol:[/quote]

I won't surrender :p :lol:

Re: Facebook

[quote=Shiva;650813]I won't surrender :p :lol:[/quote]

if you ever come to Argentina, you'll suffer the consequences :p

i'm gonna try to get you booked just for that! :lol:

Re: Facebook

^^^ so you can poke Shiva? :shock:

Re: Facebook

[quote=Steve Graham;650950]^^^ so you can poke Shiva? :shock:[/quote] just 4-5 times a day

:lol:

Re: Facebook

not quite a poke but... [url]http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26320023138[/url]

Re: Facebook

[quote=Steve Graham;650950]^^^ so you can poke Shiva? :shock:[/quote]

You should see what my profile view looks like...lol, I usually get a list of about 30-40 ppl every day poking me, so what I do is poke back the whole list....the poke war :lol:

Re: Facebook

how to get the old facebook back: [URL]http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35102803125[/URL]

Re: Facebook

i just joined a couple of weeks back, its nice.

Re: Facebook

[quote=arielus;601613]Join this group

[URL]http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13938353654[/URL]

Mercuryserver members from all around the world :p

current members: me :lol:[/quote]

I joined your group!!:p

Re: Facebook

it's not mine, it's ours :p

Re: Facebook

^ was reading an article on a French newspaper: "Mi6 is OFFICIALLY recruiting through facebook..." lol

Re: Facebook

They are going to end up with some very strange spies :lol:

Re: Facebook

[quote=Shiva;651066]how to get the old facebook back: [URL]http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35102803125[/URL][/quote]

whats so wrong about the new facebook? see people complaining all day about it...looks like ppl really dont like change! It takes a lil' while to get used to it but its not that bad... give it a try.

Re: Facebook

myspace rulez