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04-19-2010, 10:51 AM
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I have taken to referring to Facebook as the Facebook Empire. Anyway, This is an article from March of this year. http://www.businessinsider.com/faceb...k-pages-2010-3
so basically, it is their INTENTION to take over the Internet? Quite ridiculous. I mean I guess when everyone looks at it for the most part, this is a good thing because most people love Facebook. But really, should this much domination over the internet be a good thing? I don't think so. So I hereby call forth those of us who refuse to have facebook, we shall start a revolution!
In reality, if the entire Internet operates around facebook, what becomes of those of us who don't want it?
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04-19-2010, 10:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: kansas city, mo | | | I'm not trying to be dumb, but a) do you think they're using hyperbole when saying "take over the internet". also b) don't you think they've taken over a huge chunk of it? How many regular internet users don't have facebooks, even if they don't check them every day?
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04-19-2010, 10:57 AM
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04-19-2010, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre I'm not trying to be dumb, but a) do you think they're using hyperbole when saying "take over the internet". also b) don't you think they've taken over a huge chunk of it? How many regular internet users don't have facebooks, even if they don't check them every day? | a) yes.
b) yes. But it seems ridiculous how facebook seems to want to be everything on the internet. They've already got a huge mass of users, why expand to the REST of the Internet?
But I'll admit my hate for facebook is quite irrational.
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04-19-2010, 11:07 AM
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04-19-2010, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by rarisgod a) yes.
b) yes. But it seems ridiculous how facebook seems to want to be everything on the internet. They've already got a huge mass of users, why expand to the REST of the Internet?
But I'll admit my hate for facebook is quite irrational. | You probably don't like Web 2.0. That's what Facebook is the epitome of.
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04-19-2010, 11:14 AM
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04-19-2010, 11:16 AM
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04-19-2010, 11:25 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Groan. Facebook couldn't "take over the internet" even with unlimited money. Has Microsoft taken over the internet? Obviously not. Do they want to? Yes, and they've wanted that for many years. Could they afford it? Gates is one of the richest men on the planet. Anyone who thinks facebook is any more insidious than a fart in the breeze just needs to look at all the drying corpses and feeble has-beens that used to be "the next big thing" on the internet. Even Ebay has begun to fail. |
04-19-2010, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by bongomania Groan. Facebook couldn't "take over the internet" even with unlimited money. Has Microsoft taken over the internet? Obviously not. Do they want to? Yes, and they've wanted that for many years. Could they afford it? Gates is one of the richest men on the planet. Anyone who thinks facebook is any more insidious than a fart in the breeze just needs to look at all the drying corpses and feeble has-beens that used to be "the next big thing" on the internet. Even Ebay has begun to fail. | Exactly. Fads are Fads. Who would have thought that myspace was going to be a ghost town (except for bands) like it is now 5 years ago?
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04-19-2010, 11:34 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | OK, I just read the article linked in the OP's post, and I have to say: OP, learn to read. Facebook is creating an opt-in system for using fbook features on non-fbook sites, and a Paypal-like billing system. Hardly the mark of the Beast, and not even worth shrugging about, much less fearing. |
04-19-2010, 11:41 AM
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I'm just glad I recently joined FB; now, even though I hate it, I'm on the winning side. 
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04-19-2010, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by bassteban I'm just glad I recently joined FB; now, even though I hate it, I'm on the winning side. | tinfoil hat and all.
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04-19-2010, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by standupright is it red font day? | Red font day for me everyday! TEEEE HEEEE!!!!!!! |
04-19-2010, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre tinfoil hat and all. | Laugh while you can- & I've upgraded to aluminum.
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04-19-2010, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre Exactly. Fads are Fads. Who would have thought that myspace was going to be a ghost town (except for bands) like it is now 5 years ago? | Fair enough, though facebook has seemed to become bigger than myspace. Quote:
Originally Posted by bongomania OK, I just read the article linked in the OP's post, and I have to say: OP, learn to read. Facebook is creating an opt-in system for using fbook features on non-fbook sites, and a Paypal-like billing system. Hardly the mark of the Beast, and not even worth shrugging about, much less fearing. | again, fair enough.
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04-19-2010, 12:02 PM
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04-19-2010, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by rarisgod a) yes.
b) yes. But it seems ridiculous how facebook seems to want to be everything on the internet. They've already got a huge mass of users, why expand to the REST of the Internet? | 
It's not like it's rocket science. |
04-19-2010, 01:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Many web sites do this already. You know when you click on a thumbnail on a Google Image results page, and part of it stays there if you keep browsing?
Yeah, they're planning to do that. Big deal.
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04-19-2010, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre I'm not trying to be dumb, but a) do you think they're using hyperbole when saying "take over the internet". also b) don't you think they've taken over a huge chunk of it? How many regular internet users don't have facebooks, even if they don't check them every day? | I dont have a facebook and I can still use the internet just
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