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Facebook Empire Aims to Take Over the Internet?

rarbass

rarbass

Jul 3, 2008
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#1
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/face...-over-the-internet-with-facebook-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?
 
#4
blendermassacre said:
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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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.
 
#9
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.
 
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bongomania said:
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.
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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?
 
#11
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.
 
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blendermassacre said:
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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Fair enough, though facebook has seemed to become bigger than myspace.
bongomania said:
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.
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again, fair enough.
*hides in shame*
 
#18
rarisgod said:
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?
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It's not like it's rocket science.
 
#19
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.
 
#20
blendermassacre said:
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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I dont have a facebook and I can still use the internet just

*user disconnected*
 

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