Thread: Facebook

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Stuff like 'g'night FB friends' on someones status is one of my pet hates and says a lot about the idiot who is clearly on the bloody site all day..

Sounds like little JJ when he cranked up his good night thread here.

Its like, who gives a fok little jj. ???????

Originally Posted by FailSafe

(and of the ones I do have, one is a cat- I will say for a feline he's a surprisingly prolific poster, though).

are the posts anything like this ?

Noodles is in the UK - I wonder if this will cause him to tone down his antics

in the earlier days of IRC , online tormenting was a lot worse than the mediocrity that spins people out now - house of insults channel used to be carnage

Facebook ordered to unmask online 'trolls'

IN a landmark ruling, a London court has ordered Facebook to reveal the identities of internet "trolls" who abused and tormented a British mother after she wrote a message in support of a reality TV contestant.



Nicola Brookes' ordeal began last November when she learned that an ousted singer on the UK version of The X Factor had received hateful comments on the social networking website


In a bid to cheer up the besieged contestant, Frankie Cocozza, Brookes wrote on Facebook, "Keep your chin up, Frankie, they'll move on to someone else soon".
Within 24 hours, Brookes was flooded with hundreds of abusive messages.
Her attackers also set up a fake Facebook profile in her name, and published her home address in Brighton, Sussex, 87km south of London.

The 45-year-old, who suffers from Crohn's Disease, said she reported the matter to local police but they did nothing.
Brookes took the matter to the High Court in London which ruled that Facebook had four weeks to release the internet protocol (IP) addresses and other personal information of the accused trolls.
"These people are breaking the law so it is fantastic that we should now be able to find out who they are," Brookes said. "Hopefully these people are now scared in the same way that I was scared when they were harassing me."
A Facebook spokesman said there was "no place for harassment" on the social networking website, adding that the company, which is based in California, would comply with the order.
Once the information is released, Brookes will take legal action against her abusers, The Independent reported.
"I'm going for the strongest possible prosecution against these people," she said. "I want them exposed. They exposed me and they invaded my life. I didn't ask for it. They wanted a reaction from me and now they have got it."

Originally Posted by baldrick

in the earlier days of IRC , online tormenting was a lot worse

good times, I used to troll Win95 IRC channel as a fervor Apple fan and WinNuke their IP

And the truth is out....

users,.........

top 120: Facebook Statistics by City

^
And Big Brother is all over them...

now you do not have to worry about your friends naming you on facebook photos as it will be done automatically and for any other photos that may be in the vicinity

Facebook Inc. (FB), owner of the world’s largest social-networking website, acquired Face.com, adding technology that enables facial recognition in photos.

Terms weren’t disclosed. Face.com helps users tag photos and find images online by distinguishing facial features on social networks and photo-sharing sites. Menlo Park, California- based Facebook already uses some of Face.com’s applications. The startup announced the purchase today in a blog posting.

“People who use Facebook enjoy sharing photos and memories with their friends, and Face.com’s technology has helped to provide the best photo experience,” said Ashley Zandy, a Facebook spokeswoman, in an e-mailed statement. “This transaction simply brings a world-class team and a longtime technology vendor in house.”

Facebook Buys Face.com, Adds Facial-Recognition Software - Bloomberg

Originally Posted by baldrick

Noodles is in the UK - I wonder if this will cause him to tone down his antics.

Wondered where Noodles had disappeared to. Scampy with him by any chance ?

I still hate facebook

Facebook seems to be a directionless organisation... it's spent.

Like Google, creeping people out with their data collection and the way they abuse people's data without consent, it's surely only a matter of time before some new regulation is brought in that really fucks with their business model.

goldman sachs would have made out like bandits , but now the decline is beginning

Nearly 2 MILLION US Facebook users quit social network


Shares in Facebook continued to slide on Tuesday, after an analyst claimed the dominant social network had seen a modest drop in its userbase.

Capstone Investment's Rory Maher said Mark Zuckerberg's company suffered a 1.1 per cent fall in US users over the last six months. The number of European Facebookers had also declined, he added.

Meanwhile, Facebook's stock hit a month-long low yesterday finishing the day at $28.09 on Nasdaq, after falling some 8 per cent at the start of the week.

Maher's methodology was based on proprietary software his outfit had used to track how many people were accessing Facebook over the past two quarters in more than 200 countries on 500 user pages.

He also spotted that Facebook had hit a wall in terms of trying to build its userbase in the 23 countries where the network had already surpassed 50 per cent of the population.

Only nine of those countries actually exceeded the 50 per cent userbase in the last three months. But the remaining 14 countries either saw minor changes (UK growth was flat, for example) or had fewer signups to Facebook.

The company claims to have around 900 million people worldwide using Facebook. And it has previously said in regulatory filings that it needed to penetrate other markets, such as China, to help generate growth in its userbase.

It has also noted the plateau effect of user growth in its more mature markets.

Either way, Wall Street clearly took umbrage with Facebook yesterday, and as noted by Forbes the company's Q2 earnings report due on 26 July may well be making some investors rather twitchy.

The Register asked Facebook to comment on this story, but it hadn't got back to us by the time of publication

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07...s_stock_tanks/

this might help their shareprice

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...86I1ER20120719

Facebook, Wal-Mart chiefs meet to "deepen" relationship



Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is about to add the biggest retail players to his list of friends.
Zuckerberg and his senior management team will spend two days at Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Bentonville, Arkansas home office this week, meeting with executives of the world's largest retailer and discussing ways to "deepen" their relationship.
The Facebook team will meet with Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke and his lieutenants on Friday, in the first such meeting between the two corporations' senior management teams. Zuckerberg and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will then speak to hundreds of Wal-Mart employees on Saturday at the retailer's monthly meeting.
Representatives at both companies declined to discuss the specific agenda for Friday's meeting other than noting that the summit is intended to bolster the relationship between the world's No. 1 social network and the world's largest retailer.
The meeting comes two months after Facebook's initial public offering, which was marred by technical glitches on the Nasdaq exchange as well as by concerns about the company's long-term money-making prospects.
Facebook, which reports its second-quarter earnings on July 26, makes most of its money from advertising sales. Many investors and analysts believe the company could tap into a new source of revenue by playing a bigger role in online retail sales, perhaps taking a cut of transactions generated on its social network.
In a statement, Facebook said it was looking forward to working to "deepen" its relationship with Wal-Mart, and noted that Facebook can learn from the retailer's "experience and management team about building a strong, durable and valuable company for the long term."
Wal-Mart's Facebook page has more than 17 million fans and the company also pays to advertise on Facebook. Expanding its reach online is key for Wal-Mart as shoppers increasingly shop on their computers, tablets and smartphones.
The retail behemoth, which rang up $443.85 billion in total sales last year, is well behind Amazon.com Inc in online sales. Amazon had sales of $48.08 billion last year.
As shoppers get recommendations from friends on sites such as Facebook, Wal-Mart and other retailers have been working on bolstering their presence in social media.
"We appreciate and value the ongoing strategic partnership we have with Facebook," Wal-Mart said in a statement. "Their help and support with testing new and innovative products and technologies to reach our customers has been invaluable."
Efforts to combine shopping with social networking have had mixed results. Big retailers including J.C. Penney, Gap and Nordstrom had previously set up stores on Facebook but shut them after generating few sales. Now a new generation of e-commerce startups, such as Fab.com, Oodle and Copious, are tapping into social networks such as Facebook and Pinterest to sell goods.
Facebook's Sandberg has traveled to Wal-Mart before, but this will be the first time that Zuckerberg and his entire management team, including finance chief David Ebersman, will decamp en masse to northwest Arkansas to meet their counterparts at Wal-Mart.
In addition to Duke, Wal-Mart executives expected to attend the Friday meeting include Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon, Walmart International CEO Doug McMillon, Sam's Club CEO Rosalind Brewer, and other members of Duke's leadership team.
The companies share a common bond in James Breyer, a partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners who was one of Facebook's earliest backers and sits on the boards of both Facebook and Wal-Mart. Breyer is not expected to be at the meeting.
Interestingly, new Yahoo Inc CEO Marissa Mayer was elected to Wal-Mart's board in early June, while she was still with Google Inc. Earlier this month, Facebook and Yahoo settled a patent dispute and announced plans to form a "strategic alliance" involving advertising and distribution.
Wal-Mart's Saturday morning meeting is led by the CEO, and the heads of the retail units give updates on the business. The meeting also usually includes events such as a chance to honor long-time employees and a visit from a guest.
Celebrities at past Saturday morning meetings include actors such as Harrison Ford, Emilio Estevez and "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson; singers including Sheryl Crow and Jewel; Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, TV chef Paula Deen and football player Peyton Manning.
The Saturday morning meetings were a weekly tradition started by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, and are now held monthly. While the 7:30 a.m. start time is typical for Wal-Mart events, outside guests may balk at such an early start.

the rats are leaping

when facebook folds , all those photos people have snapped and instantly uploaded to their narcissism portal will likely fade rather quickly

that no less than three key execs have quit Facebook over the last few days. The company's director of platform partnerships, Ethan Beard, platform marketing director, Katie Mitic, and mobile platform marketing manager, Jonathan Matus, all handed in their resignations to Zuck.
Facebook shares closed down 4 per cent on Wall Street on Wednesday to $20.9 - which, fact fans, means that the network's value has been nearly halved since its Nasdaq debut in May with its $104bn price tag, or $38 a share IPO.

I'm trying to close my facebook page down.

It's impossible, the option bit has disappeared.

Refugee from Facebook questions the social media life - The Washington Post

Refugee from Facebook questions the social media life

MARFA, Tex. — Not long after Katherine Losse left her Silicon Valley career and moved to this West Texas town for its artsy vibe and crisp desert air, she decided to make friends the old-fashioned way, in person. So she went to her Facebook page and, with a series of keystrokes, shut it off.
The move carried extra import because Losse had been the social network’s 51st employee and rose to become founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal ghostwriter. But Losse gradually soured on the revolution in human relations she witnessed from within.


The explosion of social media, she believed, left hundreds of millions of users with connections that were more plentiful but also narrower and less satisfying, with intimacy losing out to efficiency. It was time, Losse thought, for people to renegotiate their relationships with technology.


“It’s okay to feel weird about this because I feel weird about this, and I was in the center of it,” said Losse, 36, who has long, dark hair and sky-blue eyes. “We all know there is an anxiety, there’s an unease, there’s a worry that our lives are changing.”


Her response was to quit her job — something made easier by the vested stock she cashed in — and to embrace the ancient toil of writing something in her own words, at book length, about her experiences and the philosophical questions they inspired.


That brought her to Marfa, a town of 2,000 people in an area so remote that astronomers long have come here for its famously dark night sky, beyond the light pollution that’s a byproduct of modern life.


Losse’s mission was oddly parallel. She wanted to live, at least for a time, as far as practical from the world’s relentless digital glow.


Losse was a graduate student in English at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 when Facebook began its spread, first at Harvard, then other elite schools and beyond. It provided a digital commons, a way of sharing personal lives that to her felt safer than the rest of the Internet.


The mix has proved powerful. More than 900 million people have joined; if they were citizens of a single country, Facebook Nation would be the world’s third largest.


Despite a messy initial stock offering in May that left investors feeling bruised, Facebook has become one of the most potent and pervasive technology companies in the world, with a massive potential revenue stream from targeting ads to its users. (Donald E. Graham, chairman and chief executive of The Washington Post Co., is a Facebook board member.)


As it has grown, Facebook has increasingly drawn scrutiny from American and European regulators while provoking debate over the consequences of digital socializing — especially when it’s happening on platform built by a profit-seeking company.


At first, Losse was among those smitten. In 2005, after moving to Northern California in search of work, she responded to a query on the Facebook home page seeking résumés. Losse soon became one of the company’s first customer-service reps, replying to questions from users and helping to police abuses.


She was firmly on the wrong side of the Silicon Valley divide, which prizes the (mostly male) engineers over those, like Losse, with liberal arts degrees. Yet she had the sense of being on the ground floor of something exciting that might also yield a life-altering financial jackpot.


In her first days, she was given a master password that she said allowed her to see any information users typed into their Facebook pages. She could go into pages to fix technical problems and police content. Losse recounted sparring with a user who created a succession of pages devoted to anti-gay messages and imagery. In one exchange, she noticed the man’s password, “Ilovejason,” and was startled by the painful irony.


Another time, Losse cringed when she learned that a team of Facebook engineers was developing what they called “dark profiles” — pages for people who had not signed up for the service but who had been identified in posts by Facebook users. The dark profiles were not to be visible to ordinary users, Losse said, but if the person eventually signed up, Facebook would activate those latent links to other users.


Losse’s unease sharpened when a celebrated Facebook engineer was developing the capacity for users to upload video to their pages. He started videotaping friends, including Losse, almost compulsively. On one road trip together, the engineer made a video of her napping in a car and uploaded it remotely to an internal Facebook page. Comments noting her siesta soon began appearing — only moments after it happened.


“The day before, I could just be in a car being in a car. Now my being in a car is a performance that is visible to everyone,” Losse said, exasperation creeping into her voice. “It’s almost like there is no middle of nowhere anymore.”


Losse began comparing Facebook to the iconic 1976 Eagles song “Hotel California,” with its haunting coda, “You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.” She put a copy of the record jacket on prominent display in a house she and several other employees shared not far from the headquarters (then in Palo Alto., Calif.; it’s now in Menlo Park).


As Facebook grew, Losse’s career blossomed. She helped introduce Facebook to new countries, pushing for quick, clean translations into new languages. Later, she moved to the heart of the company as Zuckerberg’s ghostwriter, mimicking his upbeat yet efficient style of communicating in blog posts he issued.


But her concerns continue to grow. When Zuckerberg, apparently sensing this, said to Losse, “I don’t know if I trust you,” she decided she needed to either be entirely committed to Facebook or leave. She soon sold some of her vested stock. She won’t say how much; they provided enough of a financial boon for her to go a couple of years without a salary, though not enough to stop working altogether, as some former colleagues have.

Facebergs shares are now 50% below its IPO highs.

Facebook 'Barely Legal' As 18 Penetrated | ZeroHedge

did anyone on TD buy Facebook shares ?

Facebook was able to raise about 10 BILLION DOLLARS in this IPO. The CFO’s job is not to manage shareholder portfolios. His job is to help Facebook succeed. I don’t know about you, but putting 10 BILLION DOLLARS in the bank in my opinion is one way to help them succeed.

Mark Cuban Gets Facebook; Most Others Don't - Forbes

Seems most of the buyers were there for the potential price jump that IPOs sometimes give and not Facebook. Times are tough and there are probably a lot of day traders out there who haven't made too much in the past few years.

Originally Posted by Freewheelin2012

Seems most of the buyers were there for the potential price jump that IPOs sometimes give and not Facebook. Times are tough and there are probably a lot of day traders out there who haven't made too much in the past few years.

Anyone who bought it deserved the ass kicking they are getting. Who the fuck would be dumb enough to trust one of these big banks that are underwriting this garbage ?

I wouldn't have bought facebook IPO shares with butterflies money

facebook is a Pentagon op, they needed the money for the war in Iraq

for all you facebook cia droids - your mission has been expanded

just remember , I am the real baldrick , and no I will not stand up

Now Facebook wants YOU to grass-up friends not using their real name

Freedom to go under a pseudonym is, miraculously, one freedom to survive the security lock-down of the previous decade. Now Facebook wants to change this.

Facebook has, from multiple independent reports, started asking friends to snitch on friends not using their real names on Facebook:

Now I know when it comes to privacy storms we're all getting a little jaded.


In a world where anything and everything is reported to threaten our privacy there comes a point when we are forced to don blinkers and carry on regardless, hoping it will all turn out right in the wash.


There are now so many privacy worries that we'd end up living a pretty futile existence if we tried to avoid each and every threat

Facebook is desperate to squeeze every ounce of juice out the "value proposition" of holding a rich data set on all our lives.


But with big data comes big responsibility; and pseudonymous users are still valuable to Facebook.


They still see and click on Facebook ads.


They still leave digital footprints that Facebook can track to work out whether they prefer chicken or beef, drive a Ford or Ferrari, read James Patterson or James Joyce; so Facebook is still able to [attempt to] select the most relevant adverts for them.


In fact I can only think of two things Facebook can't do easily for pseudonymous users: (1) link to their credit score; and (2) prevent "review fraud", where users create multiple accounts to unfairly influence product reviews.


Of these, (1) causes me concern anyway. It puts an immense amount of power into the hands of a small number of credit scoring companies.


Imagine being prevented from using a Facebook app or receiving a discount voucher because your credit rating is not high enough. We shouldn't encourage discrimination based on the output of a rough algorithm designed to assess our ability to manage debt.


And for (2), yes it's useful to have a system to prevent online vote rigging. But banning pseudonyms isn't the only method. It isn't even a fool-proof method.

Now Facebook wants YOU to grass-up friends not using their real name - Digital Policy