Comments on: Facebook Needs An Email Service http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/ The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News and More! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:28:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Verna Pruett http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-11812 Verna Pruett Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:32:59 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-11812 They need an email so that people can get the help they need. I have to reset my password everytime I want to get in facebook. It's frustrating. They need an email so that people can get the help they need. I have to reset my password everytime I want to get in facebook. It’s frustrating.

]]> By: Verna Pruett http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12957 Verna Pruett Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:32:59 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12957 They need an email so that people can get the help they need. I have to reset my password everytime I want to get in facebook. It's frustrating. They need an email so that people can get the help they need. I have to reset my password everytime I want to get in facebook. It’s frustrating.

]]> By: rebecca http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8182 rebecca Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:48:22 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8182 Hi folks, I agree on the e-mail thing - i don't think i'd stop using my other one at least not immediately but I'd really appreciate to have a more sophisticated tool to administer my messages... Off topic: Does anyone here know where to get current Facebook usage demographics. I know Comscore published some in May 2007 - anything more recent? Thanks, Rebecca Hi folks,
I agree on the e-mail thing - i don’t think i’d stop using my other one at least not immediately but I’d really appreciate to have a more sophisticated tool to administer my messages…

Off topic: Does anyone here know where to get current Facebook usage demographics. I know Comscore published some in May 2007 - anything more recent?
Thanks,
Rebecca

]]> By: rebecca http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12956 rebecca Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:48:22 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12956 Hi folks, <br>I agree on the e-mail thing - i don't think i'd stop using my other one at least not immediately but I'd really appreciate to have a more sophisticated tool to administer my messages...<br><br>Off topic: Does anyone here know where to get current Facebook usage demographics. I know Comscore published some in May 2007 - anything more recent?<br>Thanks, <br>Rebecca Hi folks,
I agree on the e-mail thing - i don’t think i’d stop using my other one at least not immediately but I’d really appreciate to have a more sophisticated tool to administer my messages…

Off topic: Does anyone here know where to get current Facebook usage demographics. I know Comscore published some in May 2007 - anything more recent?
Thanks,
Rebecca

]]> By: Adam Loving http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8181 Adam Loving Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:17:41 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8181 Yes, they should add email. Doing this would turn FB from a social network into a real *portal*. I think there was a web mail FB app, but witout API access to the existing private message features it is kind of pointless. Yes, they should add email. Doing this would turn FB from a social network into a real *portal*. I think there was a web mail FB app, but witout API access to the existing private message features it is kind of pointless.

]]> By: Adam Loving http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12955 Adam Loving Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:17:41 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12955 Yes, they should add email. Doing this would turn FB from a social network into a real *portal*. I think there was a web mail FB app, but witout API access to the existing private message features it is kind of pointless. Yes, they should add email. Doing this would turn FB from a social network into a real *portal*. I think there was a web mail FB app, but witout API access to the existing private message features it is kind of pointless.

]]> By: Jonathan Kleiman http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8179 Jonathan Kleiman Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8179 I wrote an article once.. sort of a view from the future. It ended up being too whimsical to publish (it was for a campus paper).. but it was about data storage and what happened in the 50 years after all private data became public. Basically most marriages ended and political leaders were unelectable :) I wrote an article once.. sort of a view from the future. It ended up being too whimsical to publish (it was for a campus paper).. but it was about data storage and what happened in the 50 years after all private data became public.

Basically most marriages ended and political leaders were unelectable :)

]]> By: Jonathan Kleiman http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12954 Jonathan Kleiman Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12954 I wrote an article once.. sort of a view from the future. It ended up being too whimsical to publish (it was for a campus paper).. but it was about data storage and what happened in the 50 years after all private data became public.<br><br>Basically most marriages ended and political leaders were unelectable :) I wrote an article once.. sort of a view from the future. It ended up being too whimsical to publish (it was for a campus paper).. but it was about data storage and what happened in the 50 years after all private data became public.

Basically most marriages ended and political leaders were unelectable :)

]]> By: Devil's Advocate http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8172 Devil's Advocate Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:41:22 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-8172 I find it very disturbing that anyone, knowing the issues that have been raised over Facebook in the last while, would still want to use the site as a "central point" for their communications. Facebook is in the process of being broken as a social networking tool. Every wheel of The Great Marketing Machine is scrambling to find a way to "cash in" on Facebook's large database of users, and Facebook is welcoming all of this ($$$) without any regard to the consequences to those users or itself. As with all marketing endeavors, the site will soak up a large infusion of cash as it quickly becomes polluted, a chunk of users will dump the site in frustration, and then marketers will dump the campaign, leaving the site injured. Everything that evolved on Facebook did so virally. That's the nature of the site. That's how it was born, that's how it grew, and that could very well be the way it will eventually die. Tracking ads have already been introduced that users have no control over, nor has consent ever been discussed with the users regarding the tracking. And, Beacon is still installed. Sure, users were given a "switch" that is supposed to disallow their profile's participation in Beacon, but what assurance is being offered that is being honoured? (The tracking ads are still inserted throughout every Facebook page.) The following may surprise some people: Facebook has been giving 3rd party sites DIRECT ACCESS to your computers, and has admitted to this. (How do you think the tracking ads and cookies are put there in the first place?) None of this 3rd party access is under Facebook's control. 3rd parties load what they want to your pages, and track what they want (with or without Beacon). Also by Facebook's own admission, many of the applications are also untrustworthy. Naturally, most of them weren't put there "just for the fun of it". (Is that what you thought??!) Yet, people would still use a Facebook e-mail service?? These people need to shut off their computers and go out for some air!... 'Cause they can't be thinking straight. I find it very disturbing that anyone, knowing the issues that have been raised over Facebook in the last while, would still want to use the site as a “central point” for their communications.

Facebook is in the process of being broken as a social networking tool.

Every wheel of The Great Marketing Machine is scrambling to find a way to “cash in” on Facebook’s large database of users, and Facebook is welcoming all of this ($$$) without any regard to the consequences to those users or itself.

As with all marketing endeavors, the site will soak up a large infusion of cash as it quickly becomes polluted, a chunk of users will dump the site in frustration, and then marketers will dump the campaign, leaving the site injured.

Everything that evolved on Facebook did so virally. That’s the nature of the site. That’s how it was born, that’s how it grew, and that could very well be the way it will eventually die.

Tracking ads have already been introduced that users have no control over, nor has consent ever been discussed with the users regarding the tracking.

And, Beacon is still installed.
Sure, users were given a “switch” that is supposed to disallow their profile’s participation in Beacon, but what assurance is being offered that is being honoured? (The tracking ads are still inserted throughout every Facebook page.)

The following may surprise some people:
Facebook has been giving 3rd party sites DIRECT ACCESS to your computers, and has admitted to this. (How do you think the tracking ads and cookies are put there in the first place?) None of this 3rd party access is under Facebook’s control. 3rd parties load what they want to your pages, and track what they want (with or without Beacon).

Also by Facebook’s own admission, many of the applications are also untrustworthy. Naturally, most of them weren’t put there “just for the fun of it”. (Is that what you thought??!)

Yet, people would still use a Facebook e-mail service??
These people need to shut off their computers and go out for some air!… ‘Cause they can’t be thinking straight.

]]> By: Devil's Advocate http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12953 Devil's Advocate Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:41:22 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/facebook-needs-an-email-service/#comment-12953 I find it very disturbing that anyone, knowing the issues that have been raised over Facebook in the last while, would still want to use the site as a "central point" for their communications.<br><br>Facebook is in the process of being broken as a social networking tool.<br><br>Every wheel of The Great Marketing Machine is scrambling to find a way to "cash in" on Facebook's large database of users, and Facebook is welcoming all of this ($$$) without any regard to the consequences to those users or itself.<br><br>As with all marketing endeavors, the site will soak up a large infusion of cash as it quickly becomes polluted, a chunk of users will dump the site in frustration, and then marketers will dump the campaign, leaving the site injured.<br><br>Everything that evolved on Facebook did so virally. That's the nature of the site. That's how it was born, that's how it grew, and that could very well be the way it will eventually die.<br><br>Tracking ads have already been introduced that users have no control over, nor has consent ever been discussed with the users regarding the tracking.<br><br>And, Beacon is still installed.<br>Sure, users were given a "switch" that is supposed to disallow their profile's participation in Beacon, but what assurance is being offered that is being honoured? (The tracking ads are still inserted throughout every Facebook page.)<br><br>The following may surprise some people:<br>Facebook has been giving 3rd party sites DIRECT ACCESS to your computers, and has admitted to this. (How do you think the tracking ads and cookies are put there in the first place?) None of this 3rd party access is under Facebook's control. 3rd parties load what they want to your pages, and track what they want (with or without Beacon).<br><br>Also by Facebook's own admission, many of the applications are also untrustworthy. Naturally, most of them weren't put there "just for the fun of it". (Is that what you thought??!)<br><br>Yet, people would still use a Facebook e-mail service??<br>These people need to shut off their computers and go out for some air!... 'Cause they can't be thinking straight. I find it very disturbing that anyone, knowing the issues that have been raised over Facebook in the last while, would still want to use the site as a “central point” for their communications.

Facebook is in the process of being broken as a social networking tool.

Every wheel of The Great Marketing Machine is scrambling to find a way to “cash in” on Facebook’s large database of users, and Facebook is welcoming all of this ($$$) without any regard to the consequences to those users or itself.

As with all marketing endeavors, the site will soak up a large infusion of cash as it quickly becomes polluted, a chunk of users will dump the site in frustration, and then marketers will dump the campaign, leaving the site injured.

Everything that evolved on Facebook did so virally. That’s the nature of the site. That’s how it was born, that’s how it grew, and that could very well be the way it will eventually die.

Tracking ads have already been introduced that users have no control over, nor has consent ever been discussed with the users regarding the tracking.

And, Beacon is still installed.
Sure, users were given a “switch” that is supposed to disallow their profile’s participation in Beacon, but what assurance is being offered that is being honoured? (The tracking ads are still inserted throughout every Facebook page.)

The following may surprise some people:
Facebook has been giving 3rd party sites DIRECT ACCESS to your computers, and has admitted to this. (How do you think the tracking ads and cookies are put there in the first place?) None of this 3rd party access is under Facebook’s control. 3rd parties load what they want to your pages, and track what they want (with or without Beacon).

Also by Facebook’s own admission, many of the applications are also untrustworthy. Naturally, most of them weren’t put there “just for the fun of it”. (Is that what you thought??!)

Yet, people would still use a Facebook e-mail service??
These people need to shut off their computers and go out for some air!… ‘Cause they can’t be thinking straight.

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