The Day Facebook Stole My Page
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The Day Facebook Stole My Page
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#2It's too bad -- Facebook is obviously a good idea that people like, but monetizing it is going to scare away all the users. By the time it becomes the advertising haven that Facebook's investors need it to be, there will be nobody left to click the ads.
Something I liked about the "old days" of the Internet is that the cost to create a community was low enough for one person to support. Hence, it didn't need to sell itself out to corporate interests or even have ads at all.
The problem with Facebook, though, is that people use Facebook because everyone else uses Facebook.
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#3So fan sites - labors of love - have no place in Facebook as a fan page.
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#4Did he not read the email?
We also take down Pages that attack an individual or group or that are set up by an unauthorised individual.
He admits several times that he is unauthorized to set up the page. The page was also handed over to the official fan organization. I see no mystery.
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#5In summary, he violated Facebook's terms of service by creating this page, and is accusing Facebook of "stealing" the page from him now that they've finally decided to enforce those terms.
Facebook requires affirmation that the page creator is "the official representative of this person, business, band or product and have permission to create this Page." He said himself he's just a fan.
I've been as annoyed as anyone with all of the recent privacy issues at Facebook, but it doesn't seem they did anything wrong here. Except maybe write up some Terms of Service that aren't fan-friendly.
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#6You're supposed to make a group instead, but not everyone knows that.
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#7I didn't know that to create a Facebook page you had to be promoting it or advertising something... so do you create a group to show you're a fan of something? The Facebook landscape has become so convoluted.
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#8It's too bad -- Facebook is obviously a good idea that people like, but monetizing it is going to scare away all the users. By the time it becomes the advertising haven that Facebook's investors need it to be, there will be nobody left to click the ads. Something I liked about the "old days" of the Internet is that the cost to create a community was low enough for one person to support. Hence, it didn't need to sell…
I think it's still pretty cheap to create a community, if you're not trying to get every person on earth to join.
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#9Did he not read the email? We also take down Pages that attack an individual or group or that are set up by an unauthorised individual. He admits several times that he is unauthorized to set up the page. The page was also handed over to the official fan organization. I see no mystery.
More curiously, he also admits several times that he had absolutely no interest in the page and probably would have never visited it again. Besides the lack of mystery, I also see a lack of anybody being hurt.
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#10It's too bad -- Facebook is obviously a good idea that people like, but monetizing it is going to scare away all the users. By the time it becomes the advertising haven that Facebook's investors need it to be, there will be nobody left to click the ads. Something I liked about the "old days" of the Internet is that the cost to create a community was low enough for one person to support. Hence, it didn't need to sell…
I think it's still pretty cheap to create a community, if you're not trying to get every person on earth to join.
But the culture of doing so has gone away. No company or school would make their own social networking forum; everyone just uses Facebook or Twitter. Things were not always like that, though.