Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
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Re: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
#2Can someone show evidence of this statement?
"Now, say you you write a public update, saying, “My boss had a crazy great idea for a new product!” Now, you might not know it, but there is a Facebook page for “My Crazy Boss” and because your post had all the right words, your post now shows up on that page. Include the words “FBI” or “CIA,” and you show up on the FBI or CIA page."
That is scary.
Re: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
#3Can someone show evidence of this statement? "Now, say you you write a public update, saying, “My boss had a crazy great idea for a new product!” Now, you might not know it, but there is a Facebook page for “My Crazy Boss” and because your post had all the right words, your post now shows up on that page. Include the words “FBI” or “CIA,” and you show up on the FBI or CIA page." That is scary.
Yeah this happens now, pages get a list of relevant status updates down the bottom, sometimes not so relevant. Almost seems like this should be restricted to people who like the page to keep it relevant. Also I wonder if there going to do anything about page fragmentation, they create a page for the exact way you typed something in, even though there is a more relevant page with different word formatting.
Re: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
#4Can someone show evidence of this statement? "Now, say you you write a public update, saying, “My boss had a crazy great idea for a new product!” Now, you might not know it, but there is a Facebook page for “My Crazy Boss” and because your post had all the right words, your post now shows up on that page. Include the words “FBI” or “CIA,” and you show up on the FBI or CIA page." That is scary.
I could write a crawl for these words, if it was a public update.
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#5"It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed."
Before Facebook there was FOAF, which was exactly the same except for that it was open and distributed... And nobody used it. Being closed is the only thing that makes Facebook good.
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#6I love that there's a Facebook Like widget in the right column as you scroll down.
Re: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
#7Might be a fun project to implement the XMPP Microblogging XEP (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html) as a start. XMPP seems to have a lot of the basic features for a distributed social network (buddy list, pubsub, established protocol, etc...)
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#8A guy I know has been working on something of the sort for awhile. I'm sure he'd appreciate some thoughtful input from enlightened beings such as yourselves. =^)
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#10Ugh. Another FB article.
When the revolution comes, the spark that lights the fire won't come from Hacker News.
/me goes off to find a greasemonkey script to drop FB articles.