Well done faceparty! About time someone "told it like wot it is".

On the other hand, they ARE running a social networking site, so its not as if they could have expected to get 7 million normal human beings using it... Even one or two might be a stretch.

I like the part "so we fucked to the zoo" ;)

Quality, absolute top quality!!!

comedy gold!

if i was a digger i'd digg it.

but ummm, i'm not

anyway, loved it, especially the fact that it was written in chav. :D

Honesty on an Internet site, a rare commodity.

the place will be so much better without all the whiging tossers on there... now if we could only ban them from the rest of the internet too... maybe we should create a web 3.0 where all the complaining little runts can fuck off to til they learn things like "spelling", "grammar", and "basic respect" :P

What about those who had paid for the features on the site. Surely they will be quite upset at losing a paid for service.

"the place will be so much better without all the whiging tossers on there... now if we could only ban them from the rest of the internet too... maybe we should create a web 3.0 where all the complaining little runts can fuck off to til they learn things like "spelling", "grammar", and "basic respect"

That's "whinging".......nob.

.....Chaos in London Zoo as millions of self-named "face partyers" descended on the world renowned zoo upon the urging of FaceParty.com owners Anarchy Towers Ltd. In a post to Face Party the administrators urged users to go to London Zoo and cause chaos. Unfortunately, the mob grew out of control and eventually everyone in the park was rounded up under the Terrorism Act.

Anonymous Coward at London Zoo for BBC news.

They better act like a f***ing business, if they are taking people's personal details.

Maybe if they didn't appeal to 13 year olds, and kick out all the adults aka paedophiles, their business would be doing better.

I was a member (and probably still am) of FaceParty, but haven't logged in for about 2 years. I received an e-mail a while back telling me they were going advert free and how wonderful it was all going to be (positive spin for the fact that the site was dying and no-one wanted to advertise with them anymore).

I wouldn't be surprised if they never come back - it looks and sounds like it's run by a 14 year old who's just thrown their toys out of the pram :D Never mind guys, you tried the whole social network thang and it didn't work for ya - good luck in Burger King.

if I was not over 36 ;-)

Fucking giving it to the masses in plain English. Respect.

Paris - because deep down I don't hate her either....!

Faceparty:

I say fair play to them for kicking the whining complainers into touch.

thanks to faceparty for helping me find the right person.

I've got an app on Facebook. I only expected ~200 users a day, and its grown to 17,000. But dearie me, they whinge and whine for Britain. I've got at least 10 Service Infringement emails waiting for me every morning. No instructions, forced friend invites, slow speed. It doesn't cost them anything. Should have written Vampires instead.

Does El Reg check it's user's against the sex offenders register, or more to the point it's staff?

Could well wipe a high percentage of the user base of the records I suppose.

Mines the one with nonce spray painted on.

There are lots of idiots around who will whinge because they think they deserve everything now and have no patience. Good luck keeping them away. If you have a website like this you'll get that kind of user, and anyone who's been on the internet 5 minutes will know this.

What's amusing is that one 'hater' had the cheek to say a lot of people will be leaving the site because of this. Well, they will one way or another, but what's more important is that I wouldn't be surprised if *any* kind of criticism over the whole thing gets you kicked off the site. Apparently just ignoring them for a few more days was too much for the admins to handle. For the people still left on the site, watch what you say or you might be kicked off in a future temper tantrum.

Faceparty has millions of users and all their personal details, AND it's taking people's money - just a hobby? More like a failed business. Grow up, stop defecating on your users and live in the real world like the rest of us.

For a social networking site with a lot of young members, ie, 14 and under, I think its quite wrong to put a page up like that full of swearing and foul language.

Not quite a good example really...

good on them x 1,000,000

This will be remembered as the downward-turning point of persistent, gossip based, time wasting blogging that is known as social networking. smash the system.

[quote]... and if that isn't enough, some nob has already sued us for not giving then cool tools yet.[/quote]

I'm guessing that this is the reason they couldn't just ignore the users for few more days... they were already being _sued_ before the dead line was reached!

any way, people do tend to forget that they are receiving things for free and do in fact start to think that it is their right to have it.

Bul1sh!t - they used to make millions. This is clearly a temper tantrum because they can no longer compete with the advent of myspace & facebook. To use their own parlance - fuck em!

in the Faceparty coffin. Good. Hope it goes t*ts up for them and they do end up busking on the streets for spare change.

(Whinge time) I was a member. Under 36. Logged on regularly. Had profile picture. PAID for Cool Tools for about 5 years (more fool me).

My account was STILL wiped (with no justification as far as I'm concerned), with about 4 months left on my Cool Tools. OK, it's only 8 quid I lost (hence not bothering to pursue them), but if they're going to kick people like me who stuck to the rules AND was helping to subsidise their site, then I hope the site sinks into oblivion and drags the "old skool" webmasters with it.

That, or I hope Her Maj's Law Enforcement patrols catch up with the people that kicked out all the "suspected paedophiles" so it could have all the 14 year olds to itself - what's the matter chaps, worried about the competition were ya?

Faceparty RIH (Rot In Hell)

Hey George Forth - you are missing the point of faceparty. THEY LIVE TO HAVE FUN - we have one life and things like fp actually make life more interesting. They are not moaning that they have no money, they are moaning about the attitude of people who expect everything for free. I went to Big Gay Out and it was truly amazing -I had one of the most amazing days in my life for just £25 - nevertheless the gay press moaned that it was too expensive!

I empathise with pctechxp: "at last a bunch of admins that say what they think."

I told one of my moaning freebie-website-users to f**k o*f once - and it felt sooo good.

However, a little ironic coming from a group MAKING a persistent, gossip based, time wasting blogging entity known as a social network...

They belong in the zoo.I cannot believe a site aimed at the younger generation would use such appalling language and behave in such an immature why. Its unbelievable. Shame on them

Now you know why doctors, dentists and lawyers don't work for free.

Work done for free is over-valued by the provider and not valued at all by the recipient.

It starts off as a hobby, and becomes an unpaid job.

Anarchy Towers Ltd's best bets are to either:

1. Close the doors and get paying jobs, or

2. Take their work seriously, take their obligations to clients seriously, and find a way to get paid for it.

Acting like jack-asses just makes the IT whole profession look bad.

Paris, because even Paris takes her non-paying clients more seriously than these jerks.

How faceparty complains of whiners and then they pretty much deface their own website with a huge "BAWWWWW".

Very unprofessional, and even if the admins aren't in it for the money, they'reobviously getting something out of the site, as one of this nature isn't easy to manage, I bet they spend a lot of time not in technical admin but keeping their members in check. You have to bear in mind this is very much a hybrid between a social network like myspace and a dating site.

When you start a site that, obivously, begins small, everyone knows what its about. When the site grows into something much bigger and you start adding all sorts to it newcomers, and often the founding members, seem to forget what it is.

Fuck them. As much as most people will be slating them for this, it takes balls to shut a site down that's as big as that.

BTW, I couldn't care for these social networking sites as a whole. I'm speaking generally here.

Very funny and refreshing, but flawed a little.

It sounds like they wanted a "hacking krew" like those people or teams who are named in the info.nfo file on any downloaded stuff that may be on the copyrighted side of things. To me these groups seem like a little club of geeks who call themselves names they think are cool and score street or net cred with skills.

However, that is not what faceparty was, it was registered to an Ltd. It collected both money and personal data from people so it has to be responsible.

They still could have flamed their users and shut down, but they can't pretend they are just amateurs who don't have responsibilities.

And for the record i've been around and i don't think the net was ever run by people like this. Grumpy old *nix sys admins with more than a little sarcasm and cynicism, but not stroppy little twa*ts like these lot.

@Sam: "That's "whinging".......nob."

That's 'knob'. You may think it's 'nob', but that's because you write too many text messages with 'ur' instead of 'you're'.

Flame - because it is. :P

Ya pays ya money; ya takes ya chances.

Oh frellin' well.....

...it's "knob", surely? Tsk, the chavs of today...

I don't know what people are going on about giving them Kudos for writing a tirade filled with foul language. If I was a member of that site I'd be rather worried about my personal details being in the hands of such idiots by this point.

There's nothing down-to-earth or real about writing in such a way. I hate spin and "business-like" talk as much as the next guy, but I still expect some level of professionalism from a site Admin. In the site I admin I swear sometimes as well (ZOMG :O!!), but their rant really does seem to be swearing for the sake of swearing.

The whole thing just reeks of "Look at how down with the kids we are, we cuss every second word like all the other cool kids out there" - Maybe I'm just too old to appreciate it now (I'm 21, I guess their target audience is 14?), but the whole thing just strikes me as pretty pathetic.

Then again, I can't be arsed with social networking anyway.

But we need to keep all the chavs in one place!