Zuck on it, Google: 'Public' Facebook events are dead to you
Facebook is squirrelling away search results about its users' public events that could once be easily found through Google, The Register has learned. The move appears to have followed the unveiling of the social network's Graph Search, a beta version of which has been deployed to its one-billion-strong active userbase. Naturally …
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Facebook is the new AOL -- a popular site which attempts to build a "walled garden," their own private internet. I hope in time people will realize how corrosive Facebook is and will leave it for more open pastures.
Facebook is the new AOL
To be fair to Facebook, at least I don't have a metric crap-tonne of Facebook CDs kicking around, plus dropping out of every magazine I ever touch. I could have built a house out of all the AOL discs that passed through my hands.
Re: Facebook is the new AOL
"To be fair to Facebook, at least I don't have a metric crap-tonne of Facebook CDs kicking around, plus dropping out of every magazine I ever touch. "
Somehow, I 'spect that if CDs were still a viable transport, you'd have enough new FB christmas ornaments to decorate a forest...
FB evil
I use FB mainly as a business tool of sorts (which is why I am posting AC) - but I am not easy about it at all. I reckon it's time to spend less time there, just popping in now and again.
This FB ideal of cutting people off from the web is insidious.
Pipl.com anyone?
Next maybe the Zuckerplebs can stop sites like Pipl.com from mining FB profiles..
... and stop Google caching PRIVATE profile PHOTOS! Its easy to see how data on FB is leaking like a sieve. Create a unique profile name then wait a while perhaps a few months and then :-
A. Search the unique FB profile on Pipl.com...
B. Search the unique FB profile name using images.google.com
If using google or yahoo remember to use quotes around the unique profile name and prefix a minus symbol to filter out the wrong close search suggestions…
Back in the day there was a standard mantra that went something like "there is no such thing as a free lunch"; indeed it became a cliche, an acronym (TANSTAAFL), and in recent times seems to have faded away.
Its great that so much on t'internet is free at point of use, but its worth reminding yourself occasionally that that does not mean you're not paying for it.
If you are going to quote, then get it right.
"there is no such thing as a free lunch"
(TANSTAAFL) There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
Popularised by Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966
Why would anyone want to seach anything on Facebook?
Puzzled.
Re: Why would anyone want to seach anything on Facebook?
if you are a cretinous marketing scumbag, your whole entire job probably consists of typing strings into Facebook search like a monkey on amphetamines all day. It helps if you're the kind of pleb who watches X factor un-ironically. It probably also helps if you wear 3 inches of fake tan so that nobody can see what a visibly horrible person you are.
Re: Why would anyone want to seach anything on Facebook?
I've watched x-factor un-ironically. That is to say, I watched it for all of 2 minutes, thought 'This is utterly, utterly bollocks', and switched over.
Re: Why would anyone want to seach anything on Facebook?
I watched it for all of 2 minutes
You have my deepest respect for the depth of your scientific commitment. I never made it past 30 seconds.
Re: Why would anyone want to seach anything on Facebook?
Don't worry about it. These are people who make it to the first ad break and then intentionally wait for the second half of the show to begin.
nothing new
Didn't TBL write a hit piece about data silos years ago. I think he implicated Facebook as the major culprit.
Twas ever thus.
WTF?
'It's also simple to find married people who "liked" prostitutes'
Er, seriously? The mind boggles:
First, that prostitutes have Facebook pages (I can see the status update - "OMG, got the clap!!!! lololol!!!! Best get yourselves checked out, boys!")
Second, that a married man would be insane enough to "like" one of their pages, given that would be visible to anyone on his friends list (and probably some not on his friends list).
"Prostitutes have Facebook pages?"
I see that you've been living in a cave for the past decade, during which social media became the *primary* means for prostitutes to hook up with their clients. A Columbia University study in 2010 showed that 83% of prostitutes already had Facebook pages, and concluded that "Facebook will be the leading on-line recruitment space [for sex profession workers] by the end of 2011".
Complete Satisfaction
What, you mean no more having to work out if those personal-services ads in the newspaper mean what they look like they mean?
Goodness!
You'll be telling me next that I can look at naked ladies on the internet
Re: Complete Satisfaction (Thad)
You can look at naked ladies on the internet.
Actually...
You can look at anything on the internet, but you can't unsee any of it, and therapy may be required.
Re: "Prostitutes have Facebook pages?"
So, and of course this is purely for ...ahem...research purposes. How would one go about seeking one in their local area... or within 200 miles anyway. Preferably, clean, fully tested and attractive, willing to experiment and very discreet........... Like I said...Just for research purposes... and in case perhaps a friend.. yes that's it... a friend happened to require one. :-)
Re: "Prostitutes have Facebook pages?"
How about simply typing “escort girls” or "call girls" in the Facebook search box? Just make sure you're using your friend's account, mind.
Yawn
El Reg may as well post knitting patterns if they're going to post stuff like this. I don't use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or any other social media and I certainly don't care about what others post on there, whether they want it public or not.
Re: Yawn
I don't use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or any other social media
Ignoring the irony of posting that as a comment (very social web of you...) you might want to consider visiting sites other than El Reg, or at the very least skipping over the posts about social technology issues.
Just a thought.
Re: Yawn
... or even bettter they could link to facebook pages about knitting !!!
https://www.facebook.com/KnittingDaily
(for all the other keen knitters on el reg like myself)
Re: Yawn
I don't use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or any other social media
*Gasp* - you mean, honestly, that you actually have a, hang on, accessing infrequently used synapses.. ah! You have a *life*? Then what, pray, are you doing *here*? :)
Privacy controls work consistently across Facebook.
I think we all knew that - I know I left because of it.
Speaking of .Sinister..... Gotta love the FEATURE :-
'Upload your entire email address book... and we'll help you find all your old friends!
Giving out your email address to anyone anytime has become a whole other liability! Once someone uploads their address book you and they become inextricable linked, at least in Facebook’s eyes, no matter how little correspondence occurred or how many years ago it was!
Its no longer necessary to have friends lists, you can be informally tagged guilty by address book association. The big mail hosters are the worst offenders here, as they automatically add contacts to the address book i.e. Google Gmail.
All it takes is for one idiot to upload their address book for you to find yourself being tagged in all sort of unwanted ways… That and the sheer amount of unsolicited Facebook and Linked-In invitations one receives is a real pain!
Re: Speaking of .Sinister..... Gotta love the FEATURE :-
That's actually a massive whole in the whole Data Protection legislation: a company has to give chapter and verse about what they are going to use YOUR data for, but there is no control over what they can ask your FRIENDS about you. That's why they're all so eager to get your address book - it allows them to legally bypass all that annoying Data Protection stuff.
I also hate the BS that providing your mobile number will increase your privacy - both Facebook and Google have been at this for ages. In reality, it allows them to build a mobile phone database - something we left behind when we went from landlines to mobiles. Personally, I very much like it that way - I noticed that the "do not contact for marketing" flag is very frequently ignored, usually by companies that simple operate from abroad so you cannot go after them without great expense so not having a public number is A-OK as far as I'm concerned.
Plan Zuck! That's where we wake up the dead....
What Facebook is in effect telling its users is that the company needs to build a web within the web in order to encourage everyone to create an account and make Facebook more money as it fends off Google.
Isn't that like Microsoft Network opening the cover of its well-deserved coffin (from inside) to horrible creaking? Bystanders are bound to get a yeast infection.
bbc, etc.
What annoys me is when the beeb, and others, actively promote facebook and twitter by suggesting that you have your say on said services. Are these two the only of their kind? and if not why should only they be promoted in this way? maybe they pay?
Re: bbc, etc.
FB gets constant free PR as its the darling of the media!
Zuck sneezes and even the BBC reports it like its real news!
Something stinks here!
Two teir Internet
There is the Internet, where public is "public".
Then there is the Faceberk network which runs atop the Internet and is only visible to self-confessed Faceberkers.
Personally I think this is a good thing. The less normal people have to put up with the vacuous, self-absorbed Faceberkers the better.
Way round the block?
Are they still letting Google's spider in to catalogue the pages or is it creating results on old cashe?
If its the former, then why not make your browser look, to Facebook, like Google's spider and have a nose round without joining?
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