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    12/02/09

    In reply to Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
    The only significant change I can see is that the lower version isn't showing ads, which makes a huge difference. I can take all the schizophrenia of Facebook design but those scammy ads littered all over my screen really suck the fun out of looking around.
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    Image of Penscribe Penscribe
    12/01/09

    In reply to Facebook Absolutely Demolishing MySpace in the Sex Offender Demographic
    If a sex offender can live on your block, I have no idea how people will lawfully keep them off social media Web sites.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
    Oh, my God! It's going to be in French?! Oh, I knew I should have paid more attention to whatever the hell Mireille et Robert were parlezing about. These new changes are really taxing.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Facebook Absolutely Demolishing MySpace in the Sex Offender Demographic
    Which one is Roman Polanski on? And has Whoopi Goldberg friended him?
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    Image of mimigoliath mimigoliath
    12/01/09

    In reply to Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
    Oh my god, Facebook has the worst case of body dysmorphic disorder EVER.
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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    11/30/09

    In reply to Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
    Where's Spirit Fingers? Spirit! You make a cameo appearance in the "before" grab! Yay, Spirit!
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    Image of jordos1 jordos1
    11/30/09

    In reply to Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
    I'm waiting for the redesign where I don't have to read that some person I've met in 1997 for 3 seconds won 2.7 million dollars killing mobsters, or just adopted some digital pig on their digital farm, 20 times a day.
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    11/30/09

    In reply to Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
    #gawkersattempttoapetwitter

    (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

    I just wish Facebook would stop asking me to reconnect with people I see every god damn day.
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    Edited by contradicto at 11/30/09 6:28 PM contradicto was starred contradicto was unstarred
    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    11/26/09

    In reply to Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
    Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place...
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    In the brick and mortar world, it's often been the state attorney generals or the FTC who first step up about misleading recurring charges scams (see Trilegiant or Joe Francis), but what may have slowed the appropriate actions in this case have been the online community's idea, Facebook should do the policing.

    I mean, whenever someone calls to sell me a recurring charges scam, I don't cry to the phone company.
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    Image of PontiusPirate PontiusPirate
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    I hear Farmville's customer service team has been offshored to Nigeria, where the locals are very adept at running these types of operations.
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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    Cue 10,000 "they were stupid for falling for it!" comments.
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    So, is this going to go into Facebook: The Movie?
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    Here's the thing: even if it takes a certain amount of naivete/stupidity to fall for these scams? It's still the scammers who should be ashamed of themselves, not the people being scammed. The scammer committed an immoral act; the scammed at worst were stupid. It's not even the kind of stupidity that involves greed on the mark's part, like 419 scams; it's just a mistaken belief that people aren't quite as larcenous as the more skeptical of us know them to be.

    The fact that every time something on this topic is posted so many people leap to beat up on the people who were duped and not the people who took advantage of them makes me sad about the general state of people's values. Meanwhile, no one remarks on the stupidity of thieves who leave a blazing electronic trail straight back to the hideout. That, my friends, is seriously dumbass.
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    11/19/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I'd heart you again, if I could. It pisses me off that that's the reaction. Nobody deserves to be the victim of a scam, just like nobody deserves to be the victim of a crime.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/19/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I hugely agree, and that fucking attitude is not limited to e-trolls, either. You get grown men and women who are supposedly solid citizens saying "Well, you know, caveat emptor and all that." Fuck that noise. Caveat vendor. If you're going to con people, you deserve to be fined and publicly humiliated. The fact that you're conning the credulous or the dim makes it worse, not better - you're taking advantage of people who can't defend themselves for your own fiduciary benefit, which is evil by definition.
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    Image of colonelpanic colonelpanic
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    A $5M class action on $200M/yr is a parking ticket, not a cause for concern among investors. If they can sleep at night already, this won' change that.
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment Edited by colonelpanic at 11/19/09 1:20 PM colonelpanic was starred colonelpanic was unstarred
    Image of PontiusPirate PontiusPirate
    11/19/09

    @colonelpanic: Let's see, they've gotten around 54m in funding, their revenues are around 200m, and their profit is where? They have a bloated employee population and spend a crazy amount on marketing. When you're trying to go IPO, a 5-10m hit (maybe around the same time they go IPO) is definitely NOT a parking ticket.
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