Gawker 
Enter your username and password.
New York, 6:20 PM
Thu Dec 17
60 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip Your Editors:
Tipline: 646-214-8138
Editor-in-Chief:
Gabriel Snyder |
West Coast Editor:
Richard Rushfield |
Contributing Editors:
Valleywag:
Ryan Tate |
Media:
Hamilton Nolan |
Politics:
Alex Pareene |
Investigations:
John Cook |
Entertainment:
Brian Moylan |
Nights:
Adrian Chen |
Azaria Jagger |
Ravi Somaiya |
Weekends:
Foster Kamer |
Video Editor:
Richard Blakeley |
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
12/16/09
12/16/09
12/16/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
If Facebook is causing you to lose sleep over privacy concerns then stop using Facebook.
The end.
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
If they want to fuck around with their customers then their customers should look elsewhere for a better alternative.
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
I guarantee you that the market will provide an alternative to Facebook if the demand is there (and no... I'm not talking about Myspace).
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
The art of the kvetch.
You don't have to be Jewish.
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/15/09
Now if you'd be so kind as to pass me the orange gag ball I'll get down off of my soap box for the evening.
12/15/09
12/15/09
It is the mere fact that everyone's kindergarten friends and old neighborhood pals are on FB that makes it so appealing. Hell, I'm sure there are tons of awesome ripoff FB-types out there already, but no one gives a fuck because no one's using them.
12/15/09
12/15/09
12/16/09
By the way, maybe I wasn't clear -- the attitude I was referring to wasn't yours, it's Facebook's. There are plenty of other ways they could be making money off of their site, but they're choosing ones that will bring in short term profit, at the expense of customer loyalty. Eventually, when there really is a viable alternative -- and you're right that there will be one at some point -- it's going to bite them in the ass, hard.
12/16/09
12/16/09
And on a related note... I liked my second analogy. I thought it was topical (see Tiger) and edgy. It was sexy too goddammit. That's right. Sexy.
Thank you and good night.
12/16/09
it's really narrow-minded and lazy to construct an argument around "but facebook is really good and all of my friends are on it, so facebook should bend to my will and be the way I like it. i can't possibly imagine that someone would create something that might compete with it...and exploit all the shit that fb is currently getting wrong in terms of social networking..."
sorry. i like fb (most of the time) too. some of the decisions they've made over the last year are beyond retarded. still, it is free and I've slowly unburdened myself of the notion that they actually give a shit about what their "customers" actually like.
so, I guess adjusting your privacy settings or making lists or removing photos or doing less crazy shit in real life that might possibly be captured and put on facebook where your boss or your HR person or whomever you decided to friend might see it is "solving the problem"
for now.
sounds like a great way to spend time.
12/16/09
Good customers (using that term loosely) provide feedback to businesses, and good businesses listen to that feedback (but are not bound to follow it of course). Taking your business elsewhere is a powerful option that we should have, but it ends up hurting both the user as well as the company.
11/06/09
11/06/09
Nobody puts Modo in the corner . . . unless there's a fifth of scotch in it. #media
11/06/09
One assumes that she got her invite because like a lot of Americans, Ms Liasson has been the White House staffers' commuter buddy for years #media
11/07/09
11/06/09
10/16/09
Meanwhile, I hear the "news" networks interrupted coverage of Obama's Louisiana trip for this. (Remember Obama? Remember NOLA?)
Hmmm, maybe more people in this country would understand the real news if we presented it like a "reality" show. News about the economy could be slipped into a show called American Idle. Then you could have Survivor: American Healthcare. Or C-Span's I'm a Senator - Get Me Out of Here ... #4chan
10/17/09
10/16/09
Is he related to the guy who runs AdPay.com? If so, are they in cahoots?
Was this just a test to study how information about events flow through the networks?
Or is it part of a larger campaign to demoralize the country by messing violently with its trust?
Bonus: How is this whole episode related to Harold Pinter's play, The Birthday Party? #4chan
10/19/09
12/05/09
Hmmm.. and check this out now:
[balloon.mit.edu]
(btw, are you at Jerusalem U?)
12/07/09
This article was ten years too late:[www.nytimes.com]
(nope, why do you ask?)
12/08/09
How many balloons were there??
That doesn't sound right at all.
As a wee lad in the hinterlands of the great white north, I had an idea to put messages in bottles with a friend and then throw them in the river. Messages read something like: "If you find this please call the number below. We want to find out how far these bottles get."
So like a year later, someone did call. Hundreds and hundreds of miles away. But now I'm wondering what happened to all the other bottles and yes, there is guilt!
Wondered about your name because Jerusalem U sits on Mount Scopus. So hill/mountain, and a couple of transposed letters...
10/16/09
10/16/09
10/17/09
... GEEEENEEE!
#4chan
10/17/09
10/16/09
10/16/09
10/16/09