Why Facebook is useless

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This is ridiculous, how many apps like Werewolf, Vampires etc. do we need? Or rather, do we need any of them at all? Spam I say!

October 1, 2007 at 9:56am | 13 Comments
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  1. Michael, on October 1, 2007 at 3:19pm, said:

    How often do you check? I don't really get that many facebook app invites.

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  2. Christian Mohn, on October 1, 2007 at 8:52pm, said:

    Well, this is a couple of days. I guess your "friends" are just less prone to send you all this stuff. I wish there was a way to reserve yourself from them completely.

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  3. thumb, on October 1, 2007 at 11:48pm, said:

    Here, here Christian.

    I have yet to join, but just posted a few thoughts on recent social graph chatter.

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  4. Robin, on October 1, 2007 at 11:51pm, said:

    That's nothing, heh:

    http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/09/11/why-i-dont-use-facebook-too-much-anymore/

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  5. h0bbel, on October 2, 2007 at 12:04am, said:

    Thumb: Yeah, already seen your post. :-)

    Robin: Whoa! I didn't see Pauls S. post before I did mine. I wonder how long he "collected" those, but given his fame and likely huge "friend" list I suspect it wasn't long.

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  6. thumb, on October 3, 2007 at 10:35pm, said:

    @Robin

    Holly crap, I have enough trouble managing email and comment spam, I can't understand why anyone would participate in something that adds all of that!

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  7. Jesse Mullan, on October 8, 2007 at 6:16am, said:

    I enjoy facebook because it pulls from my other web presences already (the rss of my blog, my last.fm, my *cough* flickr). Anything that I put onto facebook is throwaway, but in the meantime I'm easy to find there and it gives my classmates and coworkers a recognizable social interface to Jesse.

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  8. Christian Mohn, on October 8, 2007 at 8:39am, said:

    Jesse: Well, I'm not saying it can't be useful. I'm saying theres is way to much app spam and useless crap. :)

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  9. Jesse Mullan, on October 12, 2007 at 11:37pm, said:

    You just have too many friends.

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  10. Christian Mohn, on October 15, 2007 at 12:26am, said:

    Yeah, that must be it.

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  11. mike, on December 28, 2007 at 9:17pm, said:

    Finally someone who agrees with me. I deactivated my FB account because FB became a usless 3rd party tool for 3rd party apps, which resulted in spam. Facebook how many apps can you collect?

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  12. Christian Mohn, on December 28, 2007 at 9:46pm, said:

    Mike: Yes, increasingly so. Facebook is turning into a framework more than a social networking site. While I still have an account there, and use it, it's becoming more evident that the sole purpose of it seems to be advertising and promoting itself like a framework for 3rd parties.

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