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Facebook gets facelift

MICHAEL LIEDTKE

Associated Press

Latest comment posted at 7:27 AM EDT 12/04/07

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  1. Duncan McCockenue from Calgary, Canada writes: Its crack I tell you! Crack! Get me off this thing!!! Gaaaaaaaahhh!!

    Its also a good place to stalk your exes... hahaha!!! sigh
  2. Kathryn Montgomery from Toronto, Canada writes: I know that facebook has reached it's peak when I wake up and find its updates posted on the Globe and Mail website. In the inevitable logic of boom and bust, I predict that Mark Zuckerburg needs to sell up - and soon - because I know a lot of angry university students ready to leave the site due to the ever-widening social circles included on facebook. Who wants their parents to add them as friends? (and for that matter, who wants to add their kids and find out about all their drunken college adventures?)

    I give it a year tops.
  3. joel freeman from Toronto, Canada writes: Way to go Kathryn Montgomery! You injected more insight into the article than it's author. Comments like that make these conversations my priority after the first few paragraphs of the actual piece.
  4. Adebisi TheGamer from Canada writes: Facebook, Myspace, YouTube = dotcom days all over again.

    The bubble will eventually burst when the public moves on to the next great thing.
  5. Robyn Hughes from Toronto, Canada writes: Really now, this is news? Though to be fair, it was the topic of conversation this morning with my friends.

    And why did they have to go and introduce this new layout during exam times? Echoing that last comment, Facebook was enough like crack before. Is Zuckerberg trying to get us to fail our classes?!
  6. Abe MacIntosh from New Glasgow, Canada writes:
    Hey, I'm friends with my kids and as far as I can tell they're glad to have me. Some of their friends want to be my friends. I need all the friends i can get. Ahh...but I use an assumed name, cause I don't really want people to find me.
  7. Dan Druff from Ottawa, Canada writes: Crackbook, must find out more....

    I am a sceptic for 99% of things but this (or a site simmilar) will be the new google. I have regained contact with people I havent talked to in over 10 years. This is an extension of the blog only easier to use. btw I am in my 30's and have a good education/job.

    It is addictive and needs to be blocked my work place. "I have no free will !!!!"

    PS: Duncan you are right on the money with the ex-stalker feature. Was that part or the upgrade or is that a future pay service?
  8. Robyn Hughes from Toronto, Canada writes: Huh. Toronto is the largest geography network on all of Facebook with almost 500,000 users. I wonder if the advertisers know about this.

    http://yorku.facebook.com/networks/?nk=67108974
  9. Brian Whitmore from Toronto, Canada writes: Yeah, people from work and older people adding me has become an issue. If you are one of those people, please forgive me putting you on "limited-profile view". It's not that I don't like you, its just that whatever you see on my profile just may incriminate me...
  10. C C from Canada writes: I don't get the whole Facebook is only for university students nonsense. This isn't Logan's Run or something where everyone 21 and over is eliminated from existence!

    If you're worried about your parents, exs (whoever) finding too many details about you... don't add them period or leave them with your limited profile!
  11. Christina M from Etobicoke, Canada writes: I also can't believe that this is the second story in the last few month in the globe about facebook! I talk to my uni friends about the changes, but I think that it really is not that big of a change since the ?newsfeed? was introduced months ago...

    I really liked the previous exclusivity of facebook to uni/college students. there are many other network sites, but facebook was unique. with the regional networks all these people from the past - sadly, people I which to avoid - begin to add me as their friend. I agree that facebook is a great way to reconnect with old friends, but some old friends, I'd rather leave in my past. Yes, I could also reject them, but it's surprising how many people will continue add you after a rejection. Soem people just want to pad their friends list.

    plus, I don't like my parents, or my parents friends, seeing my drunken pictures from uni parties.
  12. Richard Daystrom from Toronto, Canada writes: Whatever happened to going to the pub for a couple of pints with some friends or having a few people over for supper?
  13. A Thompson from Canada writes: I am afraid the days of having people over to talk is disappearing. I also know the world has become a much smaller place and using the net is a great way to keep in touch. Talking to people about facebook, they feel it is a great way to reconnect with people they knew in High School or University. It is the ultimate contact list for those who want to be found. As always, surf safely and good luck to facebook.
  14. S Bern from Toronto, Canada writes: It's sad to see yuppies and the like being hooked on this as if it was the next big thing. It reminds me of msn messenger many years ago, just with a little bit more of accessories. Zuckerman must be really happy, he's a billionare thanks to a crowd who think they are special.
  15. Anti Elvis from Calgary, AB,, Canada writes: S Bern. Hate to inform you, but these social networking sites have existed as long as the commercial internet has been around. Chathouse, Geocities, later came Powwow, then ICQ into MSN into Myspace into Facebook.
  16. C. Corneau from Brandon, Canada writes: It only replaces actual face-time if you let it. I've used this site to make plans in the real world, and also connect with friends I haven't seen in ages (who actually want to have something to do with me, I hasten to add!)
    In other words, technology that actually makes your real life better...what a concept!
  17. mike r from Southern Ontario, Canada writes: Anti-Elvis is right, you can actually track the movement from one chat program to the next. Sort of like tracking from one downloading program to the next, although that now tends to do more with those things being shut down rather than just becoming unpopular, sadly enough. Facebook has been around quite a while longer in the States, relatively new to Canada but the addiction has more certainly been picked up full steam up here! There's always going to be something, but Facebook is one of those that breaks thru to everyone - for instance I was never a fan of My Space but definitely lived on ICQ and then MSN (Messenger). This is a new part of our society, the internet will always be catering to something like this for as long as it remains in existence. Last pt: I don't see YouTube dying off anytime soon, as someone previously mentioned above. I know myself going around sites and YouTube I rarely watch tv at all anymore, unless I download the show or buy the DVD set at the end of the season. And I can say the same for quite a few of my friends as well, this is the way media is moving and once again it's progressing faster than the industry would like, which is why they keep trying to put restrictions and keep things in check so as to not lose too much money as a result. The future is the internet, as cheesy and probably cliche as that sounds, so articles like this are becoming actual newsworthy stories.

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