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I get my daily giggles from "Lamebook" http://www.lamebook.com/ and Failbook http://www.failbook.com/

There actually are sites called http://failbook.com/ and http://lamebook.com/ that highlight "the worst of Facebook". Many hours of mirth and entertainment while you laugh at your fellow humans.

I finally got an invite yesterday from a friend. It still needs a bit of tweaking but hands down the best social website since Facebook was nice and clean back in the day. The fact that it's rising this fast should make some people over at Facebook a bit worried. I'm going to finally start transitioning.

Back in the day Facebook was only .edu and thus didn't have the lowest common denominator on it. We used to make fun of people on MySpace for "ThEiR HoRiBLZ Grammer" and such. But if you start reading LameBook or Failbook this group of people is now over on Facebook. And as long as Google+ remains invite only, I can't see them ever getting over to Google+.

CSB:
Facebook royally screwed me when they did the automated bans of numerous apps. My app. User 1 (me).. Was caught up in it.

When my grandma died I was tasked with scanning in family photos. I needed a faster way to upload them so I wrote my app. I had thousands, if not tens of thousands of photos uploaded, sorted, tagged. Most of my large family isn't the most technological, and facebook was much easier than Gallery. Plus they could tag each other, comment on the photos "Oh this is when Dad took us to that beach and set the house on fire" etc. When the auto ban bot came through it was all gone. My appeal reply was boiler plated. "Sorry our bot says you're doing spamming." Unlike some people, I do still have all the photos. (It looks like there were numerous photo uploading apps that got caught up in the ban.)

Thankfully with my app it only took about 24 hours of my bandwidth to reupload them, but all of the additional value added metadata that was lost. (I am not retagging them). Any photo less than 2048x2048 doesn't count towards your 1GB Picasa (Google+ Photos?) quota. I've already started looking at the PHP Google API. I'm hoping to have all my photos up there soon. Anyone that wants to see any new photos I take, will follow me to Google+.
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Already done

Definitely not too late.

My Parents are now on facebook. As are all of their friends, which is great for them and reconnecting (VS something like classmates.com). However when they let anyone register it turned it into Facebook's own Eternal September. "Likes" and "Groups" are thankfully replacing the stupid forwards that people send out.

I'd say 1/4 of LameBook and FailBook posts are because you friended a parent and they commented on stuff. The groups are nice, but a pain to setup as are controls of who can see what. I want an entire sandbox (without the pain of having to create an entire separate account).

You bet your ass I'm going to be looking for the next best thing, as are any college students that would have fit the original Facebook demographic. My facebook page is going to stagnate as I move on just like my MySpace page did when I moved to FaceBook as did my Geocities page when I moved to MySpace.

Reminds me of Christina Maldonado's fail back in May. It would be funny if it weren't so sad and scary.

Facebook used to be cool before they started screwing it up. I don't think it's users are stupid.

I do. The beauty of Facebook is it let's me know just how stupid my racist uncle really is, or how ignorant my young coworker is of the world, or just how insanely right wing nut job some of my friends really are.

Then there's this gem:

http://www.failbook.com/

(at work, it's blocked, so i can't remember if it's .org or .com)

I like the guy who was crowing about how he got lucky only for his mom to press the "like" button.

Is anything interesting (aside from what shows up on Failbook) served up on FB?

Didn't think so.

Not just rent...

Or via failbook...