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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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Behold, Lamebook captured it all so well in one post

"And I'm a real-life Supervillian... I troll around the Starbucks with my laptop running the Firesheep add-on to jack people's facebook sessions and post lewd links to their status!

Well then you suck as a super-villain, because you are actually performing a public service, and get no monetary reward for your efforts.

Lamebook is quite obviously a parody site, something that is protected by the First Amendment. Facebook (which has already tried to claim trademark on all ----book sites [slashdot.org]) has already threatened to go after Lamebook. If they do so, it will be tried in whatever Facebook-friendly court district that Facebook wants.

In order to help protect themselves, Lamebook is suing them preemptively to declare that they have the right to their parody site and avoid being put in a position where Facebook simply outspends them in litigation.

I doubt that they were worried about this going to court, even in a Facebook-friendly court that's one-thousand miles away from them.

The crux of their panic here was that the Facebook lawyer threatened the nuclear option, to "shut down their personal Facebook account if they didn't comply" (and that, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to do anything about, it's Facebook's right to shut down any personal Facebook page they desire, just like it was Rupert Murdoch's right to shut down any MySpace account that criticized him).

At least, by tackling the trademark issue head-on, and asking a preemptive verdict on that part at least, it will look that much worse if Facebook ever decides to shut down their personal account after that.

http://failbook.failblog.org/
http://www.lamebook.com/

Those are two somewhat humorous ones that collect fully/embarrassing FB posts.

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.

Fair enough, but Microsoft already has a social network with a p. large installed user system (MSN and Hotmail). They would just need to tweak it and add functionality (the same thing Google is doing by adding Wave to Gmail). That is where the big difference is; whereas Google codes stuff that works, and generally works better than what came before (or adds something of value at the very least), Microsoft rarely does.

As far as Facebook goes, I think that ultimately they are just poorly positioned to become a "paradigm of the internets", if you will. It is just too easy to add Facebook-like functionality to Google's already rather impressive set of tools. Plus, anyone expounding on the virtues of social networks should visit this sometimes.