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Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets
Cyrus writes "According to a Bloomberg scoop, a New York man claiming to own a majority of Facebook has gotten a signed court order to block Facebook from transferring assets."
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given the "issues" Z-man has, one may wonder how many of these skeletons are in his closet? A bent sapling never grows straight.
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So I am guessing you were also a CS major?
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Regardless of whether or not the guy wins some money in the lawsuit, nothing will change. Zuckerberg might be slightly less rich. But he will still be rich, and an asshole. Facebook will still suck.
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yes, there is no bigger pile of crap then a social media site that has made it easy for me to get in touch with family and friends, stay up to date in their lives.
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I like that pile of crap. It allowed me to relocate and connect with old high school and college classmates. I also learned about the reunion through facebook
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
No matter how big an jerk you may think Zuckerberg is, and no matter how bad you may think Facebook is, it is practically always possible to get worse.
Not knowing anything that I didn't learn in the last 5 minutes, upon seeing this article, this Ceglia guy certainly has a running start on both. The enemy of your enemy may not be your friend - just a different enemy.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
I have family on different continents and never saw the need of using Facebook to connect with them or stay in touch. Email/phone/IM is way better. As for friends/family around me, I usually get together with them quite a few times each year, again, phone/email/IM is there too. I don't see the need for Facebook to connect with people I care about. For people I don't care about, even when they added me on Facebook I simply put them in a limited user profile group and they didn't see jack. I guess I am too anti-social to understand why people use Facebook, I did use it a bit though, but realized that the stuff I wanted to communicate with them, I already did with IMs, emails or simple phone calls, or better in person. The way I see it, if I really care about a person, I will make sure to stay in touch and no need to re-connect.
A personal IM, email or phone call IMO is way better to communicate with friends/family than posting some crap on Facebook your friends can see, it's more personal, private and puts emphasis on that person to tell this person: you are important to me. Facebook removes this facet of personal communication.
stay up to date in their lives.
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The order baring transfer of assets was only good until July 9th, it is now July 13th. So what happened?
No offense, but 10 years ago, everything you wrote was being said about instant messaging, and before that, about email. [Citation needed], but I wouldn't be surprised if the same applied to telephones. So while I actually agree that Facebook is pretty grating and annoying, the arguments above are just the new "Get off my lawn".
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I guess a lot of people who want this to happen (I am one of them) does so because of Zuckerberg rather than Facebook. Humans are naturally drawn towards justice and fairness, and see Zuckerberg as a person who denigrates his customers, abuses their privacy and takes advantage of their personal data - and always, ALWAYS pushes the boundaries of what Facebook is allowe3d to do and only retreats after a big community backlash. And so, people feel Zuckerberg does not deserve the fortune he has.
Facebook could, otherwise, be a useful and safe tool, in the hands of an ethical leadership.
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Maybe you shouldn't use Facebook then, and let the millions of other people who actually do enjoy using it, use it.
More annoying to me (and more relevant to Slashdot) are sites that support Facebook Connect, but not OpenID.
I was kidding. But one can only hope something shuts down that huge pile of crap.
Says the person with a twitter signature?
Why? Most people websites cater to will have a Facebook account, and if your users have Facebook accounts, sites can push their content to the FB users' friends. OpenID is great, but apart from being a mechanism to authenticate yourself, they are completely different.
I predict a novel legal theory being invented that will protect the big corporation from a seemingly straightforward contract.
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So block the app. It's not that hard. My friends all play those inane games, and I never see a peep of them. Only when a new one comes along do I see it, and that's very, very rare. 10 minutes of work too much for you to keep in touch with your family?
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So basically you are saying since you don't think Facebook is the most effective way to communicate, nobody else should either.
"But this one goes to 11!"
M.U.L.E. 0WNZ all your crappy newfangled web games and always will.
since the beginning of time.
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I love how they mention how it's 2 pages, as if that made it worthless or something. As if you needed more proof of how detached from reality legal-ese has become.
I predict that thefacebook and facebook will be found to be separable entities, and that ceglia gets 84% of thefacebook.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
In this case the Slashdot conventional wisdom appears to be "Nobody needs Facebook." But, as is so often pointed out here, Slashdotters are not a representative cross-section of personallity types. Reference the frequent comments about women/dating/sex. Facebook addresses social interaction that is mostly incomprehensible to this group. On the other hand, if it weren't for the kinds of people who hang out here there would be no Facebook. Let's not fall into the "what is right for us is right for everyone" hole.
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