Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook

dkd903 writes "A kind of war has been going on recently between Facebook and Google over a contact export issue. First, Google blocked Facebook access to the Gmail contacts API. To this, Facebook responded back with a new method to get Gmail contacts of a user (the download contacts option). And now Google has slapped back again at Facebook and asks users indirectly to file a data protectionism complaint against Facebook. When a Facebook user clicks on the Download Your Contacts button on the 'Facebook import contact via Gmail' page, the user is then redirected to a new page on Google's server, which looks something like this..." Can I just say that watching this is absolutely hysterical?

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To each his own

[iluvcapra]

Can I just say that watching his is absolutely hysterical?

Can I just say that watching the founder of slashdot attempt to type a typo- and misspelling-free sentence is absolutely hysterical?

Unnecessary

[The Yuckinator]

I don't need Google to tell me to not like Facebook.

Re:Unnecessary

[AnonymousClown]

I don't need Google to tell me to not like Facebook.

Let me see Should I hate Facebook

The answer looks like a "Yes."

I Did What They Told Me To!

[eldavojohn]

yeah zuckerberg. suck it up. you rode on the web culture getting to where you are. you cannot just go protectionist on us and become a control freak. share data, as others share data with you.

Google told me to complain to Facebook so I did. Then all my friends asked me why I was posting images of child porn on my Facebook wall. So I went back to Google and complained about that and now a Google van slowly circles my house twenty four hours everyday. I went on Google maps to look at my house but there's just an image of a smoldering crater and a Jolly Roger. I logged back on to Facebook and Zuckerberg had killed my farmer and was raping my livestock as the fields burned.

I'm scared. I don't think I'll get in the middle of this kinda stuff next time. You can have all my data locked up, I just want my Farmville to be okay! Why, piggy, why!? I loveded you, I loveded you piggy!

Re:Why are we getting pulled into this turf war?

[Anonymous Coward]

> The data on my Facebook site is mine.

That's where you have a misunderstanding.

Re:Suck it up Zuck.

[guyminuslife]

It's a popular position to take. I was part of the "Popular Things Suck" Facebook group until too many people joined it; now it sucks.

Re:Why are we getting pulled into this turf war?

[Anonymous Coward]

> The data on my Facebook site is mined

There ya go.

Re:Suck it up Zuck.

[Ol Olsoc]

Facebook does not suck because it is popular. Facebook sucks because it sucks.