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Facebook Offers Easy Commenting Alternative

Posted by timothy on from the disqus-among-yourselves dept.

Spice Consumer writes "Facebook has just unveiled a 'new system (that) lets website owners replace their current commenting system with Facebook's simply by dropping in a few lines of JavaScript.' How widely adopted this new system becomes could greatly affect Facebook's already entrenched position on the web and further compromise individual users' privacy."

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  1. I have seen this several times already by peragrin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and all it does is prevent me from posting comments.

    Something to do with me not having a facebook account but my voice is being stifled because I am not an attention whore.

    --
    i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
    1. Re:I have seen this several times already by houghi · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I am not on it. I even have the following in my hostfile:
      127.127.127.127 www.facebook.com
      127.127.127.127 facebook.com
      127.127.127.127 static.ak.fbcdn.net
      127.127.127.127 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
      127.127.127.127 login.facebook.com
      127.127.127.127 www.login.facebook.com
      127.127.127.127 fbcdn.net
      127.127.127.127 www.fbcdn.net
      127.127.127.127 fbcdn.com
      127.127.127.127 www.fbcdn.com
      127.127.127.127 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
      127.127.127.127 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com

      Also I have found lost friends without facebook and they have found me because we were really interested in finding each other.

      All these old friends were nice to talk to, but it was nothing more then:" How are you doing? What are you up to now?" Other old friends never went out of sight for a reason.

      My privacy is much more worth then old friends or even lost family.

      --
      Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
    2. Re:I have seen this several times already by jemmyw · · Score: 3, Funny

      Since i use facebook i found lost relatives, family, old friends.
      Facebook helped me a lot.

      This sounds like an advert. Facebook employee?

    3. Re:I have seen this several times already by jkmartin · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Even if Facebook doesn't sell it, they keep everything you ever do. Case in point:

      Eight months ago I was looking for an (actual) friend on Facebook. He did not have an account. Two months ago the friend signed up for Facebook. I immediately began receiving notifications that I should add this person as a friend. He hadn't contacted me. I hadn't contacted him. We don't have any interests or friends in common and we live in different states. Our only connection was that 6 month old search I did.

      And that doesn't even touch the fact that since the Facebook commenting system isn't threaded it loses all value. Wow, you mean I can look through 20 pages of inane bullshit with occasional @friendsname references? Sign me up!

      We've reached Peak Facebook. Everyone that wants an account has 1 (I canceled mine). Yes, there is growth in areas that don't already have easy internet access; but those markets offer smaller growth and revenue streams. Every new feature adds equal parts functionality and creepiness (though trending toward creepy). Facebook has become the de facto internet white pages, but I can hardly see why this would lead to a valuation of $65 billion. I really haven't even figured out how Facebook makes money (other than taking a cut on the sale of imaginary farm tractors).

      I could be wrong. The paranoia of Zuckerberg seems equivalent to Gates so Facebook may stay on top longer than Geocities, Friendster, Myspace, or the half dozen other social networking sites that proceeded it. We should know in 5 years.

  2. What percent of the world is on the web? by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Keep in mind that 90% of the world IS NOT on Facebook.

    Your 90 percent figure might mislead if one doesn't stop to consider what percent of the world is on the web to begin with. We have three groups: A. those with Facebook, B. those with web and e-mail but not Facebook, and C. those without web and e-mail. Switching your comment system from OpenID to Facebook login affects only group B, and I imagine C is far bigger than A and B put together. (But I'm in B, you insensitive clod!)

    1. Re:What percent of the world is on the web? by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Interesting
      It's much less than 10% of the world who are on facebook. Throw in all the people with multiple accounts, the accounts that haven't been used in months, the accounts created to be rented out as fans at five for a penny, and the people who generate oodles of accounts so they can get more points in their games, and it's doubtful that the number of unique facebook users is more than 1% or 2% of the world.

      And we can divide THOSE into 3 groups - people bored out of their skulls looking to waste some time, people so insecure that facebook is their ego booster, and social marketing types who want you to believe that a facebook presence isn't fools gold.

  3. This is too much power by blind+biker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am quite upset at all those sites using Facebook's login. Using Facebook for commenting is just another step in the wrong direction of giving Facebook powers over large swaths of the Internet.

    And we're not talking of a benevolent, honest company here, either. This is a company that will try any and all unethical tricks in it's toolbox, and back just half a step back after a huge storm of dicontent. Then they'll try again. This is Fuckerberg's domain, you don't want them in control of anything outside of Facebook.

    --
    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  4. Arrogance of Disqus. by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative

    As I wrote to the Atlantic after being blocked for not having a Disqus account, "Why does the Atlantic presume to require me to enter into a contractual relationship with a third party to communicate with your editors?"

    The Disqus terms allow them to spam you and to send your information to advertisers.: "We use Personal Information ... to provide you with information and offers from us or third parties that we believe you may find useful or interesting, including newsletters "

    The U.S. Government negotiated better terms from Disqus. The Goverment made them take out the bad stuff. If your site wants to use Disqus, demand to use the Federal terms, not the standard terms.

  5. Off topic, but... by zill · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google can't index a person's wall.

    For hilarity, imagine how utterly confusing this sentence is for someone from the year 1998.

  6. Re:Majority DON'T have Facebook Accounts by hjf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Facebook will get replaced by the next "new thing" before too long.

    Why?

    I mean Google has been around for 13 years, with no signs of being replaced by a "new thing" anytime soon.
    Facebook is a different beast. It's the first time I see a "global scale" social network. No one gave a fuck about MySpace outside the US, but facebook is all over the place.