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Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products
An anonymous reader writes "Following the announcement about its major privacy revamp this week, Facebook has announced it is killing two of its products. The company has axed Facebook Places, although it is still adding new location features at the same time. In addition, the social network has has axed Facebook Deals, although Check-in Deals will still be available."
You mean Facebook isn't actually entering the terrorism and drug fields?
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
What, is Slashdot gonna print every press release from these people on the front page? I mean really, who gives a fuck about facebook, except the damn teeny boppers? What can't you people do a writeup on Redhat 5.2 running on a Mac Performa, or something?
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
For all the complaints about Facebook posts on Slashdot, I really find it useful that someone is keeping tabs on the site that I have open every time the browser is open, posting the most recent scandals, news, and peer-reviews of the newly released features.I don't subscribe to Facebook's update blog and most of the The only reason I ever knew about Beacon back in the day was because of Slashdot's coverage of the story. The legal issues surrounding the ownership of Facebook have been interesting to track constantly, because Slashdot often has the daily posts of relevant updates to the cases without having to Google it to find out what's changed in the legal cases. New privacy features (or their loss) are extremely important to know about, and I've valued having it brought to the public eye so quickly by having it posted to the main page of Slashdot.
(And by the way for anyone willing to respond, what became of Beacon? Did it transmute into their current information harvesting, or was it abandoned?)
So, basically they are copying Google+ already...
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your politician, and hitting them?"
If anything this whole post was just for the sake of making a misleading headline that vilifies facebook while the reality being harmless and, frankly, pointless.
Got your clicks though, didn't it?
You do realise Facebook (and all social network sites) actually makes it EASIER to communicate with people over the internet? If I want to contact someone, I don't have to track down their email or their address or even their phone number- I can just log on to Facebook, search their name and send them a message in two clicks. But look, I shouldn't have to explain to you how Facebook can be a beneficial service. If you're too retarded to understand it yourself then you should probably be the one jumping off a bridge.