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How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer)

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-always-winter-and-never-christmas dept.

harrymcc writes "Back in late March, Facebook finally introduced a feature which lets you reply to a specific comment on an update. But at the same time, it started reshuffling the order of comments in an attempt to put the best ones at the top. The change only applies to Pages and to the Profiles of people with more than 10,000 followers, but it's driving me crazy. Over at TIME.com, I explain why."

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  1. Re:You know who else had things ruined? by Stan92057 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They harbor terrorist the terrorist use them as shields. Why doe it happen so much in Pakistan? And why do the people of Pakistan allow it to happen? Its way too easy to blame someone else Pakistan needs to clean house but the Government of Pakistan doesn't seem to care much for its innocent Victims

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  2. Re:An Extremely Decent video on the subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    myspace died because it became popular as a simple social networking platform and then commercial interests took over and killed it

    That can be said for all of the Internet.

    The one true law of the Internet was, is, and should always be, that there are no laws.

    The only reason for laws is that there is limited space and resources which people have to share. But on the Internet, there is unlimited virtual space and everyone can put up his own resources. Don't like it? Fork it! Works for any communication space. Infinitely.

    So on the Internet, humans can go back to the natural form of organization called webs of trust. Without having to ever bash their heads in when they don't want to. The holy grail of a society.

    Then came the businesses and non-digital-natives and they fucked everything up, by trying to force the Internet into their outdated systems, instead of integrating.
    Suddenly we were supposed to have "laws" because they can't handle configuring a firewall or server. Suddenly sites were limited to physical regions. Suddenly you could not call somebody a "cum-guzzling uncle-fucker" anymore because he would be too insecure to just laugh and leave, but would whine and bitch and ... Suddenly services were centralized and comments were censored because some morons sued instead of just *forking*.

    Eternal September was born.

    I say we make a new Internet. With anons and webs of trust! Where the only laws are, that there are no laws, and no non-digital-natives.