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Facebook's App Center Begins Appearing in iOS App

saggyhaggis said:
I just dont get it........I think facebook has had its day in the sun and people are becoming increasingly concerned with how their data is being collected and used for advertisements.

Given the size of Zuckerberg's company its laughable that they cant get the most basic features in their app right. Whilst I have been a Facebook user for quite a while I
now only check it every couple of weeks, only to realize I missed nothing.
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What I don't get is how Facebook is often touted as having the "greatest minds and talent of the day." Yet I have not seen anything great created. Often all I see is change for change sake (I still dislike the transparent overlay for viewing photos--I didn't mind how it worked previously).

What exactly are they doing during these "hackathons?" Baking cookies?

Meanwhile I am constantly impressed with what Google has done with their core product: web searching. It's at the point now where I think it's reading my mind as it auto-fills what I am looking for after typing just a few characters. Yet, for the most part, it's not much different than it was a decade ago.

With Facebook if I am trying to figure something out and need to google it I need to limit my search to the last month or it will be painfully out of date.




Michael
 
The main (actually thinking about it, only reason) I use FaceBook is because of the groups on there.

I'm a university student, and there are groups for everything I'm involved with... the school I belong to, the degree program I'm doing, societies I'm part of, my halls of residence... it goes on.

I wish organisations would make and maintain their own websites so I don't have to have FaceBook just to have basic access to information on events and notices!
 
pablo7 said:
Social networks =FAIL
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expect not, unless you're 40 years old ...

events on facebook for example is the only way to keep up with ... well events nowadays, same goes for uni related things like someone else has already mentioned and with friends living far away
 
bushido said:
but they do?

HTC G1, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus are google branded
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They run Android but HTC and Samsung make those phones.

Apple announced they were making a phone and made one--including the OS.

Facebook is rumored to be coming out with a phone. Facebook will never be able to pull off an OS like iOS or Android--let alone a phone to go with it.




Michael

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pablo7 said:
You sir, fail!
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You need better reading skills, sir.
 
Tinmania said:
They run Android but HTC and Samsung make those phones.

Apple announced they were making a phone and made one--including the OS.

Facebook is rumored to be coming out with a phone. Facebook will never be able to pull off an OS like iOS or Android--let alone a phone to go with it.

Michael
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so you are trying to tell me that Facebook would built their own factories to produce those phones? yea right, it'll be a samsung or whatever phone with a facebook os slapped over it

and there are Google specific smartphones, the ones i mentioned run the basic android os without any custom tweaks like samsungs touch wiz. those Google phones also get the android updates first and have a google branded logo on the back and have to meet google's standards to become a "Google" Phone for example a google phone is required to have a curved back

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I hope this doesn't mean I'll get forced to "upgrade" to timeline, if it does I think that's it with FB
 
bushido said:
so you are trying to tell me that Facebook would built their own factories to produce those phones? yea right, it'll be a samsung or whatever phone with a facebook os slapped over it
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Facebook create a reliable OS when they can't even get their basic app right??? Suuuuuure! But don't bank on it. lol

If anything they will--with expensive help--cobble together some kind of POS running an older version of Android to sell to developing markets (as in cheap).




Michael
 
Facebook sucks

And I do not want this company to get ever access to my data.
"Quality" AND "Facebook" is impossible. Should be OR.

Maybe it is time to sell the Apple shares and move on. I wish Jobs was back. They don't need to get a larger customer- and userbase to be successful. Apple has enough money without thirdclass sniffing Facebook.
 
I might consider using this, after Facebook overhauls their entire app.

Most of the time it doesn't even load the correct profile picture in your friends list.
 
Data collector

Shrink said:
I'm not involved in any social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), so perhaps it's not my place to comment.

But it seems to me that if you don't like FB integration, or FB apps, or whatever...don't click on them.
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I am not sure if it is that easy. Like with Twitter, there will surely be account management already integrated into the system preferences. Twitter and Facebook are third-parties, they should not have a built-in place anywhere. If I want to use it, I can download the app for that. But if I don't want to, I do not want to have any traces of that on my device.

As with Facebook, I tried it to see for myself and I hate it. It is very hard to find all those privacy settings, whenever I play a game I give this game (the company behind it) accessright to all my contacts and other information and I have to find those settings to revoke the rights.

I am pretty sure that with deep Facebook integration lots of people will give Facebook access to their private contact list, in case of business use also to their business contacts and maybe even to location data ("for finding friends nearby") without even realizing it.
 
chrimux said:
I am not sure if it is that easy. Like with Twitter, there will surely be account management already integrated into the system preferences. Twitter and Facebook are third-parties, they should not have a built-in place anywhere. If I want to use it, I can download the app for that. But if I don't want to, I do not want to have any traces of that on my device.

As with Facebook, I tried it to see for myself and I hate it. It is very hard to find all those privacy settings, whenever I play a game I give this game (the company behind it) accessright to all my contacts and other information and I have to find those settings to revoke the rights.

I am pretty sure that with deep Facebook integration lots of people will give Facebook access to their private contact list, in case of business use also to their business contacts and maybe even to location data ("for finding friends nearby") without even realizing it.
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Interesting point.

If you are correct, then I don't want it on my computer. I don't want anything to do with social media.

(This is not a judgement on others interest in social media...just one man's choice.:D)
 
Go Away FB

I'm 25. In theory I should love Facebook. All my friends are on it, I have tried it once or twice, but honestly..... I despise it.

I don't use it all, haven't had a profile for about a year and even when I did I never used it. I don't feel as if I am missing out on anything.

Same with Twitter, except at least twitter isn't selling your personal information to advertising companies and then using you as a social billboard. (Honestly, who joins or 'likes' products on FB? You are helping them advertise people)


Myspace died a quick death and my god I hope FB does the same soon. There is far too much advertising in our lives as it is. Seriously, look what Google did to YouTube, it's got more ads then the infomercial TV channels.

I'm with the guy that wants an option in the next iPhone that removes any and all mention of FB from every menu the phone has.
 
chrimux said:
I am not sure if it is that easy. Like with Twitter, there will surely be account management already integrated into the system preferences. Twitter and Facebook are third-parties, they should not have a built-in place anywhere. If I want to use it, I can download the app for that. But if I don't want to, I do not want to have any traces of that on my device.

As with Facebook, I tried it to see for myself and I hate it. It is very hard to find all those privacy settings, whenever I play a game I give this game (the company behind it) accessright to all my contacts and other information and I have to find those settings to revoke the rights.

I am pretty sure that with deep Facebook integration lots of people will give Facebook access to their private contact list, in case of business use also to their business contacts and maybe even to location data ("for finding friends nearby") without even realizing it.
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Facebook makes money by selling you to advertisers. And it is sneaky about it. Set up a FB page with the privacy settings you want, then go back and look at those settings a few months later. Often they have miraculously changed back to the default (ie. Public!). If you ever get an email telling you that FB is changing its privacy agreement, they are really telling you they have reset your settings to default. Becuase at the end of the day, it wants to use your private data.

And do not change over to the timeline feature. Anyone using timeline is public. End of story. Facebook makes google look like saints.
 
LachlanH said:
There is far too much advertising in our lives as it is. Seriously, look what Google did to YouTube, it's got more ads then the infomercial TV channels.

I'm with the guy that wants an option in the next iPhone that removes any and all mention of FB from every menu the phone has.
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Agreed, especially with regards to too much advertising in our lives. It's interesting that some believe Facebook brings us together... online. Yet owning my own business, and having friends working in HR, the younger generation is increasingly becoming less socially adept due to a growing dependency on the internet/text messaging/social networking. We've become physically distant. While it's great that we can keep in touch with friends/family far away, it's definitely negatively impacting society's face to face social interaction and skills. Lord, interviewing twenty-somethings and recent college grad's for work it's alarming. I had more than a few text message during our interviews! Just look around at restaurants and public spaces, teenagers and such sit at tables facebooking and texting without even acknowledging their friends across from them.

I tend to limit my time on MacRumors; it's the only online site I frequent and it's important for work in IT/Communications to keep up with Apple news. However, I don't let it dominate my social life, life is too short. While we can turn off these new social integration features, I wish Apple would focus more on other improvements (especially with OS X and social networking integration in Mac desktops, do not like). I'd prefer third party app's as opposed to more OS integration. :)
 
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