Talk:Criticism of Facebook
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[edit] Cleanup of Student Athletes section
The section on student athletes seems to be slightly biased and opinionated, it could also seem to do with a general clean-up and to be made concise. It has the style of someone knowledgeable on the subject but unfamiliar with Wikipedia style? Would anyone agree, and have the knowledge to alter this? Cjeam (talk) 20:26, 28 April 2008 (UTC) This was addressed, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Owikibama (talk • contribs) 03:04, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism of the Board Member for his Politics
What is the point of this section.? Every company has 10 to 12 board members with various political positions. Why choose this one director of one company to comment on them? This is not a neutral POV comment. It assumes some normative left-wing belief that includes the idea that neo-cons are so evil that they must be shunned.
The company itself is not active in politics, doesn't promote a particular political agenda, etc. Even the fellow in question isn't listed as top contributor to PACs.
This should be deleted, in my opinion.
Even though I added this bit - I actually agree with you. The section should be re-titled and centre instead on the agressive business actions of Thiel (eg against moveon.org), and his tax-dodging ways, which I am sure most people would be critical of. I would like to rewrite the section rather than have it deletd though. Templetongore (talk) 15:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Also is it even accurate. This section refers to Thiel as a neoconservative yet he endorsed Ron Paul for President. Ron Paul is a libertarian/paleoconservative and the two groups do not get along. Either way this section is ridiculous and should be deleted. If Templetongore wants to comment on Thiel's 'tax dodging ways' (and good on him), then it should be done on thiel's own page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.129.63.97 (talk) 10:39, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Copywrite Violation
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[edit] Copyright Violation
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[edit] Sociological
What about the sociological criticism of Facebook ? I can't write it since I'm not a native english speaker, but I'm afraid this highly relevant critism is not even mentioned here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.65.0.178 (talk) 11:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I was very surprised to not see any mention at all about the feature to "Find Your Friends on Facebook" that other social networking sites also seem to have. This feature gives potential new users the possibility to provide their username and password to their email account so Facebook can tell if their contacts have accounts on Facebook. This is something that is very bad practice since it teaches the users to give away their passwords which should never be done. Even if Facebook does not miss use this information it teaches people to fall for Phishing which is one of the hardest security issues to do anything about. Shouldn't this be mentioned as well on this page? /Niklas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.228.39.220 (talk) 06:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Removed "Lack of Political Choice Section" as original research
This section had no citations and seemed likely to be a sort of in-universe complaint that some users have about facebook. If any independant sources can be produced confirming the concern of this lack of choice, then it can/should be re-added. Until, please don't add back.Gwynand (talk) 14:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Please note
I removed all of the student athlete sections because it kept mentioning High-School athletes, when the articles mention College, and they had all caps headings. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 01:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
- Had to change my password, sorry about that. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 02:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Merge with Facebook controversy
I propose to merge the article with Facebook controversy due to the significant overlap. --Edcolins (talk) 15:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
- Merge Sure. Gary King (talk) 20:14, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
- Merge "significant overlap" thats an understatement. (Hypnosadist) 02:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] IDF and Facebook
This story about a Isreali squady getting 19 days in prison for misusing face book. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7364091.stm hope that helps. (Hypnosadist) 07:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Group names cannot be changed
An interesting quirk is that you cannot change the name of a group once it is established. Thus, some groups exist with hundreds of members that have a typo in the name, but no one wants to go through the trouble of remedying the situation by taking the group secret, starting a new one, and getting all those members to join. The rationale is, "Sorry, but once the group is created the name can't be changed. No one wants to wake up one morning and notice that their "Chuck Norris Rules" group has been changed to the "Tony Danza Fan Club."[1] However, in practice, you can email them and they will correct obvious typos. Chin Chill-A Eat Mor Rodents (talk) 01:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Lawsuit from CIPPC
I added this ongoing just filed suit: The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, per Director Phillipa Lawson, filed a 35-page complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner against Facebook on May 31, 2008, based on 22 breaches of the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Pipeda). Facebook's Chris Kelly contradicted the claims, saying that: "We've reviewed the complaint and found it has serious factual errors — most notably its neglect of the fact that almost all Facebook data is willingly shared by users."ap.google.com, Canada launches privacy probe into Facebook 4 University of Ottawa law students initiated the "minefield of privacy invasion" suit which was investigated by Canadian Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, who will submit the report and recommendations within a year. She will utilize negotiation to resolve privacy disputes, but can ask for court injunctions.news.bbc.co.uk, Facebook 'violates privacy laws'--Florentino floro (talk) 08:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
