"Your favorite bands, businesses, and products are coming to Facebook"

[rhod]

So everybody will end up getting spammed with all sorts of crap - get bored with Facebook & move on to the next hot new social networking "solution".

What I'm waiting for is a networking site where you could register people and companies you HATE (instead of like).

(c) rhod by the way

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Not a massive change but at least it's now off by default:

Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.

More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology.


When Facebook users shopped online, Beacon told friends and businesses what they looked at or bought.


Many considered the data sharing to be an intrusion that exposed them to more scrutiny than was comfortable.


Privacy please
In response to the demands, Facebook's 55 million members will have more control over whether data about what they do online is used for Beacon.
Before the changes, Beacon was an "opt out" system and many complained that they missed the chance to avoid using it when it was introduced in early November.

 

[rhod]

So - another result for the tireless U75 campaign!

And we got there before the Daily Express can claim credit!

 

[salem]

He really does have a smug irritating face and a haircut from Justin Timberlakes' "please punch me" phase in Nsync.

From what I understand there was actually more to it then was mentioned on this thread. It was going to link into other partner sites quite far. It might come up in the minifeeds "Jonn Bob has rented Debbie does Dallas" for example after you used Blockbusters online rental site.

I'm waiting for the new facebook enabled gloves though. "John Bob has just scratched his arse".

I think a lot of people will get hurt by facebook. I was forced to join by a girl I was seeing. However I've "deactivated" my profile now we're no longer seeing each other. I couldn't bare the thought of seeing photos of her and my smug so-called-best friend cuddled up with each other every morning (oh did that come out loud )