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So what’s happening here? Well, Facebook’s “Opt out of emails from Facebook” page is getting indexed by Google.
That means that the email address that Facebook shows you on the page is also indexed. Meaning it is spam-harvester heaven. The hits just keep on coming.
What is longer than the US Constitution and is comprised of over 50 settings and 170 options? Facebook’s privacy settings.
Their deactivation page is emotional blackmail at its most absurd:
It seems to me that the National Lampoon was way ahead of Facebook in this department, as evidenced by this January 1973 issue of the magazine:
Soren Johnson’s summary of Social Gaming / Facebook’s presence at SXSW, what it’s doing to the industry, and what it might do to the future of games. Potentially very bad for everyone. My favorite quote is this, which I think sums up my real problem with [those fucks] Zynga:
So many of the methods for making money are thinly-veiled scams that simply exploit psychological flaws in the human brain.
That, right there, is the problem I have with this stuff. It’s just gross.
Oh, the points you will earn in the future. I think saying the growth of Mafia Wars was driven by authenticity is a very silly, if not outright insulting. Authenticity is not something you can acquire.
Meaning you can add it to your dedicated chat client of choice. The official site has instructions for Pidgin, Adium, iChat, and the ever-popular “Other.”
I think my friend Shawn Medero has the right attitude, “we’ll see how much I hate this.”
What appears to be a PHP/C++ cross-compiler. This could be some serious mojo for PHP. That name is awful, though.
Financial terms not disclosed, as usual. The acquisition makes sense as Facebook has basically spent the last 6 months trying to emulate FriendFeed and Twitter.
Hey. What're you doing all the way down here? You get lost? Just looking around? Cool. I like you.