That's it i'm clsing my facebook account

I just cant get off of it, I say to myself Im not gonna go on it for two hours, then whilst on the net, I automatically go to facebook. Then think, arghh im on it again!!!
 
So basically this just means that some 'tards will put FB apps on their websites?

Let's face it, the 'tards that install those sort of crap apps are hardly likely to be running their own website, let alone know how to integrate an iframe.
 
you just know there'll be a wordpress extension so you can put facebook apps on your wordpress, though
 
divosuk said:
I think everyone should close all their Social networking accounts. They are one of the more useless entities on the internet at the moment if you ask me & responsible for a lot of kids with 'issues'

They are turning the next generation into cyborgs - only able to get happiness if they have more than 50 imaginary freinds of friends & some pictures of their good looking females friends they chatted to for 30 seconds at a party.

The sooner they die out the better - people might actually be able to communicate like humans again, and actually smile and have a real laugh with each other rather than send on a stupid animated gif to make up for being too lazy to make the effort.
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What a pathetic, closed mind you must have.
I live on a small island
I make very good friends every year with the seasonal staff
they then leave - facebook is a convenient, easy method of keeping in touch with all of them. Keeping in touch means i can travel and visit them, to "communicate like humans again and actually smile and have a real laugh" rather than losing touch completly.
 
I think there may be some misinterpretation of what this news actually means... this comment from the blog expresses it without me having to bother to write it out myself:

# Luke Noel-Storr

January 27th, 2008 at 1:53 am

I’m really puzzled why this is being reported everywhere as such a big deal.

All it means is you can now access the API via JavaScript without exposing your secret key.

Developers have always been able to make use of the API on external websites, just very few do. I’m really not sure how being able to do so with client side only code is such a big deal.

Would anyone really develop a “social gaming platform” on a site that didn’t support server side coding?

I guess maybe the only thing is that all this reporting may make developers realise they been able to use the API outside of Facebook since the start.
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You could develop applications for an external website before you could develop them for facebook itself.
 
Sic said:
I was being facetious. I know I can't really!

Logically, sites will only be able to tell facebook about you if you've got that app installed on your profile. When you install them, don't you have to give people rights to access your personal data and stuff?
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There is one thing I found quite surprising.. it's been changed now but when the feature was first introduced ebay (etc.) would announce your purchases on your facebook profile without any actual confirmation from the user. You didn't have to add any apps but external websites could contact facebook and add to your profile. It now adds a confirmation box at the top the first time I believe.
I played a game that someone had linked to on ocuk on a website I'd never visited or heard of before, and when I finished playing it suddenly told me my high score had been uploaded to my profile on facebook. Then when I logged in it asked. Quite disturbing really.
 
Just avoid pointless social networking websites in the future and you will never have this problem again.

Reminds me of those people at school on msn, they sign upto windows live messenger, get about 100 contacts that they never speak to just for the sake of looking popular, send tons of those pointless invitations to get other people to sign up and then after a few months never use it again. So much spam, I get something like 5 emails a week with "xxx wants to add you as a friend on xxx website", so annoying and utterly useless.
 
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Kerplunk said:
If you close your account, is it gone forever? or is it stored on the FB server and just re-log in?
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Your data stays on their system until you manually go through and delete each item individually. It's rather wooly, but that is in the T&C's I think, which are much like Google's, in the way that they do own whatever you give them and can use it how they want.
 
You can log in and re-activate it.

Over 2 months since I closed my account, I have not missed it one bit.
 
divosuk said:
I think everyone should close all their Social networking accounts. They are one of the more useless entities on the internet at the moment if you ask me & responsible for a lot of kids with 'issues'

They are turning the next generation into cyborgs - only able to get happiness if they have more than 50 imaginary freinds of friends & some pictures of their good looking females friends they chatted to for 30 seconds at a party.

The sooner they die out the better - people might actually be able to communicate like humans again, and actually smile and have a real laugh with each other rather than send on a stupid animated gif to make up for being too lazy to make the effort.
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I don't know about you, but everyone on my facebook profile is a friend of mine. All of them except for two I have met personally, and the two I haven't I know I can vouch for ;)
 
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