i survived classmates.com, livejournal, friendster, orkut, myspace and consumating, to name but a few evil social-networking web abominations. i'm NOT going to be suckered into drinking the facebook kool-aid.
besides, to quash colene's favourite excuse: i don't look better than my highschool classmates, so why would i want them to see me looking exactly the way i did back then?
oh, and it's totally evil. bad, bad, evil bad.
You will be assimilated.
to get it right, my favourite excuse is to be nosy. i like to gossip and i can't gossip unless i have something to gossip about!
oh and i'll start using gmail when you start using facebook :P
Don't believe everything you see on youtube or other videos made by 17 year old wanna-be journalists who don't read far enough into the user agreement to understand what it actually means. Having a look at www.answers.com/topic/facebook will reveal that the "Development Platform" that people talk about when they say Facebook is selling info isn't actually your information, but programming code that allows new tools and development of Facebook. So there ya have it.
Anyway, I believe we've been giving away personal information for a lot longer, and a lot more of it on our own without a content management system to aggregate it for a company via our own blogs.
But as with all things on the net, Facebook will fade when the next best thing comes along, and mark my words, that next best thing will feature a function that is called "Import all your contacts from Facebook."
The only thing that makes me vaguely curious about facebook is I kept getting hits from one particular link from a facebook page, but since I wasn't a member, I couldn't see what the link was about. But that died down a while back, so I'm back to saying face-what?
That's pretty frightening -- the video. Granted, some of her professional relationship logic gets a little "six degrees of separation" (especially since one logical conclusion is that anything ever having been related to BBNPlanet or arpanet could be connected to the US Information Agency's data mining efforts (kind of like saying anyone who's ever shopped at the Bay may be complicit in giving infected blankets to first nations), but it still gets a person thinking.
The part I found suspicious is their pay $1 (credit card only) to give a "gift" to someone feature. Credit card # mining technique? I stayed away. . . .
Consumating is evil? UH-oh.
So, uh, being that this is the first online networking crap I've been suckered into (blame my sister), am I a bad person? :-)
well... it certainly does confirm your evil status. =)