Comments on: Facebook goes hyperlocal with Neighborhoods

By: Larry Lang

Larry Lang — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:03:00 +0000

I think that the addition of facebooks and point2 neighborhoods wil mesh tgether nicely, being associated with both.

By: hello

hello — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:59:32 +0000

hey people get a life, sitting in front of computer and post photos of you that doesn’t eve look like you is very cheap, and if you are attractive then why you need facebook to tell the world that

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:33:18 +0000

I had a different odd experience with Facebook. I has signed up using a company email address, and everything seemed fine until last week when I was told the account had been closed.

I finally heard back from their customer service person, with this:

Facebook profiles are intended for use by a single individual. Groups, clubs, and other types of organizations are not permitted to maintain an account. I apologize for the inconvenience, but you will no longer be able to use this account.

If you would like to use Facebook to bring your organization together and coordinate activities, we offer a Groups feature. Facebook Groups allow people to come together to express objectives, discuss issues,
post photos, etc. If you have a personal Facebook profile, you can create one of these groups from that account. The option to ‘Create Group’ is available at the top of the Groups page.”

Ummm….what made them think I was using my account as a ‘group’ account?

Weird.

By: Dave Lee

Dave Lee — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:47:25 +0000

Michael… sign up with a slight variation (Michael Guy?) and then you can request to change your name once registered. I think.

By: BaghdadBrian

BaghdadBrian — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:39:55 +0000

Maybe I’m just old fashioned (or from the south where we believe in conversation and porches and free refills), but this seems a little much to me.

Then again, I don’t use facebook and don’t really get “social-networking.” I like to talk to people, and I’m not afraid to talk to my neighbors before putting them through something analogous to a 2.0 neighbor-dating service.

where will it all end?

By: saundra

saundra — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:55:27 +0000

So, how does this square with all the lectures I give my 13-year-old about not putting ANY personal information out there on the web. How might a potential criminal element exploit this bit of zip-coded info????

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:56:01 +0000

Hey Michael, I did a check and found others with your same name. I wonder how they signed up??

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:10:58 +0000

So will this help facilitate more key parties?

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:33:14 +0000

I have a complaint about Facebook. It wouldn’t let me register. It said my name wasn’t allowed and I had to go through an approval process. The site said “Facebook disallows certain names and words in names that tend to be associated with fake accounts.” What seems fake about “Michael Gay”?

Hmm….

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:28:58 +0000

Another great addition to Facebook. It will be interesting to see how the younger folks react with more features that attract adults and more importantly, their parents.

There’s a definite balancing act Facebook will have to play as they continue to grow.