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Facebook Is the New MySpace
The big social networking site may be losing its grip.
Beware of any phrase that uses “social” as an adjective. Social network, like social justice or social change, is code for something pernicious.
Facebook’s stock has lost more than 25 percent of its value since its May 18 initial public offering. It’s hard not to see the company’s Wall Street woes as a metaphor for the product it pushes.
Facebook the site, like FB the stock, thrives more on hype than substance. FB’s price-to-earnings ratio hovers near 60, about four times greater than for the average S&P 500 stock. Facebook’s user-to-spammer ratio is nearly equal, with the anti-spam company Impermium (consider the source) estimating that spammers start as many as 40 percent of Facebook accounts.
Isn’t it all spam?
The stock is a waste of money. The site is a waste of time.
But an everybody-else-is-doing-it-so-why-shouldn’t-we attitude prevails on the stock and the site.
“Facebook friend” is another way of saying “stranger.” We allow people into our personal affairs who we may not even know personally. The site displays America’s shameful aversion to the greatest word in the English language: no. We are afraid to reject entreaties of online attachment, so we put our lives on display to people we wouldn’t let within fifty feet of our medicine cabinets. And to the extent that we do reject social-network solicitors, we do so in the passive-aggressive manner of ignoring, rather than refusing, their friend requests.
Computers have that dehumanizing effect on humans. They encourage people to treat the person at the other end of the computer like a computer.
If nothing else, the social network provides affirmation for why you don’t actually socialize with your reconnected friend from fifth grade. Whoever said “leave the past in the past” never said it to Mark Zuckerberg.
For the people who have yet to land their own reality television program, there is Facebook. There, exhibitionists can overshare and voyeurs can peep. But peoples’ lives grow boring to the people not leading them. So while the exhibitionist impulse of Facebook may never wane, the voyeuristic side of it eventually does.
In pre-Facebook days, an awkward encounter with a long lost acquaintance might result in a painfully-long three-minute tutorial on the stories behind all of the pictures trapped in a wallet. Now, people willingly embrace this treatment — at least for a time.
This is the Facebook phase. Like cramming a crowd into a phone booth or talking to truckers on a CB radio, this fad fades.
But Facebook, with its ubiquitous presence online and on television, refuses to let America defriend it. The site’s creators, as the events of the last two weeks suggest, have too much to lose.
The smartest people dedicate their lives to making the rest of us dumber. The creation of Facebook might be seen as a manifestation of the insecurity complexes of geeks. It’s not enough that they are so smart. They dedicate their lives to creating devices — Twitter, iPhones, Nintendos — aimed at lowering the collective IQ. The geek’s apartness from the bell curve’s ever-leftward-shifting peak becomes even more pronounced.
Smart people have strangely created a world in which to be smart is to be strange.
About the Author
Daniel J. Flynn, the author of The War on Football: Saving America’s Game, blogs at www.flynnfiles.com.
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Appleby| 6.1.12 @ 6:24AM
The vast majority of my facebook friends are people I actually know. I have no "devices" save my laptop and it stays firmly leashed to my desk. I look forward to the weekend when I can sit on my couch with the cat and read all day without having to make any decisions or talk to anybody. I grew up when things moved more slowly and I have made a deliberate choice not to speed up. And I can thank Ayn Rand for that -- after a friend wrecked my motorcycle and was awarded an entire summer in traction, someone who didn't know her brought her a copy of "Atlas Shrugged" to while away her time. Being a People Magazine type person she gave it to me and asked me to read it and tell her what it was about. I read it and found out that You Can Opt Out -- no matter what everybody else was doing, I could say "Not for me, thanks." I don't do anything I don't want to do. Lots of modern people don't understand that concept. If Facebook settles down to a broadsheet where I can read as much as I want to and let the rest go, that will be fine with me.
janetd| 6.1.12 @ 7:02AM
From day one I wanted nothing to do with Facebook mainly for the reason that I didn't want to join it because it seemed everybody else was. For me, that was reason enough not to. As time has gone on, and more light has been shed on such things as the privacy concerns, and political affiliations of Zuckerberg, I can state emphatically that I have never been so proud of myself for making a conscious choice not to contribute to the cultural rot that I feel Facebook contributes to.
Alan| 6.1.12 @ 7:49AM
I have never opted in to begin with. I use a cell phone for road trip emergencies only, home phone for everything else. Email for business or information and thats it. I am not presumptious enough to think of my life as anybody elses business or to have any desire to know anybody elses business or life.
South Park did a parady show on this subject and it was dead on. Its just another techno-fad for the brain dead.
TW in SC| 6.2.12 @ 10:37AM
Agree.
I lost interest in FB after a week and thought it an oddity, a fad and a place for kids.
When someone "tweets" something, I usually roll my eyes and think, "There's a thought that probably would've lost no energy if they just kept it to themselves. ".
By broadcasting all your activities, you open yourself to persecution and ridicule.
Von Mises Jr| 6.1.12 @ 8:01AM
I sold software for a living. Computers and applications are a tool, not a business and not a life. Just as a hammer can be used to build a house, a sledge hammer can take down a wall.
Let's examine this site. Troll Purp about a week ago answered a question to Purp as "Jefferson." Yesterday in the "Religious Fire Bell in the Night," I conditionally apologized to "Margie" and One Mediator Tim accepted. Brooks now also uses "Brookster" as a troll handle.
So while you are arguing with a Soros paid troll, he may have four, six or perhaps eight fictitious names. You are being computer scammed.
My recommendation is twofold. First, don’t argue with trolls. They have the best possible jobs they could secure making $20 disrupting your intelligent conversation. Second, be cognizant of what just happened to you. You were provided a false reality. If you can identify 15 to 20 trolls on the site, there are probably 3 or 4 communist behind the whole illusion.
I find the best way to get rid of them is to ask them to produce proof sources or book references to back their claims, or you end the conversation. Kudos to TAS for changing the login requirements to make the site better. But you should be aware why you now must login. It is because you were being scammed by fake "friends."
Albert Constantine Jr.| 6.1.12 @ 8:19AM
In the days before the internet and Facebook, a stalker or a peeping tom voyeur would have to use shoe leather. Now, so much can be done from the comfort of home, the bar to these avocations is much lower. Ah, for the good old days...
Pecos Pete| 6.1.12 @ 8:24AM
Facebook = Wasted Time = Fail
I expect FB stock to settle in at about $12 for the next year, then decline to $8 and continue the decline thereafter.
Derek Leaberry| 6.1.12 @ 1:17PM
Mark Zuckerberg will disappear just like JP Salinger, Ryan Leaf and Art Schlicter. Only he'll have a lot more money.
Gary B| 6.1.12 @ 8:46AM
I'm sure the owners of the company sensed the rough road ahead. So, they turned to the most reliably gullible buyers they could find - the public. They offloaded shares at a price they could never get from private investors. It's an old game. Now, full disclosure is the name of the game and the company's value will be determined by an informed free market.
Von Mises Jr| 6.1.12 @ 8:51AM
Q: What is the price of a collateralized debt obligation?
A: As much as the next sucker is willing to pay.
Gary B| 6.1.12 @ 11:08AM
Every transaction includes a buyer and a seller. Time always tells which one made the best choice. And time can convert today's sucker into tomorrow's genius.
Von Mises Jr| 6.1.12 @ 10:16PM
Geniuses are not buying Facebutt, my friend Gary. No advertizing revenue and no assets.
TW in SC| 6.2.12 @ 10:40AM
The definition of "a good deal" is where both parties think they screwed the other guy.
Von Mises Jr| 6.2.12 @ 12:20PM
The definition of free trade is when both people benefit from the trade. If I have a 50 lb tuna and you have bussels of tomato and cucumber, we both benefit by agreeing to exchange.
In fact, TW in SC, "division of labor" always benefits both parties and it is touted as the reason for civilization. If I didn't want to trade with you, we would have much less reason not to war and steal from each other.
TW in SC| 6.2.12 @ 5:32PM
VM, Jr, I agree with everything you said. I was just being a smart-aleck in my earlier post. Sorry if I detracted from your point. Didn't mean to do that, really.
Interestingly enough I just read a passage during my lunchtime reading of Levin's book "Ameritopia" that describes the exact point you just made here. Odd, that but definitely an impact.
Seriously, you make interesting points all the time.
Thanks for that.
tw
William R| 6.1.12 @ 9:23AM
Dumb article. No one yet knows how Facebook will perform over the long haul. I learned a long time ago not to write of internet stocks. Yahoo had a bright future and then Google came along. A search engine that has evolved into web browsers and cell phones(Droid). What's to say Facebook won't get into the browser business?? Cell phones?? TVs, etc etc. No one knows right now.
Dagny Taggert| 6.1.12 @ 9:50AM
Google's profit was based on their search advertising model. I would guess you've never spent a dime on FB, and never visited one of their advertisers. GM is pulling their advertising team off FB citing no tangible benefit. FB has jumped the shark. Half a billion users generating no income for the company, and the growth rate of new users has peaked. If FB were to start costing money, what do you think would happen to the user base?
William R| 6.1.12 @ 10:16AM
We won't know what their revenue looks like until they release first quarter earnings. I've learned about some great discounts on ski lodging from ads on Facebook. The potential to generate cash from advertising is there.
TW in SC| 6.2.12 @ 10:48AM
This is where you and I differ. I ignore advertising if/when I'm able. I have features on my computer that prevent advertising from invading my view. If I need something I shop for it. Though I do not categorically dismiss the benefit you have in "finding" deals, I need no such thing.
Advertising, though a necessary evil in the capitalistic world, and I do support it, I find it often pathetic, uninteresting, aimed at my baser instincts, insulting, lacking in creativity and too loud and in-my-face. My hometown has a ban on all billboards and signs for advertising. It's actually very nice to drive around and not have the scenery marred by some car-ad. I don't mind it in magazines because I can ignore them. But on the computer, when Jack-In-The-Box had their little animations going while I'm trying to read something, it's bloody annoying. Nowadays, I read the blogs unfettered by such things. It's a pleasure.
LiveFreeOrDie| 6.2.12 @ 2:19PM
I'm like you. I can't stand much of today's advertising but I'm betting that you, like me, aren't in the 18-34 demographic. These people spend money like fools which is why most advertising is geared towards this group.
Doctor Right| 6.1.12 @ 9:50AM
Facebook is over-rated, useless?
I can keep in touch with family/friends simply and efficiently with Facebook. It's also nice to cybernetically "meet" other people around the country (or world) with whom you have common interests - especially politics. A few of these people have become good friends, and I've met up with them when I travel.
As far as the narcissistic/voyeuristic qualities that Facebook enables, that's a case of the tail wagging the dog. Those kinds of people were already narcissists and/or voyeurs, and they will use a tool like Facebook to pursue their own freakish agendas.
The rest of us, however, are quite careful about whom we "friend," and whom we allow to access our info, photos, etc. Anyone who isn't may be asking for trouble, but that can happy on any social website.
Was the IPO over-hyped and over-rated? Yes.
Might Facebook eventually fade? Personally, I think it will. I see no reason as to why other social networking sites can't leach FB's customers over time, and if advertising revenues do not meet customer expectations, clients will pull-out (as GM did before the IPO).
But to simply dismiss FB's relevance is silly.
As an aside, I'm no fan of Zuckerberg. He's no Bill gates or Steve Jobs. Zuckerberg had one idea (a stolen idea) that hit big. Since that time, other than regular updates to the site (which are nothing but normal business functions), what else has he done?? What's his next BIG IDEA???
I'm not holding my breath.
JD| 6.1.12 @ 5:34PM
What's your next big idea? What's your first one?
There's no need to rag on Zuckerberg. If he starts being an active Democrat, then we can give him hell.
THKrupp| 6.1.12 @ 10:14AM
I dont understand a lot of the criticism of Facebook. If you dont like it..dont use it. Who knows if it will last 100 years. The writer almost takes a certain pleasure in hoping that it will go belly up. Is it so that he can say "see I was right!" or jelousy of some sort? Who really knows if its a good investment or not. There are companies in which people own stock that produce things that are actually proven to hurt you. Those stocks have made people money for many years. Why is it that talking on the phone is considered "real" yet the internet is not considered "real". Are only face to face interactons "real"?
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.1.12 @ 10:28AM
To me Facebook was just a way to catch up on old High School friends. It's like a glorified Yearbook.
It does allow you to follow various celebrities or stars or actors or writers or what have you, though they seldom, if ever, interact with posters. So it's an avenue of opportunity for such people to sell things to a somewhat captive audience. How Facebook makes money, I have no clue.
Crassus| 6.1.12 @ 10:41AM
When it comes to Facebook they call me Seven Up. Never had it. Never will.
Dr. B| 6.1.12 @ 11:01AM
My wife got me to join FB for a while, but it bored me to tears. My sister-in-law likes to post things like this: ' It's 2:16 pm and I am having that new flavor of ice cream at the new Ben and Jerry's (I LOVE Ben and Jerry's). I have to say that the taste is better than their new Schweddy Balls ice cream (which I ALSO LOVE). Oh Yay, my friend Zoe just came in! She's thinking of buying another Schnauser (She has 4 already!) ...
I could go on (she does; she goes on and on and on and on) but I quit face book and haven't looked back.
Facebook has some redeeming features, but vapid self-absorbed nonsence is abundant. I would predict that it's just a fad. I don't wish bad on Mr. Zuckerberg (although he seems to be a real jerk) but I think FB will fall to the next trendy thing to come along
Zeppo| 6.1.12 @ 12:59PM
Facebook confirms Sartre's dictum that hell is other people.
C'mon Man!| 6.1.12 @ 2:45PM
Thank you for the laugh...
That's about all Facebook, or any of those social networking sites, are worth.
Appleby| 6.2.12 @ 6:40AM
I think that comes under the heading of "Stupid is as Stupid does." Facebook saves me the trouble of slamming the door in the faces of people like that. Of course, the difficulty is that they don't KNOW I slammed the door in their faces, but being a person with a low tolerance for the vapid, I waste a lot less time.
On the other side of the coin is the head of Motorsport Ministries, whom I have sat under at many race tracs in the USA and Canada, whose brother has suddenly been diagnosed with a very aggressive cancer and who came onto Facebook to ask for the prayers of those who have met him and know him -- and others who are active prayer warriors and their friends. This allows me and the others who know him to rally round, either in more personal ways if we are that close to him, or in a pat-the-shoulder way as we promise (and deliver) the requested prayers. That makes him feel that a "cloud of witnesses" understands what he's going through and that he's not alone. It also allows people who have "been there" to give him tips and suggestions that may ease his and his brother's pain. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Bob K| 6.3.12 @ 12:59AM
Your sister-in-law's writing style is like Ben Steins!
Kingofthenet| 6.1.12 @ 11:27AM
Facebook is a FINE company....at the right price, and that price isn't more than McDonalds and Amazon.com
vigilant| 6.1.12 @ 2:08PM
You're quite the sleuth, Von Mises. As you know, the Internet makes it easy to create any persona, or multiple ones, a person might care to hide behind. Or to reveal TOO much--there's an epidemic of lack of discretion out there. People with a need for attention and a desire to insert themselves into the lives of others are drawn like moths to a flame. Any site offering those opportunities, such as Facebook or AmSpec, will have a good share of them. Your observations on trolls are interesting. Obviously, some people use more than one pseudonym, but I wonder if the converse is sometimes true, that more than one person posts under the same name. Take One Mediator Margie, for example. I've noticed that she can come across differently from one post to another, from lucid and thoughtful to an absurd, screeching rant. When commenting in the article on religion you reference, for instance, she makes two back-to-back responses to Appleby, each with a different tone and style. Wonder which it is-shared pseudonym or other issues....
Obadiah Plainman| 6.1.12 @ 2:37PM
Mr. Flynn sounds rather curmudgeonly whilst discussing Facebook. As an investment, there's no way I'd have touched it with a ten foot cattle prod nor ever spend a dime on it. However, there are some merits to it. I use FB as a primary source of news, surprisingly. Many of my favorite blogs & news sites (including this one!!) post to it regularly, I can get my TEA Party updates, chatter on topics and such from friends and sites in a way that the ADHD-like brevity of Twitter doesn't allow. I find value in that. And the social interaction with people, old classmates, fraternity brothers, et al, is a major plus.
cicero| 6.1.12 @ 2:58PM
Isn't it rather ironic that at about the same time that our geniusses on the Supreme Court found a constitutional right to privacy, causing an endless array of forms to be generated and required, Facebook comes along, and all of the hoi poloi decide to divulge to the world where that secret tattoo is, and what it really looks like?
As far as the stock issue, anyone who even peeked inside the offering circular would have known right away what was going to happen. All of the insiders were cashing out. If it was such a hot item, treasury stock would have been sold to bring money into the company to expand its business. In fact, there is no business. It is only a take off on the old party line. Once you got tired or bored listening to the ladies on the line, you hung up. You didn't buy a second phone on the same line.
Sir Mark| 6.1.12 @ 3:16PM
There are some fine companies who use Facebook for commerce. My son works for one of them. As a matter of fact, his very job hinges on Facebook staying viable, so I would appreciate it very much if you old geezers would stop talking it down.
Buck Ofama| 6.3.12 @ 5:17PM
If you son's job is dependent on FuckBook, then, oh... forget it. You would not understand anyway.
cicero| 6.1.12 @ 4:00PM
Sir Mark. It is what it is. I'm sure there were a few guys in auto design that lost their positions when the Edsel tanked. Their fathers were probably disappointed ,too.
JD| 6.1.12 @ 5:31PM
I barely use Facebook, but this Facebook hate is ridiculous. It seems like something that would come from arch-liberals: hatred of others' success.
All activities are subject to excess, abuse, and generally repugnant behavior. That doesn't mean everyone on Facebook meets the absurd stereotype being pushed by articles like this. There are LOTS of useful functions that Facebook provides far better than alternatives. Online "identity" is one. A single repository for pictures and other keepsakes is another. A single, persistent, easily accessed personal contact list is a third. Textual "conferencing" and other logistical planning is a fourth.
The article complains that many people have Facebook friends that they would otherwise have no contact with. That may be true, but that doesn't mean it's bad. A lot of the novelty of Facebook in its early days was the opportunity to find long-lost classmates and other acquaintances, and lots of people REALLY LIKED that. I didn't lose touch with everyone I lost touch with out of apathy, and I was glad to be reconnected.
At the same time, I don't add "friends" that I don't want added.
In short, this is a "throw the baby out with the bathwater" agenda of grumpy old men who either don't understand Facebook or are jealous of it. Is it overvalued? I've long thought it is. But that doesn't mean it's worthless.
JD| 6.1.12 @ 5:35PM
My point is, even if "Facebook" fades, the concepts it has implemented are not "fads" any more than the automobile was a fad.
Obadiah Plainman| 6.2.12 @ 11:16AM
That's precisely correct. Given the proliferation of instant global communication, the concept behind Facebook is here to stay. I remember my Mom used to diligently send anniversary/birthday cards to everyone she knew--she used to have a small card catalog thing that held everyone's info, addresses and sorted by date. Those days are sadly gone, akin to the buggy whip. Those days have gone digital and in a social way.
Dr. B| 6.1.12 @ 5:41PM
On the bright side, if FB fails, they should be eligible for a government bailout! Correct, sir Mark? Since their IPO was a disaster, perhaps NOW Obama will look at FB as a 'sound investment in our future'
Then he can turn it into a liberal only outlet and alienate half the subscribers, and then FB can file for bankruptcy, Obama bundlers paid first, and taxpayers not at all. Yeah that should stimulate the economy.
Gooms | 6.1.12 @ 6:04PM
It 's a waste of time? Guess how I found this article you dilly bar! Facebook has allowed me to "keep up" with friends and family members and to forward conservative forums and ideas. The Tea Party thrives on Facebook and will influence this election as it did the mid-terms. Yes, you can "accept" "friends" who are actually strangers, but you get out of Facebook what you put in it. I use Facebook to actually strengthen my friendships. When I visit someone, we have more to talk about and discuss since I can see what they have been up to. It is obvious that the author simply has an animus towards the site and finds it a negative. He is dead wrong about the "usefulness" of the site. He is, however, right on about the financial aspect and the potential monetization of the site. I never click an advertisement and I ignore them completely. I have never made a purchase decision based on anything I viewed on Facebook. The stock is and will remain, a stinker.
William Peck 1958| 6.1.12 @ 7:24PM
I like Facebook, it's a way of extending one's reach. You connect with like minded people and learn more than you would staring at the TV.
But it's too complicated, that imo is it's downfall. This is not surprising giving the immaturity of the founder.
Buck Ofama| 6.3.12 @ 5:15PM
You think FakeBook is too complicated? What you have been dealing with is software bugs.
And you say that you learn more than from TV? Do you believe all the stupid self-absorbed shit that people write about their boring lives?
You would learn a great deal more by simply watching the weather channel.
I'll bet your next week's pay check that you bought FraudBook stock, LOL.
PCPSmoker| 6.1.12 @ 7:46PM
"hey dedicate their lives to creating devices -- Twitter, iPhones, Nintendos -- aimed at lowering the collective IQ"
Uh? Do you even know the differences among an iPhone, a nintendo console, and twitter? This is an idiotic statement.
I understand Facebook might not be for you, but how do you conclude that an iPhone or information fountain Twitter makes you dumber is beyond me. Time to get under the rock, Flynn. The 20th century ended over a decade ago.
Appleby| 6.2.12 @ 6:47AM
Twitter and its little binkies is raising the collective IQ, as those who can't raise their eyes from that thing between their thumbs are being hit by cars, falling down the stairs and into fountains, and crashing their cars into railroad trains. Unfortunately there are a lot of tweetheads who are running their cars into innocent cars, running over pedestrians who are minding their own business, and falling onto the train tracks where they delay thousands of people and traumatize the engineer who couldn't stop in time to avoid killing them.
However, Daddy said that about motorcycles when we girls wanted them as teenagers, and he was probably right when he said "I'll buy you one of those for your last birthday."
Robert Pinkerton| 6.2.12 @ 9:28AM
As much as it is an "as-if" "drug" for narcissists and spammers, Facebook is also, I submit, as much of an as-if "drug" for nostalgiacs as is "MeTV" (Me standing for Memorable entertainment television -- reruns from decades[!] ago).
Simon Templar| 6.2.12 @ 12:19PM
The concept of a personal web page has been around for 15 years. The concept of forums and discussion groups as well. All of these application concepts have been around a long time.
The facebook whiz kid had the brainy idea to write a program that would combine the two and package it so it was easy to use and set up and personalize.
This is really not a business but a concept.
There WILL be other competitors and similar applications developed that will offer choices and perhaps even more bells and whistles. So, investor beware.
As new technology develops in the internet sphere and communicatons area, this indeed could be just a passing fad and the market will move onto new and more exciting ways to communicate with family an friends and stroke one's egos.
The personal computer has now become a communication device rather than just a information highway or data storage and instant retrieval system. I believe this will eventual meld with the televison network and entertainment system whereby all communication, knowledege sharing, andentetainment will be one medium.
Facebook will soon be just another service among dozens and dozens of other choices and mediums.
Col Bat Guano| 6.2.12 @ 3:33PM
I remember reading Mötley Fool or some other online stock advisor about Facebook's pending IPO about 6 months ago. The advice? "Don't Buy.". Why? Facebook boasted about a bazillion users worldwide before the IPO so where is the growth potential? Zuckerberg (funny. My smart phone tried correcting his name to "Sucker erg") isn't all that bright - he should have offered this IPO before he conquered the world.
Buck Ofama| 6.3.12 @ 5:12PM
FadBook
FakeBook
FoolBook
etc.
Grzmlyk| 6.4.12 @ 1:19PM
I've never understood the Facebook appeal. I had an old friend look me up and harangue me till I joined - and it was worse than I imagined. After we spent a week of back-and-forth catching up, we both slid back into our separate lives.
Now I just leave it alone and ignore the many prods and pokes I get from people I knew 30 years ago, or from those I don't want to hear from under any circumstances.
It is either a fad or else a searing indictment of the modern psyche, which, apparently, only exists if we have near-strangers there to witness and "like" it.
I have long thought Facebook would fade; the hype around its IPO simply confirmed PT Barnum's aphorism: There's a sucker born every minute.
Its future has more in common with AOl and Yahoo than with Google.
In five years, FB will be a vast wasteland of thirsty advertisers wringing the last drops of value out of a moribund construct, dotted by a few die-hard narcissists who think we care about the mundane details of their lives.
Hint: We don't.
Warren| 6.4.12 @ 3:42PM
I'm amused by this type of article that assumes a point of view that agrees with the author's experience and then assumes it's true of everyone.
My experience has been that I have met and enjoyed meaningful relationship with many, many people. Old highschool friends have been reconnected with, new friends have been made and talked to on the phone, come to visit my house and I have been to visit them.
As to the evils of facebook I haven't yet encountered any other than a couple of sexy babes who perhaps wanted my body, IDK. Perhaps they didn't peruse my pictures as they should have...
Anyway I and my many friends, will continue to enjoy FB regardless of what Mr Flynn's experience is.
maillot de bain pas cher | 6.5.12 @ 5:24AM
Facebook the site, like FB the stock, thrives more on hype than substance. FB’s price-to-earnings ratio hovers near 60, about four times greater than for the average S&P 500 stock. Facebook’s user-to-spammer ratio is nearly equal, with the anti-spam company Impermium (consider the source) estimating that spammers start as many as 40 percent of Facebook accounts.