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Well since we are on the topic of facebook:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/li ... ml?sid=101
relationships
No face value? 'Unfriend' them
Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:15 AM
By Kevin Joy
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
You met her at a mutual friend's party -- a one-time acquaintance seeking a digital connection.
He sent you a message through Facebook -- an old middle-school buddy married and living on the West Coast.
A co-worker from the accounting office -- someone you rarely see outside the elevator -- is requesting an online friendship, too.
Do you want to confirm? Uh, OK.
Yet, as time passes (and "friend" tallies grow), certain users start to stand out.
Their posts are written with poor grammar or seem overly political. Their Tweets become dull or self-absorbed. And their photos of a stranger's baby get in the way of other feeds.
Eventually, the resulting frustration for you and others inspires a puzzling realization: Who are all these people?
Increasingly, your response might involve silent retribution: You cut the virtual cord.
One click, and it's over.
As Internet social circles (and their incessant, look-at-me white noise) expand, unfriending is becoming more and more common.
So common, in fact, that the verb unfriend this week was named the New Oxford American Dictionary "word of the year" for 2009.
Its meaning: "to remove someone as a 'friend' on a social-networking site such as Facebook."
(Coincidentally, the dictionary previously listed unfriend -- dating from a 1659 citation loosely defined as the termination of a real-life friendship.)
And, although many prefer to say "de-friend," the New York publisher opted for the "un" prefix, even though it is more commonly associated with adjectives.
"It does have a better grammatical soundness to it -- comparable to verbs such as unpack or unsubscribe," said Christine Lindberg, a senior Oxford lexicographer for the U.S. dictionary program.
"You're undoing something."
Either way, the term doesn't mystify many Web junkies.
"It's a non-offensive way to tell someone you're not interested in them anymore," said Krista Holloway, a public-relations manager for SBC Advertising in the Arena District.
Holloway has about 500 Facebook friends and follows 910 people on the micro-blogging Web site Twitter.
The 30-year-old has nixed a handful because of foul language and the frequent pushing of political or religious content -- and, although she doesn't feel guilty, the procedure has given her pause.
"It's really a sign of the times," she said. "We're evaluating our friendships, . . . who we want to be connected with through these mediums instead of a face-to-face interaction."
Of course, most people -- including Holloway -- don't ax close friends or family members.
Yet the definition of friend in 2009 isn't quite clear, especially as the word pertains to Internet-based rapport.
Does your tech-savvy real-estate agent count? How about a college classmate from three years ago?
"There are definitely people we consider much more of an online acquaintance. We need to come up with a word for that," said Justin Jonas, an East Side retail associate.
Digital friends, he noted, might make for strange relationships.
"You know what they think about the Buckeyes, but you have no idea where they grew up or even where they live," said the 27-year-old, who unfriended people for political "untruths" posted on their profile pages during the 2008 election.
Unfriending is typically a silent endeavor.
Facebook, for example, doesn't notify the subject of his or her severance. From a user with a private profile, the banished find themselves blocked.
The same goes for Twitter -- but members who wish to communicate via direct message (similar to e-mail) find that such dialogue is no longer possible, as the messaging happens just between two people who opt to "follow" each other.
Still, the ending of friendships -- however peripheral -- sometimes poses consequences, said Irene Levine, the Chappaqua, N.Y., author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup With Your Best Friend.
"In real life, dumping a friend or getting rid of a friend is extremely difficult. Why should it be any different on the Internet?" said Levine, who on Tuesday wrote online about the Oxford designation.
"It calls for more tolerance, maybe -- . . . the idea that it's OK for people to have different kinds of political attitudes and persuasions."
As the number of friends swells, though, pruning becomes key.
Walker Evans, who runs ColumbusUnderground.com, updated his Facebook status in early October to indicate he would be inflicting a "purge" on his list of friends -- which exceeded 1,000.
He has since cut the tally to 746.
Topping the hit list: strangers who "friended" the entrepreneur because they knew his name from public events or the Internet.
"A few months go by, we still hadn't met, and yet I'm seeing every single bit of their lives -- where they're going to eat, what their dog did that day," said Evans, 29.
"You have to cut out the white noise if you want the tools to be somewhat productive."
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Facebook doesn't notify the subject of his or her severance.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/li ... ml?sid=101
relationships
No face value? 'Unfriend' them
Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:15 AM
By Kevin Joy
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
You met her at a mutual friend's party -- a one-time acquaintance seeking a digital connection.
He sent you a message through Facebook -- an old middle-school buddy married and living on the West Coast.
A co-worker from the accounting office -- someone you rarely see outside the elevator -- is requesting an online friendship, too.
Do you want to confirm? Uh, OK.
Yet, as time passes (and "friend" tallies grow), certain users start to stand out.
Their posts are written with poor grammar or seem overly political. Their Tweets become dull or self-absorbed. And their photos of a stranger's baby get in the way of other feeds.
Eventually, the resulting frustration for you and others inspires a puzzling realization: Who are all these people?
Increasingly, your response might involve silent retribution: You cut the virtual cord.
One click, and it's over.
As Internet social circles (and their incessant, look-at-me white noise) expand, unfriending is becoming more and more common.
So common, in fact, that the verb unfriend this week was named the New Oxford American Dictionary "word of the year" for 2009.
Its meaning: "to remove someone as a 'friend' on a social-networking site such as Facebook."
(Coincidentally, the dictionary previously listed unfriend -- dating from a 1659 citation loosely defined as the termination of a real-life friendship.)
And, although many prefer to say "de-friend," the New York publisher opted for the "un" prefix, even though it is more commonly associated with adjectives.
"It does have a better grammatical soundness to it -- comparable to verbs such as unpack or unsubscribe," said Christine Lindberg, a senior Oxford lexicographer for the U.S. dictionary program.
"You're undoing something."
Either way, the term doesn't mystify many Web junkies.
"It's a non-offensive way to tell someone you're not interested in them anymore," said Krista Holloway, a public-relations manager for SBC Advertising in the Arena District.
Holloway has about 500 Facebook friends and follows 910 people on the micro-blogging Web site Twitter.
The 30-year-old has nixed a handful because of foul language and the frequent pushing of political or religious content -- and, although she doesn't feel guilty, the procedure has given her pause.
"It's really a sign of the times," she said. "We're evaluating our friendships, . . . who we want to be connected with through these mediums instead of a face-to-face interaction."
Of course, most people -- including Holloway -- don't ax close friends or family members.
Yet the definition of friend in 2009 isn't quite clear, especially as the word pertains to Internet-based rapport.
Does your tech-savvy real-estate agent count? How about a college classmate from three years ago?
"There are definitely people we consider much more of an online acquaintance. We need to come up with a word for that," said Justin Jonas, an East Side retail associate.
Digital friends, he noted, might make for strange relationships.
"You know what they think about the Buckeyes, but you have no idea where they grew up or even where they live," said the 27-year-old, who unfriended people for political "untruths" posted on their profile pages during the 2008 election.
Unfriending is typically a silent endeavor.
Facebook, for example, doesn't notify the subject of his or her severance. From a user with a private profile, the banished find themselves blocked.
The same goes for Twitter -- but members who wish to communicate via direct message (similar to e-mail) find that such dialogue is no longer possible, as the messaging happens just between two people who opt to "follow" each other.
Still, the ending of friendships -- however peripheral -- sometimes poses consequences, said Irene Levine, the Chappaqua, N.Y., author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup With Your Best Friend.
"In real life, dumping a friend or getting rid of a friend is extremely difficult. Why should it be any different on the Internet?" said Levine, who on Tuesday wrote online about the Oxford designation.
"It calls for more tolerance, maybe -- . . . the idea that it's OK for people to have different kinds of political attitudes and persuasions."
As the number of friends swells, though, pruning becomes key.
Walker Evans, who runs ColumbusUnderground.com, updated his Facebook status in early October to indicate he would be inflicting a "purge" on his list of friends -- which exceeded 1,000.
He has since cut the tally to 746.
Topping the hit list: strangers who "friended" the entrepreneur because they knew his name from public events or the Internet.
"A few months go by, we still hadn't met, and yet I'm seeing every single bit of their lives -- where they're going to eat, what their dog did that day," said Evans, 29.
"You have to cut out the white noise if you want the tools to be somewhat productive."
[email protected]
Facebook doesn't notify the subject of his or her severance.
https://www.facebook.com/NeXTCODER
So I'm reading the latest Time, an article about the company that does Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc. They're all from the same company, Zynga, and were created by a guy who "learned them by trial and error, mainly while working no his two failed start-ups, Tribe.net..."
It just made me laugh, hearing Tribe referred to as "failed."
It just made me laugh, hearing Tribe referred to as "failed."
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You mean Time magazine?
Nevermind, I found them.
Thanks for the heads up.
http://www.time.com/time/business/artic ... 98,00.html
Nevermind, I found them.
Thanks for the heads up.
http://www.time.com/time/business/artic ... 98,00.html
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And people wonder why I say "FAIL" when it comes to these games:
The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars
Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games
" The issue came to a head on Nov. 1 when the blogger Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch confronted some of the advertising providers at a virtual goods summit with accusations of scammy behavior. He blogged about it and also managed to find a former social-networking ad executive who admitted that the industry knew that not all the ads were on the up-and-up. (See how to plan for retirement at any age.)
Mark Pincus of Zynga, the largest and most profitable of the social-networking game companies, (it created FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Cafe World) was quick to respond. "I agree with [Arrington] and others that some of these offers misrepresent and hurt our industry," he wrote on his blog. "We have worked hard to remove bad offers ... Nevertheless we need to be more aggressive and have revised our service-level agreements." He also took down all offers that involve sending a mobile-phone number. Offerpal, the biggest provider of offer advertising, also apparently responded quickly, replacing CEO Anu Shukla, shortly after a video of her confrontation with Arrington surfaced"
The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars
Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games
" The issue came to a head on Nov. 1 when the blogger Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch confronted some of the advertising providers at a virtual goods summit with accusations of scammy behavior. He blogged about it and also managed to find a former social-networking ad executive who admitted that the industry knew that not all the ads were on the up-and-up. (See how to plan for retirement at any age.)
Mark Pincus of Zynga, the largest and most profitable of the social-networking game companies, (it created FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Cafe World) was quick to respond. "I agree with [Arrington] and others that some of these offers misrepresent and hurt our industry," he wrote on his blog. "We have worked hard to remove bad offers ... Nevertheless we need to be more aggressive and have revised our service-level agreements." He also took down all offers that involve sending a mobile-phone number. Offerpal, the biggest provider of offer advertising, also apparently responded quickly, replacing CEO Anu Shukla, shortly after a video of her confrontation with Arrington surfaced"
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And to ad insult to injury:
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"Offerpal, the biggest provider of offer advertising, also apparently responded quickly, replacing CEO Anu Shukla, shortly after a video of her confrontation with Arrington surfaced. Other game developers said the accusations amount to nothing more than the rants of an attention-hungry blogger."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/artic ... z0Y4dglQVl
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This one is for K.:
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... z0Y4p6NwNS"Unlike in a "real" video game, you can't really lose. The constant stream of rewards is addictive; you become like a rat who can't stop pushing the lever to get the little pellets. Your resources constantly regenerate, and the game is always giving you random items that you don't even know how you earned. People in your mafia send you gifts too. The game will try to make you give them in return, and tell them about things you're doing and — this is important — recruit more members to your mafia. It's all for the good of your business. And Zynga's. (Read "Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games?")
The truth is, you don't really play Mafia Wars; it plays you. It rewards you lavishly for doing next to nothing and for propagating its viral spores further and further into your social network, thereby perpetuating its existence. In fact, Mafia Wars isn't so much a game as a parasite: it lives in the petri dish of the social-networking sphere and feeds off your attention. Try to quit, and it begs and bribes you to fall off the wagon again. It's just a game, but it's like the real mafia in that one respect: just when you think you're out, it pulls you right back in."
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[b]EXCUSE ME, TIME MAGAZINE! THIS IS RHINO OF BURNINGMAN TRIBE FROM A SUPPOSEDLY DEAD ONLINE SERVICE CONTACTING YOU TO TELL YOU THAT YOU MESSED UP! SINCE I'M DEAD AND THEREFORE A ZOMBIE, I'M GOING ELSEWHERE BECAUSE YOU MOFOS DON'T HAVE ANY BRAINS LEFT![/b]
Greetings, all.
One last time for effect:
Time magazine, kiss my hairy Rhino ass you bunch of no load asswipe fools. :twisted:
Greetings, all.
One last time for effect:
Time magazine, kiss my hairy Rhino ass you bunch of no load asswipe fools. :twisted:
Rue Morgue - '08, '09
Black Rock Beacon - '2010, 2012-2016
(lux, veritas, lardum)
Bacon is forever. Veni, vidi, pertudi. (We came, we saw, we DRILLED.) - BRC Div. of Geology 2009-2015
I'm here until the serendipitous synchronicity is ubiquitous.
Black Rock Beacon - '2010, 2012-2016
(lux, veritas, lardum)
Bacon is forever. Veni, vidi, pertudi. (We came, we saw, we DRILLED.) - BRC Div. of Geology 2009-2015
I'm here until the serendipitous synchronicity is ubiquitous.
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Hey Rhino! Good to see your hairy Rhino ass around these parts! And I see you brought Master Po with you! Good stuff!^Rhino! wrote:EXCUSE ME, TIME MAGAZINE! THIS IS RHINO OF BURNINGMAN TRIBE FROM A SUPPOSEDLY DEAD ONLINE SERVICE CONTACTING YOU TO TELL YOU THAT YOU MESSED UP! SINCE I'M DEAD AND THEREFORE A ZOMBIE, I'M GOING ELSEWHERE BECAUSE YOU MOFOS DON'T HAVE ANY BRAINS LEFT!
Greetings, all.
One last time for effect:
Time magazine, kiss my hairy Rhino ass you bunch of no load asswipe fools.
;+}
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I have, indeed. Time for the periodic breakdown of Tribe ...DVD Burner wrote:Have we seen the latest error message from Tribe today?
If you (whoever is reading this) are logged into Tribe, try to not log out of Tribe. I just tried to log in, using Firefox, and found a page of "horrible exceptions", but looking at an account that was logged in, everything seemed to be running fine, for the moment.
Clicking that little box before logging in seems to be a good idea.
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Another gripe because I can and I've been told by idiots, even on this board, I dont know what I am doing.
Has anyone tried the share functions in Tribe?
I have a real hard time understanding why they dont work.
Doing a facebook connect and share is pathetically simple.
That the fuck is up with that? I cant advert my friends events from Tribe.
I do not have a problem doing it, I do it with all my websites all the time.
I JUST DO NOT GET IT. And this guy is getting PAID!
Has anyone tried the share functions in Tribe?
I have a real hard time understanding why they dont work.
Doing a facebook connect and share is pathetically simple.
That the fuck is up with that? I cant advert my friends events from Tribe.
I do not have a problem doing it, I do it with all my websites all the time.
I JUST DO NOT GET IT. And this guy is getting PAID!
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PINCUS AND ZYNGA WON THE CRUNCHIES LAST NIGHT!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/09/th ... o-gallery/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/09/th ... o-gallery/
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Zynga Tiptoes Back Into Offers
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/zy ... to-offers/
by Michael Arrington on January 12, 2010
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus pulled all in-game offers in the wake of Scamville. At the time, he said “We recognize it is our responsibility to ensure that offers which generate a bad user experience are not shown with any of our games. Therefore, we are removing all CPA offers across zynga games until we can control their inclusion and presentation ourselves.â€
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/zy ... to-offers/
by Michael Arrington on January 12, 2010
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus pulled all in-game offers in the wake of Scamville. At the time, he said “We recognize it is our responsibility to ensure that offers which generate a bad user experience are not shown with any of our games. Therefore, we are removing all CPA offers across zynga games until we can control their inclusion and presentation ourselves.â€
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I THINK THAT I AM GOING TO BE FULL-BLOWN UPSET WITH NO LESS THAN A RAPIDLY SPINNING TAZ SMASHING THINGS AT RANDOM. THEY LET PINCUS HAVE A CRUNCHIE?Mark Pincus is an evil piece of tech debris who has no place in the system.
And I guess he doesn't believe in the Kobiyashi Maru scenario either.
Pincus, go take a long walk off a very short pier.
Rue Morgue - '08, '09
Black Rock Beacon - '2010, 2012-2016
(lux, veritas, lardum)
Bacon is forever. Veni, vidi, pertudi. (We came, we saw, we DRILLED.) - BRC Div. of Geology 2009-2015
I'm here until the serendipitous synchronicity is ubiquitous.
Black Rock Beacon - '2010, 2012-2016
(lux, veritas, lardum)
Bacon is forever. Veni, vidi, pertudi. (We came, we saw, we DRILLED.) - BRC Div. of Geology 2009-2015
I'm here until the serendipitous synchronicity is ubiquitous.
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I'm just waiting to see how long it will take before we start hearing about how Zynga has been putting Trojans in their games.
I'm not saying they are doing that, I am saying it would not surprise me with their scam practices and the other companies they work with scam practices.
I'm not saying they are doing that, I am saying it would not surprise me with their scam practices and the other companies they work with scam practices.
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So OMG, I got a pm from a good good friend I havent seen or talked to in over a yr....ON TRIBE!
So...of course...that means I had to go there.....
WTF over?
I cant even believe that web place still exists? It took foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to load!
If I even knew how to delete my account...I would.
Geeze...why do you all still go there....worse...why do some of you PAY to use it?
So...of course...that means I had to go there.....
WTF over?
I cant even believe that web place still exists? It took foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to load!
If I even knew how to delete my account...I would.
Geeze...why do you all still go there....worse...why do some of you PAY to use it?
Names pinemom, but my friends call me "Piney".
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I know... I shouldve dialed direct HUH?!
I did actually love tribe when I first came about being a Birgin.
I met tons of BM veteran's from Reno!
Hell, via this box of rocks and sticks...I met my hunny, Titwi!!!!
So yes, I guess it really comes down to a favorite toy thats broken, you still play with it because it offered up years and years of fun.
Understood.
I did actually love tribe when I first came about being a Birgin.
I met tons of BM veteran's from Reno!
Hell, via this box of rocks and sticks...I met my hunny, Titwi!!!!
So yes, I guess it really comes down to a favorite toy thats broken, you still play with it because it offered up years and years of fun.
Understood.
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^Rhino! wrote:
Mark Pincus is an evil piece of tech debris who has no place in the system.
You think so? I'm not so sure. Did you hear him being interviewed by Da Bomb? I thought that he sounded more out of it than evil, like he really meant well but just didn't have a clue.
Wish I could give you the url for the webcast, but I can't seem to find it.