Talk:Facebook

Facebook for Android(OS)

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"Google's Android OS does not as yet have an official Facebook application due to apparent disputes between the two companies."

This is no longer true as an official Facebook app has been released for the Android OS and has been fully functional since September 08, 2009. This app is comparable to the iPhone platform version as there are many similarity's between the two. Please make this correction as soon as possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.72.16.138 (talk • contribs) 04:58, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

 Not done. Please provide a reliable source. Tim Song (talk) 05:01, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't know about a source which can be found on the internet but from any android phone you can see it in the market. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.168.52 (talk) 00:36, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Here is the source. Could someone please change it now? http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=74769995908 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Linkmaster 6 (talk • contribs) 18:30, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

No, facebook is not an RS. Darrenhusted (talk) 00:07, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Group Hijacking

There has been several incidents last year where Facebooks groups been hijacked from lacking admin or created solely to be subverted at a later stage. These links are in Swedish but they are from wellestablished newssources in Sweden [1] [2] While the small number of people being affected by this might not warrent any editing of the main article at this point I'm pretty sure that if we see groups like this: [3] we will hear more on an international scale pretty fast. I just got the link viraled to me today (seems it happened very recently and not yet been moderated upon). If it's moderated away it's basicly a 180 000 member group formerly called "30 reasons a girl should call it a night" or something to that effect that been hijacked into "30 Reasons I Joined Al Qaida" with inflamatory missonstatement and filled with offensive postings. As long as the abuse of groups isn't a problem for Facebook as a whole I can't see any edits beeing warrented since the newspaper reports still only focuses on the singular incidents and not as a trend or problem for Facebook operations. (too much Original Research at this point). So why did I comment? Because I wanted more experienced editors too keep an eye on news flow in case this do become the problem I suspect it might become. --83.249.214.37 (talk) 12:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Misspelled word / Please fix

In the paragraph below, the word "filed" in the sentence "Jack Thompson filed a law suit" has been misspelled as "filled". Hopefully someone can address/fix this. Thanks!--Soundcomm (talk) 08:06, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Jack Thompson See also: Jack Thompson (activist)#Facebook_lawsuit On 29th of September 2009, Jack Thompson filled a law suit for $40 million against Facebook at U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He said that the social networking site had harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook users. He said that several groups caused him great harm and distress.[204]

All fixed. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! GlassCobra 19:32, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

There is a mistake in the opening line: ...ted and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Facebook is a private company but it is also a corporation. Therefore, it is not owned entirely by Facebook, but it is predominantly owned by investors. I suggest rewording the opening line to: Facebook is a global social networking website that operated by Facebook, Inc. and is privately held. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianstuckey (talk • contribs) 18:44, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Under "Privacy", there is a spelling mistake in the following sentence: "Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, had hundreds of personal photos and his events calander exposed in the transition." "Calander" should be spelled "calendar". Hopefully someone can fix this as well. Thanks! Snowysquirrels (talk) 04:26, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Is Facebook ready to become a featured article?

The following discussion is a debate of the proposed proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on a new section of the discussion page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result was no. Clearly there is no reason for it to become a featured article unless there is a peer review. Robert9673 (talk) 01:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I am proposing that Facebook be nominated for featured article. Robert9673 (talk) 05:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Survey

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Discussion

Any additional comments:

• It's been more than a year since it was last assessed. A WP:Peer review might be advisable before going for a FAC. --Cybercobra (talk) 05:51, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

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No mention of the upcoming facebook movie, The Social Network?

Why isn't this mentioned?24.190.34.219 (talk) 14:39, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Facebook joins with XBox live

Is wiki going to post that effective some time in November that Facebook will be a new application on xbox live? I signed up for the early release on www.msn.com/xboxliveupdate and its pretty sweet. if you dont believe me heres the link http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/features/facebook.htm Jonathanmbarnes (talk) 04:25, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

No, 'cause it's not notable. Darrenhusted (talk) 00:08, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Child Safety

Are profiles of people under 18 private even if they're in the same network as you? I know kids' profiles are private by default on MySpace (if their age is set to 13-17). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.172.232.7 (talk) 11:47, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Why is not the CIA connection mentioned on wikipedia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G_gPhU For me it was instinctivley obvious. /MrPerfect72 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.53.162.34 (talk) 07:08, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Add this law review article about social networking and employment privacy

Donald Carrington Davis, "MySpace Isn't Your Space: Expanding the Fair Credit Reporting Act to Ensure Accountability and Fairness in Employer Searches of Online Social Networking Services", 16 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 237 (2007).

The URL to link directly to the law review's online PDF of this article is http://www.law.ku.edu/publications/journal/pdf/v16n2/davis.pdf

Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dcdavis2 (talk • contribs) 20:35, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

No, I don't think we will, Mr Davis. Darrenhusted (talk) 12:21, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

See also section

I do not feel that the Konami Code is an important enough part of Facebook to warrant being given special mention in the see also section. The only relation Facebook has to this code is that it is usable to add a temporary lens flare effect, the site is not designed around the code, nor is understanding of the code essential to better understanding of Facebook 128.54.244.125 (talk) 05:44, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Konami Code?

Maybe I missed something, but why is Konami Code in the See Also section? --70.103.74.8 (talk) 17:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

You can actually access a hidden page on Facebook by entering the Konami Code. At one point the Konami Code article referenced this. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Lamebook?

What makes Lamebook so special that it deserves a place in the article? There are PLENTY of other similar websites with similar style and content. If there is no proper justification, then DOWN it goes. 121.7.241.218 (talk) 10:03, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

would like to submit a new link to facebook about their similiarities with peopls string, a new social media website that pays 70%of its avertising revenue back to its members and why facebooks day may be numbered —Preceding unsigned comment added by Justincha (talk • contribs) 16:06, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Facebook Statistics

This is just to invite attention to the page Facebook statistics just created; of all interested editors. I have just placed a mergeto tag in it. Thanks. Arjun#talk 17:53, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

No, I don't think it should, as the numbers will change on quite a regular basis (if you look at the trend, its going up like 5 - 15% per month. So someone has to update it regularly, and since the Facebook article is closed, I can't see that happening there. Jan Jan.rezab (talk) 00:26, 28 December 2009 (CET)

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If you will notice, this is the English Wikipedia. Irish Techno Zombie (talk) 01:23, 8 January 2010 (UTC)