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Artiste212 
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Posted 08 June 2012 - 07:41 PM
I never heard of this until long after it was over, and I've used Facebook daily. It is clearly a rigged "election" that they hid from us. When they really want us to know something, they have no trouble telling us. But this? It is a way they can justify hurting their cutovers. Geez, they are evil.
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Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:45 PM
Here's a thought.. when your asking for input, make it visible, like those ads I see on my FB news feed, or those app requests outstanding, or under Create an Event, or Send me a Message, or (... are we getting the picture here?)
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 03:47 AM
JBucanek, on 08 June 2012 - 10:00 PM, said:
I'm with the other commenters. I check Facebook every day, and tend to keep up with several technical blogs and news sites. This is the first I've heard of this. I'm surprised they even got 0.1%.
I did hear about and went to look for it but wasn't able to find it. It certainly wasn't in their interest, that many people find it so they can claim nobody is interested in it.
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 07:13 AM
Add me to the list of people who had no idea an election was under way. Did Facebook forget about its own messaging system? Did it get filtered by its own spam filter? 
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 04:02 PM
I found out about the Facebook "referendum" from another news site on the web a few weeks before the vote. I even posted the link on my FB wall, but I see no evidence that any of my friends voted.
It's ridiculous for Facebook's spokesperson to claim the response was "disappointing." It's not disappointing at all. As pretty well everyone has commented so far, there was no prominent, upfront notice from Facebook about this issue.
Facebook knew that keeping the issue poorly publicized would result in exactly what they didn't want—a response large enough to make the vote binding. In blunter terms, Facebook conducted a stealth campaign; IT WAS RIGGED. Can't wait for those shares of FB to continue to plummet.
It's ridiculous for Facebook's spokesperson to claim the response was "disappointing." It's not disappointing at all. As pretty well everyone has commented so far, there was no prominent, upfront notice from Facebook about this issue.
Facebook knew that keeping the issue poorly publicized would result in exactly what they didn't want—a response large enough to make the vote binding. In blunter terms, Facebook conducted a stealth campaign; IT WAS RIGGED. Can't wait for those shares of FB to continue to plummet.
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 04:58 PM
I actually received an email from FB notifying me of the voting timeframe, but the link in the email went to an error page instead of anything actually related to the proposed privacy changes. So even when they did try to inform people, they failed to actually let them do anything.
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 07:21 PM
Facebook is chock full of very smart, very capable, very creative technical people. And yet they keep screwing up on privacy issues and defending themselves with totally laughable alibis. The only people who trust them are the ones who paid $40/share for their IPO.
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 04:10 AM
I'd have liked to have voted on this, but had no idea about it.
Not only do I use FB every day, I was even in my privacy settings just last week trying to get rid of Timeline Map (impossible). I sent feedback to FB too about it - no response from them. No mention anywhere in my privacy settings that a referendum was taking place, no email, message, or log in warning from FB like they put out for things that are mandated by law.
I use FB reluctantly because its a convenient way to keep in touch with certain people in my life; I don't like the way it's run or the liberties they take. There must be an answer to this.
Not only do I use FB every day, I was even in my privacy settings just last week trying to get rid of Timeline Map (impossible). I sent feedback to FB too about it - no response from them. No mention anywhere in my privacy settings that a referendum was taking place, no email, message, or log in warning from FB like they put out for things that are mandated by law.
I use FB reluctantly because its a convenient way to keep in touch with certain people in my life; I don't like the way it's run or the liberties they take. There must be an answer to this.
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 05:01 AM
paternostermonica, on 10 June 2012 - 04:10 AM, said:
I use FB reluctantly because its a convenient way to keep in touch with certain people in my life; I don't like the way it's run or the liberties they take. There must be an answer to this.
Since there is little or no infrastructure required for social network, a Facebook replacement can pop up at any moment to make Facebook be the next Myspace.
