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   Steve, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 11:14am

   
   

   Tech folks

   Given that the attention span of the average techie these days is about one wee...ohhh...loook....a router...

    

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   Jezsik, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 11:36am

   
   

   Re: Tech folks

   Thanks for the laugh ... I needed that!

    

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   Cowards -R- Us, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 11:37am

   
   

   Re: Tech folks

   wow.. um, so distracted are you that you cannot even make a point. If you are that distracted, how could you even find the submit button?

    

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   A different Stephen, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 11:49am

   
   

   Re: Re: Tech folks

   Geez, thanks for killing that one

    

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   silentrite, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 11:53am

   
   

   hm...

   Not a bad idea, since a lot of the people at my office are on MySpace. At least facebook is a little more professional.

    

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   CJ, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 12:05pm

   
   

   wow.. um, so distracted are you that you cannot even make a point. If you are that distracted, how could you even find the submit button?

   
   
   looks like you need your joke-o-meter recalibrated.

    

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   some dude, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 12:06pm

   
   

   Re: hm...

   more professional? i didn't realize attention whoring was a professional business

    

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   Hairball, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 12:08pm

   
   

   bad idea

   IMO this is not a good move for facebook. Facebook is known for being the college and soon-to-be college student's social networking site. I don't see how expanding to 'select corporations' will help their cause. If i'm going to flirt with a colleague, i'll walk to her cubicle (office if she's really hot) and ask her to dinner or something. I can only imagine the sort of trouble someone will get in with their company by posting something stupid. Like that ever happens, right?
   
   And another thing... who decides who these select corporations are?

    

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   chris (profile), Apr 27th, 2006 @ 12:17pm

   
   

   re: hm..

   "i didn't realize attention whoring was a professional business"
   
   try working with developers sometime. not only is it a business, appearantly it pays well too.

    

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    Sean, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 12:18pm

    
    

    Select companies

    The 'Select Companies' is probably like
    
    What company do you work for? (Insert your company here)
    
    Yeah that is one of them.

     

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    Jeff, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 12:45pm

    
    

    Re: Select Companies

    Hum, so I can flirt online with my two collegues?.... Don't think it is for my company.

     

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    tk., Apr 27th, 2006 @ 1:07pm

    
    

    uhh

    Sweet, another potential URL to add to the company's block list.
    
    I'll buy facebook for a $2B buy in. Then I'd dismantle every little piece of it, because it's becoming so stupid that no one needs to be exposed to it.

     

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    Another baseless comment, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 2:24pm

    
    

    Re: Select companies

    If you had used Facebook then you would know that you must have a valid email address at the institution that you are supposed to be invloved with. I had to use my student id to regisiter (not my social)...so that leads me to believe that they have some type of agreement with the universities...and I'm sure that businesses would want an even larger level of assurance that someone is infact an employee.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 6:41pm

    
    

    Re: Re: hm...

    whoring is one of the world's oldest professional businesses

     

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    Dan, Apr 27th, 2006 @ 10:00pm

    
    

    how long till thefacebook gets blamed for someone getting fired a la myspace? i give it 6 months. bets anyone?

     

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    Doug Sherrets, Apr 28th, 2006 @ 10:15am

    
    

    My analysis of facebook adding companies from Augu

    Hi,
    
    I wrote about this on August 31, 2005. Check out the article: http://www.minorityrapport.com/2005/08/facebook_for_al.html
    
    I wrote a new post yesterday: http://www.minorityrapport.com/2006/04/fun_it_actually.html
    
    It will be interesting to see the adoption curve at companies.
    
    Doug

     

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    Judah Wilson, CEO Top20Network.com, Apr 30th, 2006 @ 10:54am

    
    

    Doug, you were right, and here is why

    One word: Branding. The reason it will not work in the corporate world is becuase the branding for the site was solidified when they chose to go for high school students rather than businesses. The first wave of seniors that graduated after Facebook became popular (May of last year) was the market Facebook had to get. Facebook was hot, and a large portion of their users were heading to the corporate world. Facebook missed it, and as soon as privacy issues surfaced, the students that sparked the original movement (students at top 20 schools) stopped using the site. I predict that from here on student usage will steadily decline.

     

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    vrdjipi@mail.ru, Aug 3rd, 2006 @ 4:31am

    
    

    nd more. From website .

    ringtones free

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 3rd, 2006 @ 4:31am

    
    

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