[pilif]

right now it's the commenting system. Before that it was general backlash and before that it was the like-button-everywhere shitstorm that also spawned diaspora.

Don't worry. In at most one month's time nobody will remember this and Facebook will be awesome again.

Until it's time again to fish for pageviews at which point another flaming article will be published somewhere and everyone will repost it in their own words in order to get pageviews.

You can't expect consistency in a society with a cumulative attention span of about a week.

[squarepeg]

> Don't worry. In at most one month's time nobody will remember this and Facebook will be awesome again.

Facebook stopped being awesome a long time ago. I doubt it ever will be again. You're making it out to be a victim of some kind and it's not. If facebook didn't repeatedly abuse its users' trust and privacy, there'd be no backlash. There'd be no 'flaming' articles and no shitstorms.

> Until it's time again to fish for pageviews at which point another flaming article will be published somewhere and everyone will repost it in their own words in order to get pageviews.

Perhaps so, but the extension isn't a result of a flaming article. It has over 100,000 users and 4000+ weekly installs.

[pilif]

> You're making it out to be a victim of some kind and it's not.

I'm not. I'm just surprised about how quickly the opinions seem to change. I made up my mind once facebook was basically allowing third-party websites I accidentally visit to post stuff in my name ("like"-buttons) and decided to stop using facebook right then. No need to rationalize or post articles.

It's just amazing how the pendulum swung back and forth over the last two years between an overall positive mood and an overall negative one.

[pnathan]

Uh, no. I deleted my account almost a year ago and have no plans to reconstitute it. I am more than happy to block Facebook and any other, similar, digital tentacles of intrusions into privacy.