i used to complain about facebook as much as anyone else. i got tired of it after it became clear that they will not change and that they view their users as little more than depersonalised content to be served up to their real customers - marketers and advertisers. i'm not interested in being fodder for online spammers (er, sorry... marketers) nor in serving up information about my friends to them either. since facebook's business model requires them to degrade its users and their relationships in order to make money off them it's clear they're never going to change.

i quit facebook yesterday.i think people who continue to bang on about how facebook's policies bug them out should realise that facebook will never change - it will only get worse and slummier. it's time to put up or shut up: just quit facebook and stop talking about it.

why are you whining? doesn't apple have a right to sell what it wants? isn't that the free market you say you want?

maybe you should grow a pair of balls and just suck it up.

i think this is great news for brightkite. i love using the service and am glad to see that there'll be more resources available to build it out. really well done guys!