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Nudge, nudge! Facebook wants to be your homepage
I'm surprised it took Facebook this long to implement such measures! A quick Google search shows it used to offer the set-homepage feature for a brief period in 2008, but since then it's been quiet. With Facebook's recent shift towards becoming all personal and chummy and OMNIPRESENT, it does seem apt that its now doing the digital equivalent of leaving its toothbrush in your bathroom. It'll be asking for a drawer soon... and then some hangers in your wardrobe...
Incidentally, do people even use homepages any more? Using Chrome the button doesn't even seem to do anything!
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Subscribe to commentsUK31337May 5th 2010 9:27AM
So, so glad I deleted my FB account. Looks like it's crossing the line and getting out of control, yet again.
r3loadedMay 5th 2010 9:49AM
How is asking to set your homepage to Facebook crossing the line? iGoogle and other sites also ask as well. In this case, it doesn't even appear to work in Chrome.
DrakkenfyreMay 5th 2010 10:10AM
I think it's the fact combined with everything else that makes it going over.
Martin-TMay 5th 2010 10:28AM
"do people even use homepages any more?"
I keep the firefox default page and google from there. (I don't keep the search box open in the toolbar). I like Firefox and figure it's my way of paying back, a little at a time.
Sebastian AnthonyMay 5th 2010 10:33AM
Fair point, noble sir!
UK31337May 5th 2010 11:19AM
Oh, and now this:
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/05/05/video-major-facebook-security-hole-lets-you-view-your-friends-live-chats/
I despair for all the poor idiots still using it. Facebook was always having timeouts and AJAX errors when I was last on it, images not loading, stuff you've deleted re-appearing overnight etc.
The code behind it is obviously totally broken in a pretty big way, especially if this new exploit is anything to go by.
Sebastian AnthonyMay 5th 2010 1:16PM
Ya, just as I tried to recreate it, their chat system went down for maintenance :)
An insane exploit, if it really existed.
Saint SeminoleMay 5th 2010 11:53AM
Sadly, sites only do this because so many users don't know they can set their own home pages to whatever they want. And half the people who click that button don't even know what "home page" means.
I was on FB for a little while, until I realized it's just a mini-internet with less usefulness than the actual internet. Everything that can be done on FB can be done easier, better, and faster by using the actual internet, and without limiting oneself to a single site.
gidleysMay 6th 2010 11:00AM
Tell us how! I'd jump from facebook in a flash if there was another way to keep occasional contact with distant acquantances without having to, you know, actually call them or anything, cos that's where I fall down.
ANYTHING that lets me do that without selling my soul to fb would be snapped up eagerly.
BethMay 5th 2010 1:08PM
I have an igoogle homepage. It shows me the weather, daily quotes, and some family photos when I start it up in the morning. I don't use it much, no, but I like waking up to it.
Sebastian AnthonyMay 5th 2010 1:14PM
More than you like waking up to the narcissistic status updates of all your friends and loved ones?!
Bryan PriceMay 5th 2010 3:26PM
They can take my current home page away from me when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers.
fjpoblamMay 5th 2010 5:31PM
I'm glad I "opted out" of FB a week and a half ago. I'm still getting prompted for FB links here and there over the web, even though I tried to delete them all.
FB has deep tendrils and buries itself into ones web connections like AOL and Norton bury themselves into a Windows system. FB is a LEECH. The last thing one would want to do is make it a "home page".
mathesonclaudiaMay 21st 2010 5:30PM
I would like to know why every freakin time I try to access facebook, I seem to need to change my password. If I get a message stating webpage has expired, it needs to be downloaded again, what do I do?