FaceSlammed by Bill Gates

Like batona said. Also, you are confusing quantity with quality, Robert. Being a Facebook friend does is not a value-added proposition unless the person has clout in an area you are active in.

Podesta: I disagree.

Anyone has influence now. The word-of-mouth network is hyper efficient.

And, anyway, I have quite a few pretty influential people on my list too Bill Gates’ FaceSlam notwithstanding.

So you have influential folks on your Facebook list. Why would you dangle content in front of your blog’s readers and then say you can’t have access to that content unless you follow me over at another venue?

re #48 No I don’t (expect everything for free) and I happily pay for services I feel offer value. I use some other “social” services but they allow viewing, to some degree, without requiring signup. I have no trouble with login-in to use but not log-in to view, other than for security/privacy reasons. Since Facebook is a social site privacy doesn’t seem a consideration.

After promoting, as you done brilliantly, “the blogosphere” for open & free exchange of information and it seems a step back to go to a service that doesn’t hold that model.

As for Facebook being free… Nothing is free. It demands my time (to set up & manage) and wants to control my information*. I value both.

* I’ve read it doesn’t allow contact export, I don’t know because I cant view it to evaluate…

re #48 “but who guaranteed that I’d work for you for free without ever asking something in return?”

If by :”work” you mean:

The blog: Is it work? Do you get paid to blog? I’d have thought the return you get is people reading, contributing rather than members in a private club.

The videos: I’d have thought you worked for compensation (Salary, stocks, whatever) to create value for your customers – being your employer, sponsors, advertisers and viewers. If not who & what are the videos for? What more do you expect in return?

Robin: i will answer you in a facebook video later today.

@48 “if that pisses you off, sorry, but who guaranteed that I’d work for you for free without ever asking something in return?”

What do YOU get from have random people “befriend” you on Facebook? Other than fulfilling your wierd psychotic need to tell the world how many more Facebook “friends” you have than everyone else?
You’re WSJ CNN example is moronic. Both parties benefit monetarily by subscribing. (the subscriber gets something for his money, the subscribee gets money). You do see the difference, right? If not, I can refer you to some basic Econ content on the net as background.

I don’t see how your paid content examples are anywhere close to being analogous to Facebook.

What to you lose by NOT posting your videos on Facebook? Other than not being able to say how many more Facebook “friends” you have.

LayZ: I’ll answer you in the same Facebook video. Thanks!

Scoble’s just one of the guys who doesn’t get Facebook, he adds friends that aren’t friends for ego drive.

Maybe he’s trying to build some sort of community, seems a weird of doing it. Whining about people not indiscriminately adding people they don’t know as “friends” is pretty funny.

But then, it’s Scoble, he’s famously open (publish cell phone, email address, etc). His brain is a massive filter that he wants to hook up feeds of information to so that he can… BE the zeigeist. He embodies it.

@61. Thanks, but I have my answer with this reply. It’s purely an ego thing on your part. Got it.

@54 “And, anyway, I have quite a few pretty influential people on my list too Bill Gates’ FaceSlam notwithstanding.”

Just can’t go a day without your insecurity showing, huh?

Heh! Yeah, I’m so insecure.

The video is up. But you’ll need to sign into Facebook to see it. Hope your ears are ringing.

You seem to take real glee in advertising that you’ve been faceslamming everyone when you’d invited people to add you just a few weeks ago. It really is a bit contrary, but I’m certain that makes you happy

Brandy: I haven’t “Faceslammed” anyone. I continue to add anyone who asks.

Mystery Afoot: The case of faceslamming via unknown technical facebook issue?

re#59; Where I won’t see it of course, why not post it publicly? I’ll host it if you like on an open site.

@66 Thanks for the invite, but I prefer to use Facebook for its primary intent.

Can I have back the 5 mins it took to read all this? Is this really what we have come to; obsessing over whether or not ‘Bill Gates’ added us to his friend list on some social site?

Sounds kinda similar to how I felt when you first joined Jaiku, and I reached out to offer help/a point of contact (like I do when anyone I recognise joins), and got completely ignored…

(I’m over it now… but, you know how it goes – at the time, it felt kinda rude).

Malach: sorry about that. I don’t know how I missed that. But I got a TON of inquiries back then.

As I said, I got over it – mostly ‘cos:

1) you’re too nice a guy to be deliberately rude (from what I’ve seen), and
2) if someone’s does something by accident that I find a bit rude, then there’s no point in being offended

There is no point being offended when you are face slammed by someone that you have never talked to, never met, or don’t ever talk to anymore but did way back when. Facebook isn’t like myspace, myspace is a place to friend strangers and it is totally acceptable. Facebook is a place to keep in touch with people you already know OR talk to people that go to the same school as you or are in the same class