Glad I bailed when I did.

In before the "People still actually use Facebook? Not me." crowd.

I hate to be one of "those guys" but I am pretty over facebook.

Facebook is the new myspace, which was the new geocities. Someone could make a fortune making the next one.

It can't be any worse than the other crap they do to screw up post sequencing.

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what is this, like the 11th facebook thread in two days??

for a group that claims to never use it, sure is a lot of interest in it.

Car_Ramrod: If you have people on Facebook that annoy you, defriend or block them. It's that easy.

You're assuming you will be given the option.

People still actually use Facebook? Not me.

Well, I think this is it.

I'm just making a new photobucket for family photos, and sending out notifications to my mother and father and friends when I post new stuff.

Or maybe I'll actually use my Google+

Just send me five bucks a week and I'll read your posts. I promise!

Gosh all these annoying free programs I use are insufferable!

As soon as they introduced the "top stories" layout, I knew that was coming.

But this won't be something where you or I will pay to highlight our stories. This is something where, say, Panera or Starbucks will pay to move their postings to the top for better positioning. Hell, give them a few months and pay-per-click stories will probably make their way to the system.

I know over the last couple days I've noticed a friendly little "trending stories" block as my top story, both on my desktop and on the Android app. I'd prefer a way to make the whole thing go away - I'm not subscribed to Yahoo, WSJ or anything that would push articles right to Facebook - but it's not that hard to mark "don't show stories from X."

Gotta monetize the system as part of a corporate growth strategy, after all.

/still happily using FB
//not one of the "that's why I don't use FB" people

FloydA: Great! This will make it easy to figure out who to un-friend.

That, and the entertainment value of watching people waste money on this will be priceless.

Fortunately, it is easy to put someone on "ignore". It's bad enough some people have to post every bowel movement on FB and twitter, but to put it in boldface is too much.

So now when I need a rusty nail or a wooden board on Farmville I can make that request STAND OUT even more!?? Wooooo Hoooooo worth every penny!!

I farking hate the Orwellian nightmare facedblog has become. I haven't added any friends in a while and when I tried to the other day they FORCED me to put the friend in a category so they would know my relationship with that person. WTF. So I made a new bullshiat category to put all the new friends in.

If women didn't love this shiat it would have died already.

Any of my friends try that shiat on me and they're not going to be on my friends list very long.

but Tumblr users are no where near as obnoxious as Facebook users. God help us all.

tumblr is up in the same tier of terrible with facebook, twitter, reddit, and 9gag.

Gosling: Any of my friends try that shiat on me and they're not going to be on my friends list very long.

HEY BUDDY!! JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I'LL BE EATING A SAMMICH IN FIVE MINUTES. MY LIFE IS SOOOO INTERESTING!!! LIKE ME LIKE ME LIKE ME!!!

Well, at long last, it is going to cost money to be an AW. I'm okay with this and so glad I don't even have a Farcebook account.

Google+ has a similar service -- $1.50 per post. I've made six bucks this week.

Been done before. Another website used to auction off be admin for the day so you could greenlight all your own submissions.

Fewer " My religious beliefs are so important that I have to post them" posts? Sign me up!!

Funny, the last time a bunch of people started saying Facebook was going to charge somewhere. I started paying out the ass per month.

Oh wait, that's just because I eat mexican occasionally. My money stays where it is.

FloydA: Great! This will make it easy to figure out who to un-friend.

I was thinking the same thing.

The sad thing is, a lot of people will actually pay Facebook to be even more of an attention whore.

/Just shakes head...

Who uses the news feed though? I just change it to recent posts and read it all in the order they were posted. The news feed sucks.

FloydA: Great! This will make it easy to figure out who to un-friend.

Only assuming that the feature actually lets you know they paid for it as opposed to more of their posts just showing up in your news feed.

Total*Facebook

FloydA: Great! This will make it easy to figure out who to un-friend.

There's an echo in here.

Car_Ramrod: lewismarktwo: I farking hate the Orwellian nightmare facedblog has become. I haven't added any friends in a while and when I tried to the other day they FORCED me to put the friend in a category so they would know my relationship with that person. WTF. So I made a new bullshiat category to put all the new friends in.

If women didn't love this shiat it would have died already.

WTF are you talking about? Facebook doesn't do that. Are you thinking of Google+? If so, congrats on being one of 15 people on Google+.

When's the last time you added a friend?

Car_Ramrod: If you have people on Facebook that annoy you, defriend or block them. It's that easy.

I thought they tended to be on Myspace?