Re:Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb
by dcosson on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:37AM
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Maybe I'd buy this if you used Google+ as an example instead. As far as I'm concerned I get many times more spam on Facebook than through email - only once every few months does a message from a Nigerian prince slip through gmail's spam filter, but multiple times a week I get a FB message that someone I vaguely knew 3 years ago lost their phone and needs numbers, is having a party thousands of miles away, etc.
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Re:Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb
by tedunangst on Friday July 29, 2011 @01:05PM
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That's your own damn fault for telling Facebook you trust that person. Manage your friend list and the problem disappears entirely.
Yes because trust is an all or nothing thing in the real world.
Facebook encourages its users to add lots and lots of friends to your main friend pool, and always has. It's spent most of its existence trying to get lots of users and build a huge social graph. Having hundreds upon hundreds of "friends" is the norm, not the exception - there's no emphasis on keeping your set of facebook friends small and tight-nit.