Mark Zuckerberg kicks off Facebook's (FB -0.8%) event by introducing Graph Search, a tool that...

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sheeple2012 Comments (203)
 
this is like so awesome, I haven't signed up for Facebook yet but now I definitely will! According to Yahoo Finance, you can search for things like: "friends who like Harry Potter AND Star Wars" how cool is that!
15 Jan, 01:42 PM Reply Like

Machiavelli999 Comments (821)
 
This is probably the same response "serious" people like you had when the idea of Facebook first came out in 2003.
15 Jan, 06:43 PM Reply Like

JillKennedy Comments (52)
 
Facebook has a huge problem and no press conference or product announcement will fix it... Facebook has become irrelevant. Nothing but a data mine in which most people have become completely bored.

http://bit.ly/VWibpM
15 Jan, 01:45 PM Reply Like

johnofarizonaoregon Comments (218)
 
Wow, yet another excuse to waste time on Facebook.

I still have found no compelling reason to have one of the "F" (for Facebook) accounts.
15 Jan, 01:53 PM Reply Like

benitus Comments (784)
 
I'm glad to know that there's another person who refuses to sign up for FB, even though I'm peppered everyday by someone I know, who likes me on FB. I value my privacy above all else and I don't want to be addicted to wasting time on airing my dirty linen.
16 Jan, 06:58 AM Reply Like

johnofarizonaoregon Comments (218)
 
A few years ago I did sign up with FB. I won't bore you with the details, but after being deluged with friend requests and frequently having to adjust privacy controls to keep up with each change made by FB to decrease privacy, and swamped with more time-wasting posts etc than I could ever read... I joined the numbers of people who deleted their FB accounts on worldwide "delete your FB account day."

I chose that day and posted a notice to everyone, so none of my "friends" would think it was anything personal. The wonderful relief to be rid of it is still fresh in memory though it was years ago.
16 Jan, 01:30 PM Reply Like

manhduc Comments (2)
 
seems to me FACEBOOK used this event to introduce an advertising method
15 Jan, 02:59 PM Reply Like

Whitehawk Comments (2954)
 
Nothing new here; what every relational database can and does offer.
15 Jan, 03:21 PM Reply Like

marcinz Comments (34)
 
nice setup to make data more relevant for advertisement purposes......but the time they`re done they`ll be done :)

did anyone actually belived in the phone or a new a OS ? who`d be buying a FB phone (unless it was a partnership)
15 Jan, 03:31 PM Reply Like

Deja Vu Comments (627)
 
Essentially Facebook has released a search tool which allows you to add a few AND clauses. Next up, an OR clause...then to breathless excitement a NOT clause. Then to dizzying applause, some parameters.

It speaks volumes for the maturity level at FB HQ that they thought that this was worthy of a major press event. Each miscue like this damages their credibility a little more.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the upcoming earnings report is going to not be too good and this was an effort to prop up the stock price for employees and insiders to sell out prior to the earnings release.
15 Jan, 03:41 PM Reply Like

Valueplay98 Comments (476)
 
"It speaks volumes for the maturity level at FB HQ that they thought that this was worthy of a major press event. "

I was thinking the same thing.
15 Jan, 03:52 PM Reply Like

benitus Comments (784)
 
yes, this event is definitely a miscue. I'm equally suspicioius that their numbers are falling and earnings as well.
16 Jan, 07:01 AM Reply Like

johnofarizonaoregon Comments (218)
 
Yes, it's like if a child says, "look what I can do!" and then jumps rope for a few seconds.
16 Jan, 01:33 PM Reply Like

Donald Johnson Comments (392)
 
How many FB members have shared content? 10% of members? 30%?

This looks like it will be more interesting to folks with huge followings and active friends. How many people have more than 100 friends and more than 5 to 10 active ones?
15 Jan, 03:56 PM Reply Like

SoldHigh Comments (696)
 
Few FB users understand is that FB seems to be free because the THE PRODUCT BEING SOLD IS THE USER.

The currency is the user's privacy.
15 Jan, 09:16 PM Reply Like

gwynfryn Comments (1825)
 
So where's the money then?
16 Jan, 05:26 AM Reply Like

benitus Comments (784)
 
gwynfryn, the money, as usual, is in the ads they carry.
17 Jan, 11:59 AM Reply Like

gwynfryn Comments (1825)
 
But not for long ben, if there are too few buyers! Why should these work any better than the rest, which are not exactly setting the world on fire...
18 Jan, 10:50 AM Reply Like

benitus Comments (784)
 
gwyn, you may not have any idea how much they make from ads. If any advertiser drop out, they'll always have more to sign on, because they don't have enough space to carry all the ads. One of the biggest draws is that many vendors, especially the small-time and medium-sized vendors are using their FB pages to market their products, so the big-guys are tapping onto this advertising medium. Every click by anyone onto any FB page means more money in the bank for them. They get at least 10cts per click but some goes as high as 50cts. But gone are the days when advertisers are willing to shell out a buck a click. Still, it's a lot of dough even if it's a dime a click. FB should consider putting out videos on Youtube, which starts paying when you get more than 10,000 hits.
19 Jan, 10:26 AM Reply Like