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Facebook to Become the Web’s White Pages

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Last night Facebook opened up a new feature that allows individuals (and search engines) to publicly search Facebook users. This is an interesting step by Facebook. While you already had a publicly available profile, users now have the ability to see if you are on the site even if they are ... Continue reading »

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  • chrisod

    1 year ago

    The Facebook public listing will show your name and picture. That's it, for now anyway. I would venture to guess that the vast majority of readers here (and at gigaom.com) already release far more than that to the world via blogs anyway.

    This is all much ado about nothing, IMO.

    I think the real issue here is that Facebook has totally blown the illusion of exclusivity that they had with the site. It was mortally wounded when they opened up the site to the world, and now it's six feet under with the announcement that they are in essence actively seeking search engine traffic. It's just another people aggregation site now, though one with a lot of good features.

    Of course, good features can be replicated and improved upon by somebody new...
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  • Lee Aase

    1 year ago

    Concerns are way overblown. I think it will actually fuel faster growth in Facebook as people run across listings in Google, but can't contact the person without signing up for an account. If Facebook is growing by 1.2 million people a week now, it will be 1.7 million a week by October 15.
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