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<atom:link href="http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/facebook-siege-grow/239002/#comments" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><title><![CDATA[Comments on: Facebook Under Siege: Will It Ever Grow Up?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite Facebook's Harvard-dorm-room roots, the company's M.O. is more stubbornly childish than post-collegiate.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[From the moment FB got momentum, they&#039;ve institutionalized their aggressive push-forward-two-steps, get-pushed-back-one-step business strategy. Until someone can&#039;t take it, they won&#039;t stop. That includes not only their members, but business partners and even countries. As long as they have a crazy-big membership (alas, growth in the U.S. is stagnant, though booming elsewhere), and there are precious little alternatives for people to move their years of postings, they will maintain leverage.

I quit using FB a few years ago. More of my colleagues are doing the same. Turns out quitting wasn&#039;t the end of the world.

Still, the alternatives are few, though Google+ *seems* less insidious, if only because they are relatively more transparent and don&#039;t spastically change the rules whenever it suits them.

Suckthebird is a forever-young CEO, regardless of his age. If that company expects to maintain its presence, they need to stick him in a harmless role. What he&#039;ll never realize is if FB was, well, nicer, they could have anything they wanted - without the histrionics, and without the inevitable fallout.

Just say no.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:55 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Would those of you who called me a &quot;hater&quot; of Facebook for the past few years kindly resurface.

I said it it 2009 that any corporation that utilizes Facebook should have their head examined. Facebook&#039;s terms of service are a &quot;living document&quot;, and are subject to changes at anytime...how any general council in a company would allow one of their product or brands to be subjected to such a defenseless agreement ASTOUNDS ME.

Then came Instagram, and every body thought that if they didn&#039;t have representation on Instagram...that they would be construed as being social media mastodons.

Wake up!

Run your own brand. Manage your own clientele. To this day I have yet to see clients bank account receive &quot;Facebook likes&quot; or number of Tweets as income.

Facebook--at best---is a methodology; not a tool.

Read the terms and conditions and bang that against Webster&#039;s definition of a tool. At any point in time Facebook can change your hammer into a cycle...two &quot;tools that are awfully symbolic of the &quot;Tool&quot; that created Facebook and the lemmings which are lead by it&#039;s new era Lennin at the helm.

Incidentally, Google and Apple as well as many others run the Irish accounting scam and have been for years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook is not alone in billing through Ireland. I&#039;m in Australia but I am billed for Adwords through Google Ireland, Dublin.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13 EST</pubDate>
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