Comments on: Comic: Facebook Movie Quiz

By: Chuck 2

Chuck 2 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:37:59 +0000

cool facebook comic!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:51:54 +0000

Facebook has since implemented an option to ignore all requests, and I believe that they’re working on an option to block all requests. But for now, I think you can block an application from sending you any requests.

By: In-Your-Facebook

In-Your-Facebook — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:02:18 +0000

[...] trueâ€”I could opt out of Facebook entirely; I know of plenty of people who have, or are thinking about it. But Iâ€™m not quite ready to do that, because Iâ€™m not willing to have the ease [...]

By: Sophie

Sophie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:24:55 +0000

I have to agree with Samantha, I can’t help but feel Facebook is just a place to “collect” friends and get them to do their applications but they don’t actually participate in actual, proper conversation.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:10:33 +0000

I left facebook for a few reasons, and the constant “John wants you to do this quiz” or “Sarah wants you to join this group”… most social-networks are a waste of time at the end of the day.

By: Alex Zenden

Alex Zenden — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:32:00 +0000

[...]Facebook Movie Quiz [...] I have too left Facebook 3 weeks back, but on other reason

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:16:54 +0000

It’s funny how little the web has changed in some aspects. The amount of junk I get on Facebook from friends reminds me of the amount of junk chain mails I use to get from friends years ago. If you do something old in a new way, it’s all the rage.

By: muhabbet

muhabbet — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:45:05 +0000

This comic explains pretty much why i left Facebook a week ago

By: Max

Max — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:38:47 +0000

Re comment 1, Flixster is considerably more aggressive than other apps in pushing info about people’s ratings, quizzes, etc to other friends in its default settings. Even the zombie/superpoke/ninja stuff is more easily tweakable and ignorable.

I remember adding a very bookish/intellectual friend on Facebook, and the first correspondence I got from her was a breathlessly worded invite (courtesy of Flixster’s marketing department) to take a Dirty Dancing quiz. Turns out she just meant to take the quiz with a couple of friends as a joke, but it sent the invite to her entire friend list.

This of course underscores Facebook’s current strengths and weaknesses in a nutshell — it’s great you can customize settings and privacy on apps, but the settings are still applied across too broad a spectrum of one’s friend list. The ability to tweak the app settings so that you can have multiple “identities” — zombify your old college buddies on the one hand, simply share birthday info and calendars with co-workers on the other — is still very limited.

By: Bill H-D

Bill H-D — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:52:43 +0000

For additional irony points: the guy on the right should be dressed like a werewolf/zombie/pirate.

By: dMix

dMix — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:47:27 +0000

I feel like the only person who’s been using facebook since the early days when it was college only and does not actively use any applications.

Its the same reason I rarely visit youtube. Most of the content available is entertaining but serves zero value. Just like watching celebrity news.

I value my time.

By: Jeton

Jeton — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:08:10 +0000

This comic explains pretty much why i left Facebook a week ago.

Simply stupid.
If you want to take a movie quiz, go to a Cinema, and socialize there

By: Michael Camilleri

Michael Camilleri — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:08:34 +0000

I’m not sure who’s more at fault here: (1) Facebook for allowing Flixster to push this data out to you; (2) Flixster for pushing the data out to you; or (3) your friends for doing stupid quizzes in the first place.