So, there is this new browser called RockMelt that just came out a week or so ago and I just got my invite and installed it. It aims at better integration of social networking and seems to do a pretty good job of it.
It's currently invite only, but you can get one by syncing your facebook to the site and waiting, or you can get one from someone who has invites. I have 3 to share so if you would like one PM me your facebook and I'll kick it over to you.
As for looks, it looks A LOT like chrome and works almost totally the same. Which I like. It seems to be lighter on the memory as well. It integrates facebook chat on a left side bar and social networking streams/rss on a right hand bar.
Oh you have to have a facebook account to use it btw
ugh I know I just HATE having convenient access to my friends and family.
It's just awful, being able to communicate with them and seeing how they are doing and also share photos and videos with them.
All while having my privacy hole reamed out because I just had to know that Uncle Buck saw a funny video of a kitty and Billy broke up with Sarah or whatever it is you people do on there now
Seriously though, if I want to know what's going on with my friends and/or family... I ask. Shoot over an email or a phone call.
I might actually have to try this one, considering how I have Facebook in an open tab at all times anyway.
i like the idea of it, anyway. i enjoy facebook but not really enough to give it a tab. if it was running on the side where i could just sort of glance at it, that might be nice on occasion.
You know you have all kinds of control over what information you put on there right?
edit: I'd even go so far as to say, you have complete control over that.
I had Facebook. I shitcanned it after the umpteenth time of them introducing a new feature without asking me what I wanted to do with it, having privacy setting tuned to "tell everyone everything ever".
And my, my! Look what they've introduced today! Yet another new feature that's sure to make user privacy the absolute highest priority.
That and I inherently have a problem with just handing over my granular demographic information to someone in the first place, let alone a dubious company doing questionable things with the data they're mining. I barely had any information on there and it was uncomfortable for a long time before I stepped away.
anti-Facebook people just make me laugh and laugh and laaaauuuggghhh
It's like the people that complain about computers and how we need to go back to the old days.
When I want to communicate with my family and friends I do it with an Aldis Lamp, and if they aren't there to see it, well tough tits
Yes because these are totally the same thing
God forbid I communicate on my terms and not someone else's
It's one thing for you to not partake. It's something wholly other for you to talk about how it's being shoved up your ass in a thread dedicated to a browser which is relying heavily on it as a feature.
what the hell data do you even need to protect from mining?
This is the fucking problem
Who you are: your name, your friends, your interests, your activities... these are precious bits of information. They are some of the very few things in this world purely created by and controlled by you. By giving out that information to anyone -- Facebook, your mom, your friend etc. -- you're letting someone in at that precious bit of information because you're saying "hey, I trust you with this thing".
I simply do not trust Facebook, Google et. al with that kind of information because 1) I'm not 100% on what they're doing with it and 2) in instances where I know what they're doing with it, I don't care for it. I loathe the idea of targeted advertising in general, which is the cash cow for these companies as they're basically selling blocks of advertisement against groups of people.
Somewhere along the way of the last decade or so, this fact seems to have been completely forgotten. I used to be just like you, wondering aloud why anyone wouldn't want to be on Facebook. At 24 I feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn.
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also I don't have facebook
I guess this product just isn't for me!
But I am intrigued
Hang on, I'll grab my ankles real quick
Why would I want to integrate it into my browsing experience
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ugh I know I just HATE having convenient access to my friends and family.
It's just awful, being able to communicate with them and seeing how they are doing and also share photos and videos with them.
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All while having my privacy hole reamed out because I just had to know that Uncle Buck saw a funny video of a kitty and Billy broke up with Sarah or whatever it is you people do on there now
Seriously though, if I want to know what's going on with my friends and/or family... I ask. Shoot over an email or a phone call.
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edit: I'd even go so far as to say, you have complete control over that.
like lots of networking tools, how many people use it ultimately becomes more important than whether something is better
On the black screen
edit: Also AIM and facebook are far from mutually exclusive
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Very
And this is coming from somebody who would've sworn never to touch the damn thing about three years ago.
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Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
i like the idea of it, anyway. i enjoy facebook but not really enough to give it a tab. if it was running on the side where i could just sort of glance at it, that might be nice on occasion.
On the black screen
I had Facebook. I shitcanned it after the umpteenth time of them introducing a new feature without asking me what I wanted to do with it, having privacy setting tuned to "tell everyone everything ever".
And my, my! Look what they've introduced today! Yet another new feature that's sure to make user privacy the absolute highest priority.
That and I inherently have a problem with just handing over my granular demographic information to someone in the first place, let alone a dubious company doing questionable things with the data they're mining. I barely had any information on there and it was uncomfortable for a long time before I stepped away.
So basically Chrome with a social network extension from the stuff I'm reading
Seriously?
You're worried about data mining and you're using the GOOGLE browser?
You seriously just gave me a headache. I am not even kidding.
Who the fuck said I was using Chrome?
I simply said that RockMelt appears to be Chrome with some shit slapped onto it and PRESTO people think it's awesome
It's like the people that complain about computers and how we need to go back to the old days.
When I want to communicate with my family and friends I do it with an Aldis Lamp, and if they aren't there to see it, well tough tits
Yes because these are totally the same thing
God forbid I communicate on my terms and not someone else's
what the hell data do you even need to protect from mining?
B.. but his/her precious demographics!
They're gonna find out s/he is a (race) (gender)
It's one thing for you to not partake. It's something wholly other for you to talk about how it's being shoved up your ass in a thread dedicated to a browser which is relying heavily on it as a feature.
Do you see where I am coming from?
because their understandable social frustration fuels your unquenchable thirst for small scale misery?
is that it, yaya
is it!!
when I saw The Social Network I just guffawed at Mark Zuckerberg's inability to talk to people
shit was hysterical to me
all gigglin' like a Adam West Batman villain at bro's lack of social skills
This is the fucking problem
Who you are: your name, your friends, your interests, your activities... these are precious bits of information. They are some of the very few things in this world purely created by and controlled by you. By giving out that information to anyone -- Facebook, your mom, your friend etc. -- you're letting someone in at that precious bit of information because you're saying "hey, I trust you with this thing".
I simply do not trust Facebook, Google et. al with that kind of information because 1) I'm not 100% on what they're doing with it and 2) in instances where I know what they're doing with it, I don't care for it. I loathe the idea of targeted advertising in general, which is the cash cow for these companies as they're basically selling blocks of advertisement against groups of people.
Somewhere along the way of the last decade or so, this fact seems to have been completely forgotten. I used to be just like you, wondering aloud why anyone wouldn't want to be on Facebook. At 24 I feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn.
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Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
I use yahoos Ntranse mind-share brain browser
what's that old dude yelling about over there