Comments on: Facebook Disables Robert Scoble’s Account http://thomashawk.com/2008/01/facebook-disables-robert-scobles.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2008/01/facebook-disables-robert-scobles.html/comment-page-1#comment-4182 Anonymous Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=737#comment-4182 Here is the Link to a useful CSV Facebook export app. The only bad part of the app that I can tell is that it doesn't export AIM user names.<br /><br />http://apps.facebook.com/friendcsv/ Here is the Link to a useful CSV Facebook export app. The only bad part of the app that I can tell is that it doesn’t export AIM user names.

http://apps.facebook.com/friendcsv/

]]> By: monaxle http://thomashawk.com/2008/01/facebook-disables-robert-scobles.html/comment-page-1#comment-4183 monaxle Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=737#comment-4183 So your friend got pulled up on suspicion of breaking an agreement he freely entered into. The account was suspended pending his response to the charge. If he was breaking the TOS then he has been given the chance to make amends. If not then he can explain the activity and everything is rosy. Seems to me that Facebook are being entirely reasonable. <br /><br />TOS are not forced on anyone. If they don't match what is wanted then don't use the service. If you use the service anyway and break the TOS it's a bit rich to whine about it if you get pulled up. Is Robert whining? I don't read his blog. So your friend got pulled up on suspicion of breaking an agreement he freely entered into. The account was suspended pending his response to the charge. If he was breaking the TOS then he has been given the chance to make amends. If not then he can explain the activity and everything is rosy. Seems to me that Facebook are being entirely reasonable.

TOS are not forced on anyone. If they don’t match what is wanted then don’t use the service. If you use the service anyway and break the TOS it’s a bit rich to whine about it if you get pulled up. Is Robert whining? I don’t read his blog.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2008/01/facebook-disables-robert-scobles.html/comment-page-1#comment-4184 Anonymous Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:06:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=737#comment-4184 Maybe he should learn how to follow the rules. Scoble is not special and it's not like he was forced to use Facebook. Maybe he should learn how to follow the rules. Scoble is not special and it’s not like he was forced to use Facebook.

]]> By: Ulricu http://thomashawk.com/2008/01/facebook-disables-robert-scobles.html/comment-page-1#comment-4185 Ulricu Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=737#comment-4185 Those social networking sites and providers of any kind with all their TOS take away the freedom. I fight all this dictatorship by simply using my own server. A server is offered by so so many providers and offers maximum freedom. Those social networking sites and providers of any kind with all their TOS take away the freedom. I fight all this dictatorship by simply using my own server. A server is offered by so so many providers and offers maximum freedom.

]]> By: Shawn Oster http://thomashawk.com/2008/01/facebook-disables-robert-scobles.html/comment-page-1#comment-4186 Shawn Oster Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=737#comment-4186 I don't know any of the details as I stopped following Scoble quite awhile ago but Facebook does care about it's *users*, plural. A single account that's consuming a larger number of resources will more than likely impact a large number of other users. This would be the "good of the many" approach and I applaud it.<br /><br />Facebook also *does* allow users the portability of their data, just as long as you use their API, which works remarkably well and is heavily documented. If he was running an external scraping script then he's probably against the EULA and if he's running a real Facebook application then he needs to contact the vendor and let them know that their application sucks and that they need to fix it.<br /><br />The only real part here that could suck would be not giving Scoble any notice or chance to stop running his script. Other than that it's fairplay. I don’t know any of the details as I stopped following Scoble quite awhile ago but Facebook does care about it’s *users*, plural. A single account that’s consuming a larger number of resources will more than likely impact a large number of other users. This would be the “good of the many” approach and I applaud it.

Facebook also *does* allow users the portability of their data, just as long as you use their API, which works remarkably well and is heavily documented. If he was running an external scraping script then he’s probably against the EULA and if he’s running a real Facebook application then he needs to contact the vendor and let them know that their application sucks and that they need to fix it.

The only real part here that could suck would be not giving Scoble any notice or chance to stop running his script. Other than that it’s fairplay.

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