Facebook blocks porn, but allows decapitation videos.

[njligernj]

FB i think has ran its course. it will go out to rot like MySpace and ICQ.

MySpace is still ranked 221st by Alexa US -- almost every website in the entire world would like to be "rotting" like MySpace in terms of unique visitors. It sold for $35 million or so in 2011 which was a massive loss for Fox ... but still ... I'd love to have a website someone thinks is worth $35 million. AOL is in the same boat -- the punchline to everyone's "look how this one-time internet phenomenon is now a massive embarrassing failure" jokes. AOL makes over $2 billion in revenue a year (that's half what Facebook makes ... sure half is less but the fact Facebook can only manage to book double the revenue of a relative dinosaur like AOL is pretty sad).

Facebook has always been useless and it hasn't been cool for years now. My mum signed up three years ago and my grandma two years ago (and she's dead!). It's done ... but it will be attracting mind-boggling amounts of traffic for years and years after all the snidey people on the internet declare it "dead" and it will make more money after the peak than it did during its peak.

I saw a video of two men being chain sawed up. Probably the most horrific thing I've ever seen- that was in Facebook today.

Some knobed on my facebook posted a video of people being burnt alive in africa for being witches. Of course morbid curiosity got the best of me. Utterly horrendous.

Reasons # 3,008 and 3,009 why I don't go on Facebook. But we watched Faces of Death on VHS when we were kids ... same stuff different medium.

 

[njligernj]

Hollywood, mainstream telly and video games are also guilty of thinking showing extreme violence is less harmful to watching adolescents than sex scenes.

In fairness they don't think that at at all. Most producers are well aware and not happy with the double standard. It's the ratings boards which are the problem. Both sex and violence sell ... but sex gets you an R in the US while violence is PG-13. More people can see a PG-13 so they follow the money.

 

[dholliday]

Wow. If this Tom Anderson guy ever gets depressed, he'll deserve no sympathy (which contra-highlights what we're discussing on the Ronnie O'Sullivan thread a little).

Celebrities and rich people might have many advantages over common folk, but one disadvantage is the lack of sympathy they get when they're down. Common people assume that because they're loaded/famous, that they should get over it easier than they would.

Depression as a disease is still a very unknown thing...but it's identifiable and seems to affect anyone.

 

[dholliday]

In fairness they don't think that at at all. Most producers are well aware and not happy with the double standard. It's the ratings boards which are the problem. Both sex and violence sell ... but sex gets you an R in the US while violence is PG-13. More people can see a PG-13 so they follow the money.

Shouldn't this be a political issue? If the people via the media can make politicians aware that this is now becoming vote-relevant, maybe things will change.

Or is that social idealism?

 

[Housequake]

Allow it all, it'd certainly make Facebook more bloody interesting...all it seems to be nowadays is viral photo's clearly sourced from Coventry or Nottingham about red & white poppies.

 

[Brennan]

Wow. If this Tom Anderson guy ever gets depressed, he'll deserve no sympathy (which contra-highlights what we're discussing on the Ronnie O'Sullivan thread a little).

TBH mate, what that Tom said is fair enough. I hate these people on places like Twitter that send snide comments and abuse to well known people because they're behind a keyboard.

 

[canuckblue]

Either way, someone's getting head.