What the Hell has Happened to HuffPo?

[Alex P Notkeaton]

First, it "merged" (read: was taken over by) AOL, and now it's being controlled by Facebook. Go to HP and try to make a comment on the site itself: In 90% of cases, you are confronted with Facebook Conversations rather than a simple "add a comment" that used to make HuffPo easy to access.

I hate Facebook, okay? I don't like Zuck the Fuck, or whatever token female (whose name I can't honestly recall at the moment) he has on the board to disguise the goddam sausage-fest going on there. We need to collectively stand up to this corporate "social" network and tell it where it can shove itself. Ironically, younger users are doing exactly that, steadily sending Facebook the way of MySpace. I strongly suggest that we follow their example!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Money money money money...

I imagine a lot of the non-troll types at HuffPo will be looking for new digs. I notice there's a new group over at Daily Kos set up by somebody who just left HuffPo and wants to still be able to have substantive convos, rather than simply commenting on preselected stories.

[Alex P Notkeaton]

6. Link?

I mean, to the specific DK member.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. Here's a link to the post.

It's on the front page of DK atm, on the 'recommended list'.

[Alex P Notkeaton]

10. Thanks!

[PasadenaTrudy]

13. Also

lots of Huffpost refugees on The Epoch Times site. Go to the forums.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Turning into a Right Wing Farce

just a platform for the turd busting Third Way DLCers.

[hlthe2b]

3. when they required you to have a facebook account to post comments, they lost the overwhelming

majority of commenters, who resented the loss of privacy/anonymity

I will never have a facebook account. Never.

[monmouth3]

4. I would love to delete mine but don't know how. I just had a libertarian cousin tell me my posts

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"offend" her...WTH? I told her to unfriend me. The ignorance from the Right on there is stunning....

[Warpy]

8. On what planet are libertarians "left?"

And, in case that was a typo, try http://justdelete.me/ It's not all that easy, but it can be done. Just follow the not so easy steps and you'll be rid of them.

[monmouth3]

12. It was a typo and my bad...They're all so RW they are twisted....n/t

[Warpy]

7. Facebook is a data mining company

and a quick look at their business model discouraged me from opening an account there, even as Minnie Mouse, just so I could post on HuffPost and other sites. It's just not worth the intrusive nature of the beast.

HuffPost isn't the only one who's been Farcebooked. However, considering how long most stuff on the net lasts, it's only a matter of time before somebody designs an even more efficient data mining system marketed as "free" to the suckers and Zuck the Fuck is left counting his billions on whatever Caribbean island he buys.

[alp227]

11. But at least the trolls/bigoted types won't get anoymity anymore! nt

[Alex P Notkeaton]

21. The only reason I have one is to get on HuffPo

Now it sits idle, as I've deleted my HP account in disgust. And I'm not the only one. When the "Facebook Conversations" crap came up, a community pundit over there up and quit, leaving 1,026 followers behind.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. I don't use Facebook anymore.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Most papers have gone that way, not just them

[MineralMan]

15. Rant on!

Rant off...

[MineralMan]

16. Ariana Huffington was a Republican when I met

her in California. Nothing much has changed. She's still a Republican and Huffington Post is an unreliable source. Why anyone goes there, I do not know.

[laundry_queen]

19. It's seriously the only site that freezes up my computer

I hate when people here post links to it. Every time I click, it takes a good minute to load OR it instantly freezes everything up. It doesn't seem to matter which browser either. My computer just plain hates it.

Anyway, I remember when she sold it - tons of people mentioned how it was going to totally change. And it has. And just like everyone said - not for the better. She doesn't care, she's laughing all the way to the bank.

[Alex P Notkeaton]

22. She married Peter Huffington

A man she knew was gay, just to get her foot in the door of American politics.

[NightWatcher]

17. 50% news and 50% celebrity nip slips. What's not to like?

There was an article about a women who spread her labia on the floor of a museum as performance art in front of an actual painting for similar female genitalia.

HuffPo is tittilating current events and that's about it.

[abakan]

18. This is what I sent when I quit huffpo

I do not have a Facebook account and I refuse to get one because I believe Facebook is dangerous. If I have to endanger my life to comment on your site, I will cease visiting your site completely.

It really has become tiresome with all your intrusions into the free expression of adults. So all you children can get hysterical about whatever the Kardashians, Miley Cyrus, and all the attention whores you promote, without me.

[kelliekat44]

20. I visit HP but I refuse to post there anymore since all comments are sent to one's FB account. nt