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LeftinOH

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3. Facebook is fine for people who don't need by-the-minute status updates

Reply to JohnyCanuck (Original post)

Fri May 18, 2012, 01:54 PM

May 2012

and running commentary on every. damn. thing. As an "electronic address book", it may be settling into its niche. They could get rid of that stupid & confusing Timeline, though.

Some of us don't see the need for immediacy on social media.

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Facebook being abandoned by its core market. You'd be better off investing in Greek government bonds [View all] JohnyCanuck May 2012 OP

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They will use the IPO money to buy or crush rivals KurtNYC May 2012 #2

Facebook is fine for people who don't need by-the-minute status updates LeftinOH May 2012 #3

To me, the timelime seems like a CJCRANE May 2012 #6

Are we looking at another tech bubble..? kentuck May 2012 #4

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