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So, I just stumbled across a Facebook group that made me lol a little bit. It’s a group simply called ‘FUCK THE POLICE’ yup. That’s right. All capital letters. According the group profile, they are a “political organization.” One more LOL.

Here’s the description of the group they provided.

In the United States, us as American citizens have the right to express our opinion in many ways, however some ways are illegal more than others, we do have one thing they cannot take away from us and that is the 5th admendment, it is our right as U.S. citizens to express our opinion by freedom of speech, anything you read or write in this group is OPINION not fact, an example is (in my opinion all cops are possible child molestors) this group is to state your opinion, share bullshit stories, and to join together as a nation against the cops that are dumb fucks, dont get me wrong though not all cops are some are actually pretty cool if you get to know them, this group is for the police that think they are hardasses because the have a gun and a badge

In the United States, us as American citizens have the right to express our opinion in many ways, however some ways are illegal more than others

we do have one thing they cannot take away from us and that is the 5th admendment, it is our right as U.S. citizens to express our opinion by freedom of speech

So uh.. you do know that the fifth admendment refers to protections against self-incrimination,  establishment of Miranda rights, establishment of Eminent Domain and definition of double jeopardy. Now you just sound uneducated. I think he is referring to the first amendment… but I thought everyone knew that. Guess not. But I digress..

anything you read or write in this group is OPINION not fact, an example is (in my opinion all cops are possible child molestors)

Well golly gee, that first half sounds somewhat intellgient. However that second half there, yeah.. that’s just baseless and in bad taste. Stereotype much? The average Joe Shmoe has more of a chance of being a predator.. police officers have to go through detailed background checks.

To me, this very laughable. It looks like a bunch of future anarchist kids being resentful to those with authority simply because they have authority. Don’t get me wrong: Cops can be jerks. Some are abusive. Some definitely fit the in category of police brutality. But come on, ‘I think all cops might be child molesters.’ I’m calling Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on that one..

I do find it noteworthy (and very LOL-worthy) that the creator of the group has a profile picture of him chugging something. Probably beer. Oh yeah, his network… it’s a high school. We must have some big law abiding citizens here. Thanks for the laughs though, kids.

So, I’ve stumbled upon a trick to restore the old Facebook.

I’d like to remind everyone who does this that Facebook can just as easily restore everyone’s back to the new Facebook and remove this workaround. I don’t know how long this method will be working. Minutes? Hours? Days? Trust me, Facebook will catch on to it.

Regardless. First you need to add the Facebook developer application. Personally, I’ve had this application since day 1, so I could skip this step. Once you’ve done that, click this link to “opt out” of the new Facebook. You might have to refresh to see the change after you fixed it. You will be restored to the old facebook design. You will see the “Click here to see the new Facebook” bar again and be able to click it to go back to it.

Again, I don’t know how long this will be available for. So get it while it’s hot!

EDIT: Facebook fixed it. Sorry guys. Back to the new version.

Ah, yes. The Facebook redesign. it’s been out for quite some time now. Up until Friday I’ve had the option to still use the old Facebook, but my account has been since locked to the new Facebook. This is Facebooks attempt to push the new design so they no longer have to support and maintain the old design.

The feedback and response has been mixed but generally negative. Most people don’t like the new design. I’ll tell you why. Change. Yes, it’s something new. Humans are a creature of habit and routine. If this routine changes, their feeling of structure collapses. Also, another thing people don’t like is because it’s very buggy.

From a developer’s standpoint, I feel bad for the people on the product team. They have worked hard trying to excite and create a new Facebook for people to enjoy and in return they get ‘Anti-New Facebook Groups’ and really nasty feedback from spoiled brats. Take my word for it, a lot of work went into designing and programming this.

Now on the user standpoint. Aethestically, Facebook looks much better. Light colors, semi-transparency, rounded corners. It looks nice, but it’s like everything has changed location, so it will take some getting used to. But then again… remember the last Facebook changed? Yeah, everyone was doing the same thing with complaining. Now they are holding on so very dear to it.

The profile page. The most core component of Facebook. The wall, formerly a way of posting Comments between users, has been combined with the user’s news feed. This actually removes the clutter but also will cause confusion for people not used to the idea of combining the two components.  Profiles now have tabs which does remove the page-scrolling but increases the clicking. So it might be worse.

Remember some people who had like a thousand applications installed (I wish they wouldn’t)? Well, boxes generated by applications and such have been moved to the “boxes tab.” These tabs are kind of good. Let’s say you want to find someone’s screenname. Originally you’d have to scroll through all of their applications, wall posts, et cetera in order to get to it.  Now you just click “Info” and it’s quite easy to find

Facebook is a little buggy. The biggest one actually completely interferes with a task. On some profiles, I do not see a link to “View more pictures.” It simply isn’t there. It’s not that they don’t have any pictures, because they would If i were to be on the Facebook.. it’s just for some reason a link isn’t being rednered for them. I am sure Facebook will patch this and the other bugs and glitches soon.

A note to the New Facebook team. You’ve done a lot of work and a lot of people are ungrateful and unaccepting of the work you put out. It’ll just take some getting used to, that’s all. Keep up the good work.

I have a question. You have a Facebook account. You submit your information to it. You know, your name, birthday, religion, likes, dislikes, addresses, phone numbers, etc. So do all your relatives and friends. Who owns everyone’s information? According to Facebook, not you.

Let’s say that you want to use another social network. MySpace.com, myYearBook.com, whatever. Should you have the ability to export your data from facebook and move it to whatever social network you want? So all/most of your profile information is transferred? According to Facebook, nope. The information, or at least the representation of the information is property of Facebook because you willingly submitted it to them.

Using an automated script to pull your data out and save it in a certain format to be imported to another service is a clear violation of the Terms of Service. It’s easily detectable. Unless you have a software package that adds a random delay between each page (to simulate “you reading it”), Facebook will detect that pages are being requested faster than a human could actually process the page information over a short period of time.

The same thing happened to Mr. Scoble. His account got disabled. I can see why Facebook does this from a proprietor standpoint, but why is everything always about the business and never about customer convenience?

Let’s say that you want to import all your friends’ email addresses and phone numbers to outlook or something of that nature. This is simply so you can easily contact your friends.  Let’s say that you use a laptop and you travel to a wireless network (work/school?) where facebook might be blocked. But you need Paul’s email address to email him something for class. Oh no. Facebook is blocked. Facebook, by way of policy prohibits you from assembling external lists like this. This will also get you banned, because you’d need a program to crawl all of your friends’ profiles and grab the information. Easily detectable. Unless your software package does the above… and even then, probably still slightly detectable.

I can also see why facebook prohibits this. This would be a drain on bandwidth, as well this would encourage companies to do spam marketing campaigns by harvesting emails found on profiles. I mean, you gotta look at both sides of the picture, but shouldn’t there be a happy medium, somehow?