stradric

November 23, 2010 at 5:19am

Facebook sucks.  Not only do they behave quite unprofessionally in this instance and some others, but they can't even do a good job implementing this childish behavior.  Anytime facebook makes some new move, I don't doubt them for a lack of ambition.  I doubt them for their lack of technical prowess.  There's not a single thing on the Facebook website that I look at and say "oh wow, how did they do that?"  Google on the other hand has some amazing functionality in just about every one of their major products.  Unfortunately, despite Google's own superior technical prowess, I can't think of something that Google could do to screw over Facebook without being the bad guy to all of the Facebook users who no doubt use google tools as well.  They should just play the high ground and say "hey, if you want a gmail connector in facebook, talk to facebook about that."

 

Also, who the hell grants Facebook access to their Google account?   That's just craziness.

Morpheous416

November 22, 2010 at 9:02pm

All of the explicit details of this issue, all I can say is, that Facebook has been getting a lot of heat about allowing personal information to be accessed by the applications.  In my opinion, this is "third party" in some cases as I am sure, FB isn't the one actually creating all those applications.  They shouldn't need your email address, phone number, or area of residence to play them.

"If" Google is demanding that FB hand over all personal information that FB has, then FB has the right to tell them no.  Google is already battling issues over it's Street Views... and just because someone wishes to become part of FB, shouldn't have to include in it's terms of service, that they have to give up their personal information to Google.  Gmail user or not.

GreenTurtle

November 22, 2010 at 5:04pm

If I had to choose between FB or Google, I would ditch Facebook. I could do without it.

Eoraptor

November 22, 2010 at 4:35pm

Gotta say, if facebook wants to maintain its rising arc and make contention for being the hub of all things internet, pissing off the most powerful search engine (80+% share) is not the way to go about doing it.

Say what you want about Google's supposed altruism; when all it's asking for is a share of the wealth it's contributing to, flipping it the bird is neither a smart business move, nor a good move as a pillar of the net.

Biceps

November 22, 2010 at 1:34pm

Facebook is evil.