DISQUS

Ediciuz Virtuoso · 4 months ago

Not only does it pull a pic of your friend, it first looks for pics of you and your friends together.

SEO BLOG READER · 4 months ago

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Miguel · 4 months ago

what kind of name is that and how do pronounce it? like noise? and did you use ning to build it? that's what it looks like.

Guest · 4 months ago

hahaha Spot on! It IS a Ning community! burn... Check out the source: there's http://knoyce.ning.com all over it... Some people...

SEO BLOG READER · 4 months ago

I didn't build it..I've just heard a lot of people talking about it. It seems like people want something other than Facebook. I deleted mine about 4 months ago. Not sure who made it. Just seen them on twitter

KT · 4 months ago

too bad its by INVITATION ONLY!!!!

Knoyce · 4 months ago

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jonmadison · 4 months ago

you are silly. it's just a ning community.
what the heck?

Jaosn Wagner · 4 months ago

A friend of mine actually deleted his account yesterday and posted a similar screenshot on twitter. Oddly enough (or maybe intentional) the 4 or 5 friends FB picked happened to be some of his best friends. I wonder if FB looks at ur friends and sees which ones you interact with most, then uses them to guilt you into staying. It seemed to me that it was more than just random. I'm going to try it and see.

Jaosn Wagner · 4 months ago

Just tried it out. It doesn't seem to be smart enough to pick out the friends you interact with most. The friends I got were mostly random. However, it does try to find pictures of you and your friends together like the above commenter mentioned. So since you're in pictures with these "friends" it's probably likely that you are close w/ them.

michelle · 4 months ago

lol woah what a way to go!!

Dave · 4 months ago

Half the people I'm friends with on Facebook I haven't spoken with in years so I highly doubt that they will be "missing" me

Oday Nasser · 4 months ago

how idiotic is this article *kmt*

katyy · 4 months ago

Nice one ! Lot of people are going to miss me :)) Right !

James Hume · 4 months ago

Yea I got the same, all the photos had me in them, lol. I also noticed that its a required field to let Facebook know why you are leaving!!

Ridiculous · 4 months ago

I really don't think you can ever get rid of your Facebook account. If you notice, they just call it "deactivating", not deleting. And when you do it, the message says you can sign back in and "reactivate" it at any time using your same email and password, so obviously your info is kept. That way your account still counts in their figures. I never liked Facebook and got rid of mine.

J Wesseldyke · 4 months ago

You're right to a point... I deactivated my account and got notices every day that it had been reactivated... Even though I hadn't done anything to reactivate it. There is a way to permanently delete your account... There was a link in my "reactivation" email to delete it once and for all.

rurunavira · 4 months ago

I've "deactivated" my account several times before, only to be tempted to "activate" again, lol. I didn't notice the permanent deletion option in the "reactivation" email though, I'm gonna look for that and delete my acc once and for all! Facebook, meh, wastes alot of my time...

noncoformist · 4 months ago

for permanent delete:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_f...

Pink · 4 months ago

FaceBook is smart, ok. But i really suggest to quit as soon as possible. I don't be so sensible to stop my proposal for some Fb friends photos...

ana · 4 months ago

For me, Facebook is a waste of time, sometimes only see photos unknown. I prefer Twitter!

Madison1964 · 4 months ago

250 million people are going to miss me. They'll just never know it.

iTbay · 4 months ago

Depends if their ridicoulsly good looking - Zoolander.
It wouldnt break my heart; ppl should be smart enough to know what their doing. Facebook will miss ya: the ad rev u make them. The pics R just bots! Lol

Livia · 4 months ago

Hard to leave! Indeed.. they use the profiles of people that are on my photos. Well done! :)

NatMich · 4 months ago

Haha, I like the creativity with this idea but I'm not sure that would work on me... contrary to popular belief, there are other media for communicating with friends other than facebook ;).

Kimberly · 4 months ago

I imagine that those deleting their accounts don't have a ton of people on Facebook that they want to keep in touch with, otherwise they wouldn't want to delete. I think those who are deleting are the ones who signed up cuz they heard the hype but none of their friends are on Facebook, so its not a value for them.

Gayla Ross · 4 months ago

Interestingly, 2 of the 5 "friends" listed are only on my friends list because of group applications such as Mafia Wars. They are not people who would even notice my absence. Two others are co-workers who I don't really interact with on FB.

Adam Williams · 4 months ago

If I've made the decision to leave Facebook, then a couple of pics of my friends aren't going to outweigh my reason to leave. Besides, the pics will be either of friends I don't talk to anyways or friends that I talk to some other way than Facebook.

Adam Williams · 4 months ago

I liked the picture of my wife telling me she would miss me.

Jennifer Van Grove · 4 months ago

Wow that's awesome. :)

SEO BLOG READER · 4 months ago

Many will be deleting their Facebook and Myspace account and moving on to Knoyce, the new social network coming out that is better than both of them. Here is a video of Knoyce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vjla93uwlg

Laurette · 4 months ago

My own husband would be sad to see me go! :D

Nikole Gipps · 4 months ago

I actually find that hilarious. Deactivating seems weird anyway ... if I want to not use it, I just don't use it. It's not like having a unused credit card laying around.

fgrottoli · 4 months ago

Whether or not you'd like to keep your Facebook account, we have to admit that they are using extremely modern ways to retain their customers, what I would call the new "CRM Frontier"...nicely done !

trinalina · 4 months ago

When I deactivated a few months ago it showed pictures of me with that friend saying how they would miss me. It was quite odd but I did it anyways. It does make you stop and think though

Jigar shah · 4 months ago

Hmm...Looks good. Good blackmail..!!

Vanessa Boynton · 4 months ago

I just deleted one of my two accounts this morning, and was totally struck by the photo display. It didn't keep me from saying goodbye, but it definitely made me pause and wonder if there was anything I needed to reconsider. Well played, FB, well played.

Leahchristine · 4 months ago

Apparently, my boyfriend would miss me. That's nice.

Carol Sue · 4 months ago

Kinda reminds me of the "Friends" episode where Chandler tries to quit the gym.

Jennifer Van Grove · 4 months ago

Great comment. I love that episode.

Joshua Wulf · 4 months ago

It looks first for people you have tagged in your own photo albums. I had 3 of the 5 friends showing the same picture and it isn't any of their profile pictures. It also pulled in a picture where I had tagged my wife and it was actually my little girl giving a sad look with her bottom lip out. The other picture was of a co-worker of mine. Four of the people, I'm not really that close to. The other is my wife and I talk to her more outside of facebook than on facebook so it wouldn't convince me to stay.

Test · 4 months ago

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NMN · 4 months ago

This works pretty well actually. Whenever I'm tempted to get rid of this addiction that is FB.
http://AppUseful.com

ArmyArt · 4 months ago

Didn't keep me from deleting.

Millus · 4 months ago

If I would be a hacker, I would delete all facebook accounts and all backups. :) This guys earn a lot of money with the social life and content of the users. They should give the users some of the money they earn.

Christien · 4 months ago

Depends on how relevant those friends are to you. I hope they're more relevant than the people FB suggests I add because we both happen to go to LSU. ;)

Jonny · 4 months ago

Nowadays, people are alienated from other people because of the virtual networking (instead of face-to-face networking). We, humans, need to find some way to connect to one another. By showing photos of your friends, you wouldn't want to delete the account since you are already emotionally attached to me (Attachment Theory). Um..I wonder how much research Facebook has done on social psychology.

Jonny · 4 months ago

Nowadays, people are alienated from other people because of the virtual networking (instead of face-to-face networking). We, humans, need to find some way to connect to one another. By showing photos of your friends, you wouldn't want to delete the account since you are already emotionally attached to me (Attachment Theory). Um..I wonder how much research Facebook has done on social psychology.

Sheila@The Re Agency · 4 months ago

Lol.

Brilliant move by facebook, "pulling at heartstrings" is a quality that the longest lasting brands have had on their side since early advertising. Look at Coca-Cola, now that's staying power. ;)

Go Inspire · 4 months ago

I could not DELETE my account. Only Deactivate. They guilt you and then they really won't let you go, either. Hmm. They are kindly keeping my username somewhere in case I decide I have made a horrible mistake and want to come back.

Andy Melichar · 4 months ago

Hey, it's still better than trying to cancel AOL.

anarchyintheuk · 4 months ago

Many people don't give a flying about the 'internet'.

Geeks imagine that everyone should run on to every site which is optimised.

A large percentage of my friends only want to contact people they know and do a few things, such as shopping, banking or (it ends in an *ing and begins with a w)

facebook have a strength in numbers, for whatever reason.

Geeking about people's behaviour is way behind the schedule. You may not like facebook, but perhaps that is because you spend too many hours on the internet (as I do).

I know people who do nothing on the internet other than facebook.

For those peoplk it isn't about guilt, it is about how they want to use the internet.

Gaby · 4 months ago

I deleted all my friends before I left Facebook because you can still get sent email notifications about invites etc from friends otherwise. They make it so frustrating to leave, I wonder how many people just leave their accounts to rot rather than deactivating them.

diSanto · 4 months ago

I think FB is a great networking tool. Now when your lives depends on it then that's when there is a problem

-diSanto

Abhijit Kar · 4 months ago

facebook is now loosing its charm and i don't find it attractive any more !

Warm regards

Abhijit Kar
http://www.abhijitkar.com

Beth Blecherman · 4 months ago

Don't deactivate.. I will miss you so.. <pull heart strings>

Danjalier · 4 months ago

Facebook presumes to know too much! Informing me that my friends will miss me for deactivating my account, suggests that my friends have no lives outside of Facebook, if you can even categorize the time you spend "Facebooking" as "living".

Sadly, it seems my friends are not alive as more than once my brief absences from Facebook have resulted in questions like "Where have you been? You dropped off the face of the Earth!"

If not being on Facebook means I've dropped off the face of the Earth, I'm content being a space cadet.

ibz · 4 months ago

Deactivate is for people that are unsure. That's why they do that. I deleted my account completely and didn't see that. Not sure what's the point of deactivate anyway. It's like "delete with think it over option"?

Kenny · 4 months ago

Facebook is pretty juvenile and I personally don't have time for such nonsense. It's just a stupid playground popularity contest. You know, "I've got more friends than you... so there"

Tobi · 4 months ago

The idea behind that is really great. But facebook uses your friends often to promote something. Like the group or brand suggestions on the top right at the startpage. Thats really brilliant as they do that...

Tobi · 4 months ago

The idea behind that is really great. But facebook uses your friends often to promote something. Like the group or brand suggestions on the top right at the startpage. Thats really brilliant as they do that...

Tobi · 4 months ago

The idea behind that is really great. But facebook uses your friends often to promote something. Like the group or brand suggestions on the top right at the startpage. Thats really brilliant as they do that...

Tobi · 4 months ago

The idea behind that is really great. But facebook uses your friends often to promote something. Like the group or brand suggestions on the top right at the startpage. Thats really brilliant as they do that...

Tobi · 4 months ago

Sorry for the 4 comments below. Please delete 3 of them :-)
My browser was just hanging...

Facebook Developer · 4 months ago

I was the victim of this very thing and eventually I decided to stay when I saw that heart wrenching page. Kudos for writing it down, and yes, it might be the brightest reason that people get retained at Facebook.

Dario de Judicibus · 4 months ago

Not really, since 80% of Facebook friends are just friends of friends of friends of... well, mostly unknown people. They won't really miss me and I do not feel guilty at all! ;-)

meanrachel · 4 months ago

I did this and got all pictures of me and my friends, but every one of them was a man. I posted it on my FB account if you want to see (http://www.facebook.com/meanrachel). I don't think it's a coincidence that FB might look for people of the opposite sex to keep you from leaving.

meanrachel · 4 months ago

I did this and got all pictures of me and my friends, but every one of them was a man. I posted it on my FB account if you want to see (http://www.facebook.com/meanrachel). I don't think it's a coincidence that FB might look for people of the opposite sex to keep you from leaving.

Robert · 4 months ago

Actually I deactivated my account and some how managed not to get that. I was only asked to click on a reason I was Deactivating.

Tony Haire · 4 months ago

Here's the hypocritical aspect of Facebook.

It's a social networking site. They provide dozens if not hundreds of games to play. Yet, when you try to add friends to play the game with you, you're "pinked" and warned that you're violating the TOS and could have your account deactivated.

Now, I'm as annoyed as anyone by invitations to joins games, events, etc. But these are friend requests sent to fellow game players who want/need more friends.

IT'S STUPID!!!! And FB only hurts itself with these stupid restrictions.

Mike · 4 months ago

I see these pictures of facebook execs and a caption that says email me in your ad picture....what are there names and email addressess so I CAN email them...please???

devin · 4 months ago

This is pretty interesting, I'm going to have to check and see which friends pop up (not that I've ever considered leaving my facebook).

I'd be interested to see your thoughts on our blog about social media and Gen Y: www.whowhatwherewheny.wordpress.com...

krangsquared · 4 months ago

Said it before, say it again: "Social networking is the new vendor lock-in"

Imagine, if they wanted to, they could amp up the guilt-trip a notch, with a bit more data mining:

"Why leave FB, when this is where you

... told everyone about your new-born child on April 9, 2007
... told your friends about your new job on October 6, 2008
... made a joke to your sister on November 2, 2008"

I find it insidious, the way these sites will now be the storage for a lot of your experiences in memories. And some of these bits and bobs are going to be precious stuff to us, but you can't take it with you once the site disappears.

Last century, we had photos and letters, and kept things in shoeboxes and looked at them every now and then. (yes, i know - no backups, fire/water damage, rats, etc) Now, we have hosted data - data that is so intertwined and format-dependent, and is totally gone once the host site is lost. I try to move conversations to Gmail, but a lot of the time, it's just so convenient to just stay in Facebook. We can't win. :(

Your Friend · 4 months ago

Ha. I clicked 'deactivate' and got pictures of 5 people who would supposedly miss me.
Looking at each one, I decided that none of them would actually miss me.
My real friends have got my number and they know they can call me anytime.
Facebook can fuck off.

Emily · 4 months ago

I havent gotten a reset e-mail from the facebook team so that i can re-sign on to my account, I also want to add that it has been almost a month since the problem has occurred and is still not fixed. I am ready to permanently delete my account and complain about the facebook team's poor attentiveness to fix problems.

rose moore · 4 months ago

you asked about deactivateing i never did but still cant get help getting back on my face book it has been at least 3 months and got no help my family are all on what seems to be the problem i would like to know they say it is the pass word then say it is the e m lets see now who is deactivateing

deactivate · 3 months ago

ive deleted my facebook account

Alex · 3 months ago

Anyone know what algorithm is being used to determine which friends pop up on the last page? Is it your activity, or theirs?

zelda23 · 2 months ago

I never signed up for facebook or any such listing. I do not have a facebook account. Therefore I cannot login. SOOOOOOOO.....How did I get listed, and how can I get my name and other incorrect info off facebook? Including an endangering listing of my address, which I have always kept private, as a woman living alone!

alexgall6 · 2 months ago

Guys, how can I deactivate my account for good, please? I have done it via settings about 15 hours ago and still here ;(((

justin · 2 months ago

ok, facebook was filling my inbox with requests and crap. I turned off all notifications and it didn't stop. I deactivated my account...IT STILL DIDN'T STOP.
I emailed facebook and was given a BS response of how to manually remove all the content in my profile.
This didn't help with the email notifications.
At this point I got creative.
First I posted F#$% FACEBOOK on my wall.
Then I changed my profile photo to a pornographic pic.
THen I deactivated my account and emailed abuse@facebook.com and told them my account has been hacked and I was offended by the pictures posted.

Within minutes my account was gone!!!!!


Feel free to repost this to help others.

Jasmine · 1 month ago

yeah, it puts tagged photos up! crazy!
it had my ex bf up there with a pic of us:
Andrew will miss you...

haha