Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products

An anonymous reader writes "Following the announcement about its major privacy revamp this week, Facebook has announced it is killing two of its products. The company has axed Facebook Places, although it is still adding new location features at the same time. In addition, the social network has has axed Facebook Deals, although Check-in Deals will still be available."

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[AnotherAnonymousUser]

For all the complaints about Facebook posts on Slashdot, I really find it useful that someone is keeping tabs on the site that I have open every time the browser is open, posting the most recent scandals, news, and peer-reviews of the newly released features.I don't subscribe to Facebook's update blog and most of the The only reason I ever knew about Beacon back in the day was because of Slashdot's coverage of the story. The legal issues surrounding the ownership of Facebook have been interesting to track c

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[MurukeshM]

Abandoned. I believe the class-action lawsuit it begat forced fb to do so.

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[SilverHatHacker]

You mean Facebook isn't actually entering the terrorism and drug fields?

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[Lord Lode]

So according to the title, it deals "products". I wonder what products this is about.

Oooo.. check in deals! Binspam!

[countertrolling]

What, is Slashdot gonna print every press release from these people on the front page? I mean really, who gives a fuck about facebook, except the damn teeny boppers? What can't you people do a writeup on Redhat 5.2 running on a Mac Performa, or something?

Re:Oooo.. check in deals! Binspam!

[cvtan]

Clearly you have no idea about what is really important.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, like, why TF is the NASCAR race on ABC being superseded by f'ing Hurricane coverage - I can see that anywhere, but the race is ONLY available on f'ing ABC.

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[Aerorae]

Booooooooooooooooooooring~~~~~~~~ (that's why)

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[Savantissimo]

Facebook is not news. Facebook is not for nerds, it is for fools. What we need is not more Facebook folderol, but a script that will mod -3 (idjit) anybody who is damn fool enough to even entertain the notion of having a Facebook account.

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[Ltap]

We have an apple.slashdot.org. Why not a facebook.slashdot.org? Then we could filter out stories from it and be a lot happier.

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[MurukeshM]

He gives a fuck: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2401368&cid=37231476 [slashdot.org]

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[syockit]

If you have to blame, blame the community. Apparently, when a select number of moderators is elected from the readership to determine what gets to the front page, there are always a significant number which will mod this kind of news up.

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[Jarik_Tentsu]

Considering that Facebook probably has a market share Redhat can even dream of - and not just the 'damn teeny boppers' as you said, but just about every demographic there is - I'd say people do give a fuck.

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[Runaway1956]

I give a fuck. I'm not a teeny bopper, but I have my idiot sons, my dingaling wife and her dingaling sisters, a myriad of lackwit coworkers, some oddball friends and associates, and some freaky neighbors who are all pretty clueless about online privacy. None of them listen to me, but one day, when a whole bunch of them start saying, "How did blah-blah learn all this crap about me?" I can say, "I told you so!"

Much of what happens to privacy online is unconscionable. Sending an email, or a message to a per

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[gmhowell]

What, is Slashdot gonna print every press release from these people on the front page? I mean really, who gives a fuck about facebook, except the damn teeny boppers? What can't you people do a writeup on Redhat 5.2 running on a Mac Performa, or something?

You misspelled Yellow Dog. And you better have an FPU (pisses me off, I only had a Mac with a 68LC040)

I had no idea that they even existed.

[Anonymous Coward]

I had no idea that they even existed in the first place. Well, I guess I won't miss them!

Copying Google+ already

[GabriellaKat]

So, basically they are copying Google+ already...

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[me at werk]

Eh? Google+ features checkin on the mobile G+ app [google.com] (it's the checkmark in a circle in the top, see the screenshot for "stream") and their latitude platform [google.com].

Those are Services not Products!

[kurt555gs]

Products have both mass and volume. Otherwise it's a service. Or, do you really think those boxes of insurance on Progressive commercials are really products.

Don't be fooled by corporate babel-speak.

It was worth it for the headline.

[Nationless]

If anything this whole post was just for the sake of making a misleading headline that vilifies facebook while the reality being harmless and, frankly, pointless.

Got your clicks though, didn't it?

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[moozey]

You do realise Facebook (and all social network sites) actually makes it EASIER to communicate with people over the internet? If I want to contact someone, I don't have to track down their email or their address or even their phone number- I can just log on to Facebook, search their name and send them a message in two clicks. But look, I shouldn't have to explain to you how Facebook can be a beneficial service. If you're too retarded to understand it yourself then you should probably be the one jumping off

Facebook is a wonderful tool if used properly

[jwilcox154]

I do agree with you 100%, Facebook does make it easier to communicate with people over the internet. While the original poster did make some sense that it is best to meet others IRL sometimes it is impossible to meet all friends IRL. For example I have met a few good friends through facebook. One person I have met has been such a wonderful friend to me. She lives in Ilkeston, Derbyshire and we have chatted quite a bit over the past year about the FB games we play, our troubles, our interests, Doctor Who