Comments on: What Removing Regional Facebook Networks Means for You

By: Mike L

Mike L — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:51:04 +0000

Hey great post! I also like the rest of your website…very interesting focus and stands out from the crowd, at least to me!

By: Irene Elbrand

Irene Elbrand — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:10:01 +0000

I’m a relativly new member of facebook. I’m retired and would like to find members who live near me. Why do I have to work or attend a university in order to network? That’s discrimination!

By: John Mullany

John Mullany — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:27:40 +0000

I was on Facebook to network and surf around looking for people with common interests. Now 99.99999999999999% of accounts are closed. What am I to do? Friend people then ask them what we’ve got in common?

By: chris skelly

chris skelly — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:42:06 +0000

What an absolute bullet in the foot from the worlds premier social NETWORKING site, for such a site to remove the ability to “NETWORK” from its portfolio is, i am sure, the start of the demise of facebook.
it is surely the end of the line for this ever morphing monster, yes , facebook you are todays darling but tomorrows wasted whore.
i hope that the people who matter have earned their coin from this experiment, because unless people can actually meet and interact with NEW people (as the original facebook allowed). then this will become what it sadly started out as.
a way of college alumni to contact each other.nothing more and nothing less, i am currently bombarded with users that are P***ed off with facebook.
wake up . smell the cappuccino facebook.
next years social NETWORKING site is currently being encoded by a student not far from you.
and to be honest…i cannot wait.!
people tried you , they liked you, they joined you….when people start hearing whispers of a better site then their (and my) loyalty has gone.
please restore the Original regional and city NETWORKING option because without this, the only people i will be able to network with are the TW*TS that I spent 11 years schooling with and the samr TW*TS that i have no wish ever to contact again.
you have 3 months to return regional networks facebook.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:15:12 +0000

I agree completely with this–Facebook really needs to have Regional Networks as a means of finding only people in your area. I’m trying to make a Note about an apartment for people in my city and now I can’t do it.

By: Carol Ross

Carol Ross — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:55:24 +0000

How is anyone supposed to know if they have found me when they search for me, or one of the other 494 people with the same name as me, if there are no regional networks any more??? Taking away the option to be in a regional network is just daft!

By: Rachael

Rachael — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:42:42 +0000

The new restrictions are unfair to new FB adopters and to people who want to change their networks. The regional or city networks are still in place for people who belonged to them previously. They can see profiles of non-friends in their city networks who have left them open to the network. I am new to a city and the old way of just being in a regional network was a great way to meet new people. Now I cant becuase of the “new network” thing.

By: Clairie

Clairie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:37:24 +0000

Join this facebook group to try to get them to bring networks back!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=142196041935&ref=mf

By: Andy S.

Andy S. — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:03:47 +0000

This is indeed dumb. They tell me that the stuff is still intact–it is not. There is nothing on my profile that even indicates this.

As to the privacy issue… There are two types of facebook users. I am of the “open book” type. I don’t put anything up there I don’t want anybody to see–therefore privacy isn’t an issue. If it were then I would not have opened it up to my network friends. If people can’t understand this difference, they poo poo on them– They deserve the consequences!

Another issue. Alumni in Schools. What is the big deal about this kind of validation. Classmates.com is very successfull and doesn’t get all hung up about this. Why should facebook?!
(again because of privacy–see above!).

Another thing. Facebook needs to get more stability on their platform than dealing with this thing anyways. Half the time people are in my chat window that are long since gone, etc.

I think I am about to go back to having a website and a block and let Google do the rest… This isn’t fun anymore and this kind of reliability leads only to misunderstands (dissing) and frustration.

By: Dave Scott

Dave Scott — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:36:46 +0000

When I joined up I could specify Columbus, OH as the regional network. Then I decided to point back to my hometown of Springfield, MA to see if anyone I knew back in the ’50s was still there. Once that proved fruitless, I tried to revert back to Columbus, OH. Tried several times and each time the code tells me I can’t. Some nonsense about not being able to change networks but once every 60 days. So I tried pointing at my school, Ohio State where I last graduated in 1970, a long time before they even thought about email. So naturally I can’t join up. Now it seems no networks are available to me as the work email I had before I retired at the state of Ohio has long since been cancelled, like 10 years ago, and my personal and work email DaveScott@columbus.rr.com can’t be entered in the form. Of course, since I’m a sole member LLC, there’s no one else at my company to connect with. Duh!