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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wish they would quit screwing with facebook and  the games are starting to suck also and take forever to play. I have quit several because of it. The enjoyment is getting less and less each month just to be part of it. I don't post myself enough to keep others informed of everything. I just don't need the glory of that for myself. And my true firends know what I'm up to anyway.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[allen hockaday]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 7:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't even use Facebook except to get messages from my church.  It was beginning to take over my life.   All the invites from this person and that organization and all the passing around of IQ tests, hugs, etc.. <br><br>They should rename is as Lamebook]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bobalanross51]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 11:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[well that is new to me but I would like to state that i received an e-mail that stated that my password ahd to be changed. and when i was just being curious to see my computer found a virus in the message. just thought that people should know be for they open an email like that. from facebook<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alivia Powell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 1:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yes i use facebook and i think that you have to pay...<br><br>Cash for Gold Scam]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kevinkerson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 11th 2010 4:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[ i would not pay for any social network including PUSBOOK]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sage]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 7:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[AND WHY do I need Facebook to keep in touch with whomever? I have my e-mails and phone to do that with. An e-mail works just fine for me and I do hear back, so what's the point of Facebook anyway?? Oh I know, it's so you can keep in touch with friends, WHAT!? Oh and play the games, I forgot that. How would you feel visiting someone and you leave the room for a minute, come back, there gone and you find them in their computer room playing a game on Facebook. Then don't get off of it because of it? How rude is that! They spend there whole day doing this your told. Good Lord, now we are addicted to a game on Facebook! Come on people-----get a life!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[razzi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 7:51AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Everything I have read on here is griping about the way people use sites.  It sounds to me like it is the person.  Its not like the site is forceing them to play. they choose to start the game and choose to keep going back.  ne good bussiness would be stupid not to have a number of different things to OFFER to their users.  it just erks me when people are graping about a site when it is not the sites fault.  its the users who have nothing better to do.  look at this site people have nothing better to do than come to this site blogging and graping.  it pretty much the same concept. just different site different day.<br><br>nothing personal to ne one just blogging bout the complexity of thing said, or not said.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alivia Powell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 2:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think that you just had a bad experience with a rude person who did not get it that when you have a real live person visiting that trumps all computer, phone, games, etc.<br>Facebook is good for what it is but will not take the place of real human contact.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lisa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 2:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[cash for gold scam]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[blue497497]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 27th 2010 6:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[If FB knows its a scam don't they have th right to block/shut down any ill advised user accounts including pages associated with it?  DO IT ZUCKERBERG, you can monitor the spam a little better than that!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sandd2001]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 8:36AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Shouldn't there be a [sic] after "their" in "GET YOUR UPGRADE WHILE THEIR FREE!!" within the context of the article?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ches]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 8:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[@ches:<br><br>Thanks, we added a [sic] after the first "their." Although, we did originally underline "their" in the second mention -- we're writers, after all, and that did not escape us.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Zuras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 10:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Who proofreads these stories? On the Gold Membership story, it's they're not their. How can these stories be taken seriously if the writers can't even spell correctly?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cathyhri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 9:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[That is the point> The group itself used the wrong form, not this article. It states that the use of the wrong form should be a red flag that the group is a scam.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 10:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[The story's bottom line, to me, is that Facebook is somewhat vague about denying the claims. FB has been, in fact, very sneaky about extending its reach beyond a social network site. The most recent is that now you have to provide your e-mail to various apps. There's a reason for that -- advertisers want to get to you personally and directly rather than flash ads on your computer screen. So I'd not be surprised at all to see FB at some time in the future start charging for certain features and services. The alliance with Paypal would certainly be the foundation for such a fee. <br>Anyway, joining a protest FB page isn't going to sway the website one way or another. In fact, the more people who join and protest, the more traffic the site sees. So it's counter productive. If FB starts charging for services, I'll just stop using it. <br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lori]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 9:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Easy enough to get past the e-mail thing. I just give them my spam-filter e-mail account. ^_~ That way, they can keep sending their e-mails into a black hole I'll never see.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lsgilbert89]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 2:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Those apps are 3rd party applications.  Facebook merely creates a platform for those applications to run on and anyone with coding experience can write an app.  Blame the app creators (Farmville is created by Zynga  <a href="http://www.zynga.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zynga.com/</a> ) on requiring your email address.  As for advertising on Facebook - those are targeted based on what basic information you put on your info page.  Remove most of the info and the ads will become more generic.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lifeisgood_5]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 1st 2010 3:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[They should start a fee for Facebook, so that young teens and children wouldn't have access to a networking source that could be potentially dangerous to someone of that age........<br>Please, charge as much as you'd like. Although I do believe it's the parents responsibilty to monitor their childrens activity, just like our parents tried to monitor our phone usage (back in the day of land lines) we always found a way to get the call through. The difference is, we were only talking with one person, not the entire network.........never mind being able to post pictures, personal info or even worse sexting. Someone out there needs to be able to monitor and police these sites. Until then, put a charge on it............]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[troisilk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 9:22AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Too many children have their parents' credit card info including the security code on the back.  Once that information is there the cardholder will have a hell of a time contesting it.  I don't think children should have cell phones, credit card info, etc.. It is just another way of letting children raise themselves so the parents don't have to pay any attention to what they brought into the world.  Facebook can be a great babysitter.  Yeah right!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bobalanross51]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2010 11:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Why 'We Will Not Pay For Facebook' and Gold Membership Scams Refuse to Die]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/02/23/why-we-will-not-pay-for-facebook-and-gold-membership-scams-ref/</guid><description><![CDATA[Charging for membership will NOT stop children from joining the site. Many children have plenty of money to spend on games & recreation. Age limits haven't worked, why would charging membership fees?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PatsyS]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 25th 2010 10:03AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
