• Facebook

    From The Millionaire@VERT/PARKAVE to All on Mon Jun 20 20:22:50 2011
    Facebook? Is it the next giant to die a slow death? I was watching the news
    the other day and they said 7 million people have left Facebook, although at the same time, Facebook reports that it is growing more stronger than ever. Fact or fiction?

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Mon Jun 20 22:15:41 2011
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Mon Jun 20 2011 16:22:50

    Facebook? Is it the next giant to die a slow death? I was watching the news the other day and they said 7 million people have left Facebook, although at the same time, Facebook reports that it is growing more stronger than ever. Fact or fiction?

    In a way I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook died off, since other sites like MySpace that were once very popular have died off.. although I think Facebook is still fairly good as far as social networking, so I don't plan on leaving it unless a bunch of my friends there leave to use another social networking site..

    Nightfox

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  • From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to The Millionaire on Tue Jun 21 01:34:36 2011
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Mon Jun 20 2011 04:22 pm

    Facebook? Is it the next giant to die a slow death? I was watching the news the other day and they said 7 million people have left Facebook, although
    at the same time, Facebook reports that it is growing more stronger than ever. Fact or fiction?

    I'm sure they're growing financially. In the end, they're gonna get crushed under their own weight. They've become so big that they have to sell out in order to stay afloat. The sacrifices they have to make to turn the profit is driving people away. That, and they're becoming overly complicated.

    In the beginning, it was the simplicity that attracted people, and the lack of ugly advertising. In the end, at some point, I think a percentage of people may start using homegrown forums again (not BBSes, I'm sure, but locally established nonprofit forums). I think that'll happen because as hobbyists, we aren't out to seek a huge profit. So, very little advertising. With people all across the world setting up small online local communities, it scales naturally. Perhaps we'll even see some forums gated to usenet ala "echoes" ;)

    I'm waiting on Diaspora to become easier to install, and I'll be setting that up alongside my BBS. Last I checked its dependencies were a nightmare; the authors even said it was rather complicated and recommended using their server until the code was a little more complete.


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  • From Jame@VERT/ROCASA to The Millionaire on Tue Jun 21 16:05:12 2011
    Facebook? Is it the next giant to die a slow death? I was watching the news the other day and they said 7 million people have left Facebook, although
    at the same time, Facebook reports that it is growing more stronger than ever. Fact or fiction?

    Last I heard, Facebook admitted to haveing something like 600,000,000 members...



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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to The Millionaire on Tue Jun 21 15:05:53 2011
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Mon Jun 20 2011 04:22 pm

    Facebook? Is it the next giant to die a slow death? I was watching the news the other day and they said 7 million people have left Facebook, although at the same time, Facebook reports that it is growing more stronger than ever. Fact or fiction?

    It's tough to say - I think a lot of people are getting sick of the privacy issues, but even more are staying on, and putting a cleaned-up version of their online lives up there.

    I know I use it mostly just to share pix of kids nowadays.

    --pF

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Dreamer on Tue Jun 21 15:08:08 2011
    Re: Facebook
    By: Dreamer to The Millionaire on Mon Jun 20 2011 09:34 pm

    I'm waiting on Diaspora to become easier to install, and I'll be setting tha up alongside my BBS. Last I checked its dependencies were a nightmare; the

    I'd love a federated social network. Run your own server, host your own data, and talk to others on your own terms. Identi.ca does this for microblogging - you can run your own server but talk to other servers easily. No more Twitter "Fail Whale".

    But, most people are on Twitter. I'm getting sick of the twitter adbots, sometimes post something random just to see who follows me.

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  • From IB JOE@VERT/JOESBBS to The Millionaire on Wed Jun 22 20:25:26 2011
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Mon Jun 20 2011 04:22 pm

    Facebook? Is it the next giant to die a slow death? I was watching the news the other day and they said 7 million people have left Facebook, although at the same time, Facebook reports that it is growing more stronger than ever. Fact or fiction?

    fact

    North Americans are leaving it but 3rd world countries are entering it in droves

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  • From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to IB JOE on Wed Jun 22 22:02:43 2011
    Re: Facebook
    By: IB JOE to The Millionaire on Wed Jun 22 2011 04:25 pm

    fact

    North Americans are leaving it but 3rd world countries are entering it in droves

    Is that why I get all those messages from Somalia or some such place? :)


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  • From Owl@VERT/NIGHT to All on Mon Feb 6 02:49:00 2012
    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the color and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....


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  • From The Millionaire@VERT/PARKAVE to Owl on Mon Feb 6 18:31:44 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Owl to All on Sun Feb 05 2012 09:49 pm

    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the colo and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....


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    That would make Facebook go down for sure for indecent language among usage.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Owl on Tue Feb 7 03:40:57 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Owl to All on Sun Feb 05 2012 21:49:00

    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the colo and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....

    I use Facebook mainly to keep in touch with friends. I don't really care about the other nonsense that people post there, and I pretty much ignore it, similar to how I've trained myself to filter out TV commercials and banner ads I see on web sites.

    Nightfox

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  • From thinktank@VERT/INLANDUT to Owl on Tue Feb 7 00:32:09 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Owl to All on Sun Feb 05 2012 09:49 pm

    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the colo and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....
    some people do that. But I dont.
    Matt Munson ~ Ontario California ~ http://www.inlandutopia.com

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  • From Ajk@VERT/NORBERTB to Owl on Sat Feb 11 03:51:48 2012
    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the color and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....

    A friend posted their Kentucky Fried Chicken dinner which included a
    turdy brown lump. I asked the question and apparently it was premium meat.


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  • From Owl@VERT/NIGHT to Ajk on Fri Feb 10 21:06:00 2012
    Re: Re: Facebook
    By: Ajk to Owl on Fri Feb 10 2012 10:51 pm

    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the co and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....

    A friend posted their Kentucky Fried Chicken dinner which included a
    turdy brown lump. I asked the question and apparently it was premium meat.


    --
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    Alex Kemp (ajk) telnet://norbertbbs.org


    Funny


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  • From N8ERC@VERT/THEMACHI to Owl on Sat Feb 18 17:27:35 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Owl to All on Sun Feb 05 2012 21:49:00

    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the colo and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....


    NIGHTOWL BBS
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    that made me laugh so much that my wife asked me what happened


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  • From Ve2oox@VERT/CANADA to Nightfox on Thu Feb 23 23:55:40 2012
    I use Facebook mainly to keep in touch with friends. I don't really care about the other nonsense that people post there, and I pretty much ignore it, similar to how I've trained myself to filter out TV commercials and banner ads I see on web sites.


    Same here. There's a lot of junk on FB. But in a positive note, I did some successful BBS promotion on Facebook, and got some really interesting replies.
    Many of my high school friends (heavy BBS users in the early 90's) learned
    via FB that BBS 8s still kicking!

    Facebook used smartly, can be an excellent promotion tool, especially to bring in people -- now that BBSing is accessible to everybody, more and easier than before.

    Dimitri Papadopoulos
    Trans-Canada BBS

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT/PARKAVE to Ve2oox on Fri Feb 24 00:49:16 2012
    Re: Re: Facebook
    By: Ve2oox to Nightfox on Thu Feb 23 2012 06:55 pm

    I use Facebook mainly to keep in touch with friends. I don't really care about the other nonsense that people post there, and I pretty much ignore it, similar to how I've trained myself to filter out TV commercials and banner ads I see on web sites.


    Same here. There's a lot of junk on FB. But in a positive note, I did some successful BBS promotion on Facebook, and got some really interesting replie
    Many of my high school friends (heavy BBS users in the early 90's) learned via FB that BBS 8s still kicking!

    Facebook used smartly, can be an excellent promotion tool, especially to bri in people -- now that BBSing is accessible to everybody, more and easier tha before.

    Dimitri Papadopoulos
    Trans-Canada BBS

    I found it to be useful for reference like looking up websites on the
    internet and coming across a page for interesting information otherwise it didn't work for me talking to a lot of people though and ending up dropping
    it after a 3 week trial basis.

    $ The Millionaire $
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  • From Generalram@VERT/NORMAD to N8ERC on Sun Apr 1 22:11:05 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Owl to All on Sun Feb 05 2012 21:49:00

    Its been a while since I've been on FB, have users started posting the colo and texture of their latest bowel movements yet? Wouldn't surprise me.....

    that made me laugh so much that my wife asked me what happened


    They have done that on Kuro5hin since 2002 IIRC. I don't think it has spread
    to Facebook yet. I think it might happen on Facebook soon.

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT/PARKAVE to All on Wed May 23 01:08:25 2012
    I've been reading rumours about Facebook shutting down on July 15, 2012.
    Looks some people really want to see it crash badly it seems which doesn't matter to me either way to see its demise. I know some people will rant and rave but others will just find another playground to swing on, so to speak. Social media sites keep popping up left and right these days so if Facebook decides to take a turn for the worse, what will be the victor to replace it? What is the vision for 2012 and beyond?

    $ The Millionaire $
    Park Avenue Place
    Surrey, B.C., Canada █ ♠ █
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  • From The Viper@VERT/VIPERDEN to The Millionaire on Wed May 23 04:33:41 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Tue May 22 2012 09:08 pm

    Probally will never happen, esp since it just went public.

    My wife would go off her rocker if it did though


    I've been reading rumours about Facebook shutting down on July 15, 2012. Looks some people really want to see it crash badly it seems which doesn't matter to me either way to see its demise. I know some people will rant and rave but others will just find another playground to swing on, so to speak. Social media sites keep popping up left and right these days so if Facebook decides to take a turn for the worse, what will be the victor to replace it? What is the vision for 2012 and beyond?

    $ The Millionaire $
    Park Avenue Place
    Surrey, B.C., Canada █ ♠ █
    the.millionaire@parkave.synchro.net




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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to The Millionaire on Thu May 24 03:21:32 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Tue May 22 2012 09:08 pm

    I've been reading rumours about Facebook shutting down on July 15, 2012. Looks some people really want to see it crash badly it seems which doesn't matter to me either way to see its demise. I know some people will rant and


    it wont shut down. it's making too much money selling its users info and showing them ads.

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  • From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to The Viper on Thu May 24 01:47:49 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Viper to The Millionaire on Wed May 23 2012 12:33 am

    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Tue May 22 2012 09:08 pm

    Probally will never happen, esp since it just went public.

    My wife would go off her rocker if it did though

    I hadn't read anything yet about it shutting down (also highly doubt it
    as well), but from what I've read the last couple days they're getting
    into some deep shit with the SEC. Oh, and just read today that their
    brand spanking new shareholders are pissed off enough that they're suing
    anyone to do with the IPO...lol

    We had an older gentleman come in early last week talking about the IPO.
    I tried my best to warn him off...but he was committed to putting over
    half his liquid assets into it, thinking even if he doesn't come out
    ahead he'd just sit on it until he breaks even. He couldn't even imagine losing money on Facebook. I wonder how much he's freaking out right now.


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  • From The Viper@VERT/FLAMINGS to Dreamer on Thu May 24 07:42:25 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Dreamer to The Viper on Wed May 23 2012 09:47 pm

    I am sick of facebook myself, I only use it for family contacts.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Dreamer on Thu May 24 23:02:58 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Dreamer to The Viper on Wed May 23 2012 09:47 pm

    I hadn't read anything yet about it shutting down (also highly doubt it
    as well), but from what I've read the last couple days they're getting


    there are chain letters about it shutting down several times a year.
    also chain letters about how they will charge money.

    the did it with myspace too. not worth discussing.

    i still dont get why people send chainletters. one place i worked with had a huge problem with that.

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  • From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to Mro on Fri May 25 02:36:19 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Mro to Dreamer on Thu May 24 2012 07:02 pm

    i still dont get why people send chainletters. one place i worked with had
    a huge problem with that.

    People are too trusting. Their best buddies send them stuff, so because they trust their buddies, it must be true.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Dreamer on Fri May 25 15:11:58 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Dreamer to Mro on Thu May 24 2012 10:36 pm

    Re: Facebook
    By: Mro to Dreamer on Thu May 24 2012 07:02 pm

    i still dont get why people send chainletters. one place i worked with had a huge problem with that.

    People are too trusting. Their best buddies send them stuff, so because they trust their buddies, it must be true.


    well they would just send junk and on the bottom it would say 'if you believe in jesus...etc etc' or 'if you want the baby kittens to stop being clubbed' send this to everyone! amen!

    i wonder if whoever creates these things is sitting back and laughing when he sees that they propagate so much.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Sat May 26 12:56:29 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Tue May 22 2012 21:08:25

    speak. Social media sites keep popping up left and right these days so if Facebook decides to take a turn for the worse, what will be the victor to replace it? What is the vision for 2012 and beyond?

    From the looks of things, I imagine people might migrate over to Google+ if Facebook shuts down. I have no reason to believe that Facebook will shut down any time soon though. ;)

    Nightfox


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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Sat May 26 15:49:26 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Sat May 26 2012 08:56 am


    From the looks of things, I imagine people might migrate over to Google+ if Facebook shuts down. I have no reason to believe that Facebook will shut down any time soon though. ;)


    well google plus had a lot of promise.....THE FIRST DAY they opened their doors.

    then it became obvious that they had NO clue what they were doing. just with google wave.

    they alienated and blocked celebs by accident. one example is shatner got blocked for saying 'hi'. i'm surprised he's still using g+

    right now i dont like facebook and i've had issues with g+ deleting my
    funny photos and wanting to know my real name and bugging me about entering info on my friends.

    i'd rather use nothing. these companies just want to get our information and sell it. remember when google was the cool company with the cool furnature and the free attitude. now they're evil. they're sniffing wifi traffic on their google cars FFS!.

    i think we all need to get together and establish a way to increase anonymity and just say no to companies that want information they are not entitled to. it's just a sad thing that anonymity on the internet is widely criminals and sick people.

    perhaps there can be some site that CAN'T sell your information
    and then we can have a sort of openid login to all the other popular social and photo sites.

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  • From Cykros@VERT/ERIS to The Millionaire on Mon May 28 20:01:38 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: The Millionaire to All on Tue May 22 2012 09:08 pm

    I've been reading rumours about Facebook shutting down on July 15, 2012. Looks some people really want to see it crash badly it seems which doesn't matter to me either way to see its demise. I know some people will rant and rave but others will just find another playground to swing on, so to speak. Social media sites keep popping up left and right these days so if Facebook decides to take a turn for the worse, what will be the victor to replace it? What is the vision for 2012 and beyond?

    $ The Millionaire $
    Park Avenue Place
    Surrey, B.C., Canada █ ♠ █
    the.millionaire@parkave.synchro.net


    Well, I'm going to say you probably saw some rumor in a chain letter, and that's all. That said, however, they're currently being hit by a $15 billion class action suit for violation of Federal Wiretapping laws, and another class action suit for selective disclosure prior to the IPO, so whether or not they even make it til NEXT July is anybody's guess (to put it into perspective, they made a total of $1 billion in profits last year, which was their highest year to date). Personally, I'd love to see them fall, and haven't been on the site in just over 5 months now. I would HOPE Diaspora* or one of the other distributed social networks picked up their flailing user base (almost said customer, but thought better, as Facebook's customers are the ones buying ads...the users are the product), but really wouldn't be surprised if folks jumped on Google+ or something of that nature.

    cykros

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Ve2oox on Tue May 29 23:14:18 2012
    Re: Re: Facebook
    By: Ve2oox to Nightfox on Thu Feb 23 2012 19:55:40

    Facebook used smartly, can be an excellent promotion tool, especially to bring in people -- now that BBSing is accessible to everybody, more and easier than before.

    That's true. Many businesses are on Facebook and are offering deals where if you "Like" them then you will be entered for a chance to win something. Having people "like" them on Facebook helps them because then all your friends will see that you "liked" something and then they might click on it to find more information.

    This isn't limited to just Facebook. I've also heard about companies going into Second Life (an online 3D virtual world, similar to an MMORPG but it's open-ended without a specific goal).

    Nightfox


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mro on Tue May 29 23:18:39 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Mro to Nightfox on Sat May 26 2012 11:49:26

    well google plus had a lot of promise.....THE FIRST DAY they opened their doors.

    then it became obvious that they had NO clue what they were doing. just
    with google wave.

    Yeah, I checked out Google+ once or twice but never ended up using it much, mainly because most of the people I know still use Facebook. I like to keep in touch with people, and I'll go where my friends go. For now, that's Facebook.

    they alienated and blocked celebs by accident. one example is shatner got blocked for saying 'hi'. i'm surprised he's still using g+

    That's interesting and laughable at the same time. :)

    right now i dont like facebook and i've had issues with g+ deleting my
    funny photos and wanting to know my real name and bugging me about
    entering info on my friends.

    i'd rather use nothing. these companies just want to get our information
    and sell it. remember when google was the cool company with the cool furnature and the free attitude. now they're evil. they're sniffing wifi traffic on their google cars FFS!.

    I agree. I remember when Google was just a nice search engine, but more and more these days I have a sinking bad feeling about Google. I'm not sure how much I should trust them anymore. Meanwhile, I use Gmail, and I have an Android phone and an Android tablet. It's either Android, Apple (control freaks and overpriced hardware), or Microsoft (the big market bully). You just have to pick the lesser of the evils.

    Nightfox


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  • From Eduardo@VERT/NORBERTB to Nightfox on Fri Jun 29 20:20:36 2012
    Re: Facebook
    By: Nightfox to Mro on Tue May 29 2012 19:18:39

    Re: Facebook
    By: Mro to Nightfox on Sat May 26 2012 11:49:26

    well google plus had a lot of promise.....THE FIRST DAY they opened their doors.

    then it became obvious that they had NO clue what they were doing. just with google wave.

    Yeah, I checked out Google+ once or twice but never ended up using it much, mainly because most of the people I know still use Facebook. I like to keep
    in
    touch with people, and I'll go where my friends go. For now, that's Faceboo
    k.

    they alienated and blocked celebs by accident. one example is shatner go
    t
    blocked for saying 'hi'. i'm surprised he's still using g+

    That's interesting and laughable at the same time. :)

    right now i dont like facebook and i've had issues with g+ deleting my funny photos and wanting to know my real name and bugging me about entering info on my friends.

    i'd rather use nothing. these companies just want to get our information and sell it. remember when google was the cool company with the cool furnature and the free attitude. now they're evil. they're sniffing wifi traffic on their google cars FFS!.

    I agree. I remember when Google was just a nice search engine, but more and more these days I have a sinking bad feeling about Google. I'm not sure how much I should trust them anymore. Meanwhile, I use Gmail, and I have an Android phone and an Android tablet. It's either Android, Apple (control freaks and overpriced hardware), or Microsoft (the big market bully). You j
    ust
    have to pick the lesser of the evils.

    Nightfox



    I Prefer to choose Open-Source and les bigger companies. In fact,i just use Windows as a alternative to run programs today,linux/unix based systems are much more pratical and faster. I Also dont trust in Google anymore,since their new privacy agreement things got really unstable,its like every search you did was stored and used against you in the case they wanted. I Still use some of their products,like Orkut (Its stills the best Social network in my country,and the home for debate and discussions) and Plus/Facebook in a very uncompromised way,just to talk with friends and Family. I Was never a Big fan of Apple or Samsung/HTC/All android phone users,always prefered Nokia and their stul,as it always satisfied me. Internet is into a dark future,i feel that some big companies will crumble with the time and something very unpredictable is coming out. We will obviously have innovations and new features/advancements. And it till stay for a long time,although with some censure coming out.


    Eduardo



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