Looks like your plan to take over the digital globe did not work. Fail

If it was about security, then, surely, you would be more at risk from someone taking offense at you if they lived near you (in the same network) than halfway around the world?

I’m in a group trying to get FB to recognise my county (Cornwall) as a network before its too late but FB has done nothing but prevaricate for about a year. I think they’re replacing networks with groups to save themselves the hassle of doing the setting up themselves. The result is going to be a case of too many cooks…

There’s already a load of perfectly good ‘local’ groups on facebook that do the job. These ‘Regional Network’ groups are a waste of time, and interestingly enough, run by the same bunch of people.

Do yourself a favour, just join one of the local groups run by locals themselves.

It was a more visually stimulating craigslist in a way.

At first I thought it was the government of VN that had taken down the Vietnam Network page, not facebook itself.

The current implementation of Network Pages may have been unsatisfactory in the developers minds, but the developers aren’t the ones who use the pages, are they? The developers seem to be substituting their judgment for the actual users. (Which, as I mentioned in my earlier post, they seem to do a lot.)

Maybe you’ll come up with something better than Network Pages, but deleting a feature (some) people actually use without having a clear replacement plan ins anti-user. Facebook keeps claiming to “fix” things that nobody was complaining about.

If you look at the posts here, the only serious complaint about the utility of pages was the spamming of network walls. Removing network walls would be less disruptive than getting rid of Network Pages altogether, and would inconvenience fewer users.

Of course, getting a real handle on spam would be even better. Currently, it’s too much damn work reporting spam. I have to click “Report,” then I have to click a checkbox for “spam” or “attack” AND I have to fill out a text box. (Frankly, I shouldn’t have to give a long explanation for a work-at-home or porn site spam. If the people working in Facebook’s abuse department can’t recognize spam when I flag it, you need new people.) And still, the spam sticks around for a few days. Spammers don’t seem to get their accounts deleted very quickly, either.

Deleting Network Pages looks like you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water, and feeding a vague promise of a new baby. Facebook needs to get a handle on spam, and pay more attention to what users want to do with the site. Friendster ignored everything its users wanted, and look what happened (or didn’t happen) to them.

I could go on, but I know you’re not going to reply, because Facebook developers never take criticism seriously enough to reply.