I have finally found some long lost friends and was able to communicate with them no hassles. Oh and the apps, some are stupid, some have fine print that charges your cell phone bill if you do not scroll down the page and see the fine print. Some are fun to play. Tension breakers.

But if anyone is going to sit at thier computers and complain about the hard work another person or organization has put together…. AND ITS FREE!!! Then why don’t you cry babies go and design your own community website that has millions of registered users who do not complain, but enjoy the hard work that has been done.

Go get a life. Go outside the studio apartment you have and notice that life does not revolve around you!

It’s easy to complain about the missing payments system, but frankly, I think that you’re desperately underestimating the complexity of such a system. Unless they’re just building a giant Paypal plug-in (which they’re not), they have a very complex problem on their hands.

Facebook has a huge international market, it’s not like they can just hook-up a credit card provider and start processing. They need to work in multiple currencies, likely with multiple payment providers. They need to adhere to various privacy laws (US, California, Canada, EU, UK, just to name a few, lots of Turkish users too). And it’s not like they’re just taking in money, they’re also paying it out. So now they need to keep in mind the various tax laws for the inhabitants of the countries they’re paying out to.

The legal issues alone are likely a multi-month journey and it’s not like you can re-create Paypal overnight. If they get it out by the end of the year, that’s a technical accomplishment.

This statement is basically unsupported: Instead, there were minor tweaks to a platform that needs a major overhaul. So I’m not even going to argue with it.

As mentioned above, Facebook Connect is not Vaporware.

Your problems with the Messaging platform are very unique and shared with a very small number of people. I can safely say that 99%+ of the population do not have your issues.

I just got back from a high school reunion organized via Facebook (and a party). I talked about Facebook, I even talked about the conference. These “normal” users are not bored with Facebook, they’re not champing at the bit for integrated payment systems. Honestly, their biggest annoyance is “stupid apps” and FB just launched programs to help deal with that.

Arrington, I think that you have to understand that Facebook has now been globally embraced and it’s really doing exactly what it needs to do for the vast majority of its users.

There was no controversial but exciting new product experiment unleashed on a gushing audience.

What do you call Facebook Connect? This sounds pretty exciting (SSO has been a long-time developer wet-dream) and controversial (privacy guys were asking questions that even FB didn’t have good answers to). Honestly, FB connect is way more important to FB’s near future than payments. In fact FB Connect makes payments that much better when it does roll out.

Thats how market leaders die at some point. They become too careful or think they can’t be beat so sit back then some one else swoops in and by then its hard to catch up again.

One of your TechCrunch50 candidates is payments in Facebook! And it’s working, right now.

Have you seen the Facebook+Slide demo?

On Monday we will show Loic the Facebook+Seesmic demo.

The hackathon was impossible, and only a few people ended up staying there. A. because there was a giant speaker pumping trance 5 feet from any couch in the room and B. they had 6 power strips in the entire place.

I did learn two things though. Over and over and over again.

The conference was sponsored by the words ECOSYSTEM and MISSION. Which every employee made sure to drop in every other sentence that came out of their mouths.

I also found this funny…the whole web isn’t about facebook, so we looked at the bigger picture with facebook connect…which in the end actually makes the whole web a lot more like facebook.

funny how all billionaires are boring.