While I was checking my Facebook friend requests yesterday, I was surprised to see a request from my good friend who I’ve been FB friends with for quite sometime. I didn’t think he deleted me, so I checked out his profile. The other day I saw 253 for his friend count, and it sat at a mere 21. I also missed his wall virginity, but he had 3 posts, instead of the 700 +. After talking with him on IM, he tells me he was banned from Facebook. When he logged in, he saw a message notifying him that his account was terminated. Why would they simply take down a loyal user, with hundreds or friends, actively commenting and interacting on their social network? “Overuse” of the inbox, Facebook says. Apparently the 30 or so messages he was sending out every day in his inbox, was putting too much load on the sever?

Facebook has told users in the past that the inbox is not to be used in the same way as instant messaging. By clicking the friends online link, you’re able to see which friends are online, then start a conversation with them. Facebook recently launched Facebook Chat, which will sort out this problem many users are having. Though my friend Luke, didn’t get any warnings, just got cut off. I couldn’t imagine losing all of this, and it makes you put less trust in these online social networks. He didn’t have any really important data stored on Facebook, but imagine what would happen if this occurred to a power-user of Linkedin. This problem won’t occur again with the addition of Facebook chat, but just remember this when you invest lots of time into online communities.

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A few years ago, before I had a podcast, blog, twitter or any of this new media stuff, I played a game called RuneScape. Since I quit about 3 years ago, I hadn’t had an interest to check back on it. One day, I found an urge to check back, and regain some old memories. RuneScape was also known as the highly addictive game, and well though-out, but with “crappy-graphics.” Last figure of players I can remember was 5 million, but I’m sure that’s at least doubled by now, and it may be due to the aspect that the game is online, needing now downloads. For those who haven’t played this game, RuneScape is a game which allows you to train a variety of skills, communicate with friends, and fight. RuneScape has over 30 skills, ranging from Magic, to Range, to even Construction. The game is free to play, however a member version is available for a small monthly fee which includes a larger area to explore, more skills and many more objects to obtain. In addition, players can complete Quests, little missions, and receive XP, experience to train a skill, or a reward which unlocks an object or area.
My point of this post is that when I checked back on the site, I noticed the Recent News displaying an article about ‘An Image of the Future.’ I the article summary, gave a little teaser that they’ve been hiding a big secret over the past year, and I pondered over what it could be. They’re not going to release a new skill, they just unveiled Summoning, which allows you to summon various creatures and train them. They’ve got 100s of quests, added clan features, and several things I wanted when I had quit. Not so much of a surprise, but something I didn’t think about, a graphical update! RS Classic, the original version of the game had awfully bad graphics, then RuneScape 2 was released, with improved graphics and a whole new feature set.

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They’ll also be adding a third option of playing the game at full-screen. Jagex lost of over 60 000 paying members due to removing PK, player killing as an attempt to stop real world trading of the in-game currency. I’m very excited for this graphical update, I’ll just have to find a way to resist myself from playing

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Gotta love that. Couldn’t resist posting, today’s goodie on Macintosh GUI, and also got lots of good votes.