Just listened to your 09-Feb-10 bombcast mentioning facebook...

...and I am one of those people I guess you could say are getting bent out of shape about this.  Okay, so like I said in a previous post when someone mentioned "how do you like the new site?"; I just said, "I hardly use facebook as it is right now, and here, I will use that integration crap even less".  But now this where all this social networking crap is popping up everywhere kind of slapping you in the ass of sorts and saying "psssst, hey, hey, come on little guy, just one click here and you can promote your nerdism all over facebook as well as promoting this news story.  Now I already digg stuff(add a button for all that crap and I am out) myself if I feel that it is really something worth noting or different without someone having to remind me every post I make or every news story I read.
 
Now I am not furious about this, but do people really do this stuff?  It seems like the people who do this are the people who don't know how to bypass those invites when they add an application to their facebook and then that application wants to add 25 of their friends to use that application.  Yeah, 13 year old girls.  I tend to think that gamers are a bit more savvy and think about it before twitter-vomit.  
 
Now Giantbomb, just think about your buddy Lar-bear aka Major Nelson and his daily twitter-vomit fests; now you wouldn't want to have any of your users be associated in that same vein, now would you?
 
 

Get the FUCK over it.  Don't like it, go to another site.

it's unintrusive, opt-in and very well done. 
 
I don't personally use it but kudos to the coders who slaved over it, it's damn fine work.

I use it pretty often. Although i fail to see why it's needed here.

" Get the FUCK over it.  Don't like it, go to another site. "

Dave has already said they'll be adding an option to turn the facebook messages off once they've squashed the bugs related to the update.

" @Cube said:

" Get the FUCK over it.  Don't like it, go to another site. "

Hey, make sure people respond to your post by using swears.   Oh, jeez pal, yeah, I guess that stuff works on me.  I just replied... dag nabbit.  On a more serious note; that huge baby-blue bar does not really mesh well with the site aesthetics either...that is like design 101. "

" Dave has already said they'll be adding an option to turn the facebook messages off once they've squashed the bugs related to the update. "

So, you'd leave an awesome site and awesome community because of the option to do something? That seems a little harsh to me. 
 
If you don't like it, don't use it. It's not like it's making you click the button. The reason they added it is because some people would use it.
 
Edit: I misread, and see that you meant a Digg button would force you away. But the point still stands. Is it really worth giving up all the awesome content and stuff here because they give you the option to Digg an article or news story?

That's hilarious, it really is. You'd leave if they implemented a Digg button? Seriously? You can't get much more juvenile than that.
 
I don't like the huge 'connect' button at the top, but it's not like it's menacing. It's not actively antagonizing me, it just looks bad. There's no need for it to be on every page, either. It should be hidden away like the 'link your gamertag' option.
 
SPEAKING OF WHICH.
 
Why is it easier to link your facebook account than your gamertag on a primarily gaming website?
 
But yeah. I don't think you could possibly overreact more.

" @MattyFTM said:

" Dave has already said they'll be adding an option to turn the facebook messages off once they've squashed the bugs related to the update. "

Thank you matty for at least being civil in your comment.  I mean I am not trying to bash GB guys because I love them, but I know there are so many sites I have already left because of this whole social networking phase.    Hey, guys remember flash back in about 2005 when everyone thought that was the future and I was just a hater for not being totally behind that...well in 2010, we see how well your all flash sites worked out. "

The worst thing you can complain about is the aesthetics. You absolutely cannot claim it is stupid, useless, etc., since it is completely opt-in.

Oh, no! There is a button that people click to connect to Facebook but I don't want to connect to Facebook so now this entire site sucks and my life is ruined!

I Like Turtles. 

I'm glad there's going to be an option. This isn't something that'd I'd really be very vocal about, but it doesn't look terribly appealing.

" I Like Turtles.  "

" Dave has already said they'll be adding an option to turn the facebook messages off once they've squashed the bugs related to the update. "

Why would anyone care? Does this hamper reading posts, browsing the site, posting things?  Who gives a shit, who gives a fuck.

" Get the FUCK over it.  Don't like it, go to another site. "

I don't really see the huge problem.  I mean, it's not that hard to just ignore.

I can't even focus long enough to respond to this thread...that button is antagonizing and distracting me. LEAVE ME ALONE FACEBOOK!

" @MattyFTM said:

" Dave has already said they'll be adding an option to turn the facebook messages off once they've squashed the bugs related to the update. "

I'm pretty sure he said he might, not that he would. "

" Dave has already said they'll be adding an option to turn the facebook messages off once they've squashed the bugs related to the update. "