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Facebook would own other site's comments. Not good.

• warkaiser 18y ago
  ^upvote. Facebook has enough control over data, we should keep this away from their paws.
  • _lc1i 18y ago
    Why? Everything available to Facebook, I voluntarily put there. Just as anything I say in a comment in their widget will be voluntarily contributed. As a Facebook consumer, a single identity across all my comments tied to a service I already enjoy makes Facebook that much more useful to me. Let them do with the data I gave them as they please. Hell, I am far more concerned with how much credit agencies seem to know about me, and I never like giving my information to them =p.
    • antiismist 18y ago
      Well someday Facebook might sell your info to credit agencies, which they can do at will. How will you feel when your credit rating gets lowered because of some off-hand comment you made on some blog?
• shib71 18y ago
  And what happens with users that want to comment but choose not to use Facebook? (yes we exist)
  • tokenadult 18y ago
    And what happens with users that want to comment but choose not to use Facebook? Something similar to what happens with users who want to comment but choose not to use Disqus, methinks.
    • danielha 18y ago
      Not exactly. You would comment normally without an account.
      • unalone 18y ago
        On Disqus or on this Facebook model? I'm sure that this Facebook system could be hacked to allow for unregistered comments.
        • danielha 18y ago
          1) Disqus 2) As plausible as hacking Disqus to allow Hacker News accounts.
  • dbul 18y ago
    Agreed. It is possible Facebook doesn't care because many people do have accounts, but I would take non-users into consideration.
  • andylei 18y ago
    http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/commentdemo/gallery.php?picture=1 http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/commentdemo/gallery.php?pi... it seems like the widget already allows for people without facebook accounts to comment