We’re making an effort to vault ourselves into at least late 2009, so we’ve added Facebook Connect commenting capabilities to the site.
When you go to comment, you’ll see a little “Connect with Facebook” button above the normal commenting field. If you click this, you can give us permission to pull in your Facebook photo and your profile link. Then you can comment using your Facebook account and (if you choose to) share your comment with your friends on Facebook. This does not give us access to your Facebook login information, and we won’t post anything to your profile unless you’ve specifically requested and approved it.
I know a lot of you love using pseudonyms on here, and you will be able to continue doing so. You don’t HAVE to use your Facebook profile to comment. But you CAN.
We’re going to be making a lot of changes in the next month or two to make this site more “social” and to make it easier for you to connect with each other and to share your love of gossip with the people in your network. I’d love to hear your feedback on the new commenting capabilities, and what you’d like to see moving forward. Leave it in the comments or email me at evilbeet@gmail.com!
Pseudonyms, what’s that? I prefer nom de guerre. Sorry, my facebook is too awesome for you turds.
Dislike!
I love this idea. Thanks.
i hate this idea.
it doesn’t help us network, it gives your website more exposure.
btw, this site is getting more and more cluttered, it’s becoming quite unpleasant.
indeed. the people of EB should have asked us if we wanted it to change, i mean, without us looking at this crap, they wouldn’t have a job. i would have said no thank you as well.
IT´S A CHOICE!! click on the button or dont, but dont bore me with YOUR ignorant crap
Using double exclamation points is ignorant.
It also suggests you failed ninth grade English.
uh ceci,
Sasha asked for our feedback, there is nothing ignorant about readers answering her question.
H, why do u even bother to write if u have nothing better to say? i just dont get it.
and uh melissa, opinion is not just spewing vile comments because you can. If you have an opinion express it, that way evilbeet may learn from your opinion – which is what she wanted to in the first place.
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ceci,
un-wad your panties.
no thank you
More like Ch-ch-Ching”.
It is all about revenue, nothing else.
“We’re going to be making a lot of changes in the next month or two to make this site more “social””
Replace “social” with profitable.
Before everyone gets their knickers in a knot, I acknowledge this is a business and the purpose is to make a profit, but I dislike how it is implemented, hyped, and touted as some great addition taking us into the next century of “sharing” and “connecting”.
Sounds like a tactic right out of D.C.
Tell everyone that you know better than they do just what it is they need.
wow, i actually agree with you good lord :)
if sasha was a more genuine person she would just tell us she needs to make some changes and become more like the other gossip sites what are whorred out with ads, ads, ads and facebook intruding every single fucking place in our online lives.
also, going through the pics takes FOREEEVER! I had ad-ware but somehow those little buggers are popping up again and it makes me want to smash my keyboard. If this site continues to incite rage towards my computer I will have to leave for good.
Sasha does not care though, she is looking to attract the readers that love tmz and is fine with losing the readers that valued this site for it’s unique offering of celebrity gossip.
once again the almighty dollar wins and those with better taste lose.
I’m still grieving over the demise of arrested development.
Sean Penn takes it up the ass!
Sorry, I saw the douche bags face on another story and I had to hate on the ass wipe.
Sean Penn fucks his neighbors dog!
ok..ok..I’ll leave.
What’s the big freakin’ deal? They’re just giving you more options. Of course it’s self-serving; this is a business. But at the same time, you don’t have to use the FB stuff. GET OVER IT.
This is the internet. It EXISTS for people to whinge anonymously.
I do agree with the “get over it”, though.
Facebook Connect is infecting every website these days. It’s creepy and straight up Big Brother. It’s just another way Facebook to gather more info on you and post stuff on your wall. All in the name of convenience.
Do Not Want!
agree!
too much facebook already
im very concerned with facebook security
I would do this, but everyone on this site has a burning desire to stop me from posting already, so I can imagine all of the Facebook love I’d get. :)
You missed to “ch”s in your title.
Fuck…..*two
i like the idea.. :)
Fuck off slum-dogs
oh my god good lord!! go back to the cave u came from u disgusting racist prick
Do you just sit around and be indignant all day long? The guy spews crap like this for attention – don’t buy in to it. Welcome to the internet.
thanks ceci and rosita.. :) and yeah.. i dont care what these assholes say..
hahaha i´m not indignant all day long…why dont i ask for your permission everytime i wanna post something, will that make u feel better? get a life and stop telling me how to comment
plus, one thing is good lord being an insensitive asshole about everything and another that he specifically insults someone else, cant u see the difference?
Actually I live in a hole.
Umm that’s great but I was talking to that Ceci broad.
I used to read EB all the time and would post somewhat often. Lately, there is just too much going on and I find it too cluttered to enjoy. Also most of the gossip feels a day old.
It’s not the same site I used to read and I find myself checking in on it only occasionally. The commentators are not as witty as before so I found myself commenting less and less. I actually think it’s time that EB and I part ways.
Good luck with the site. Maybe I’m just the one who’s changed.
EMO!
haha love it!
although i am pretty sure when it comes to the evil beet:
“it’s not me it’s you.”
HEY GUYS! Please can you make an Evil Beet app for Android for mobile phones? When I use Evil Beet on my phone (Motorola Dext/Cliq), none of the pictures show, and you can’t read the posts properly.
I’m on it.
We have iPhone apps and Android apps in the works, although they may still be a little while out …
agreed with everyone else – this idea sucks and it isn’t at all original. the site has so many fucking pictures on it everywhere along with the terrible writing that it’s becoming hard to read.
I have to agree I liked this site much better about 1.5 years ago when beat had much more input. I don’t really check it that often any more.
i really don’t want FB to have anything to do with this site. you’re going to put that FB crap up no matter what the comment are so go nuts anyway.
i agree beet needs to ass more imput. you’re really the best blogger of the bunch ans we all miss your posts. i also agree that most of the news feels a day or 2 old and the posts cn be more witty. i still like the site; i just used to like it better. xo
Thanks everyone for the input. We’re in the process of redesigning the site, so it will be easier for everyone to use, contain a bunch more content, and hopefully create an even better experience for the readers. I will always be around from time to time to post, and it’s nice to be missed, but in a few weeks you’ll be meeting a shitload of new contributors who I think you’ll simply adore. :)
“in a few weeks you’ll be meeting a shitload of new contributors”
How about hiring someone who isn’t so far fucking left in their thinking or lifestyle as your current brood is. You would think they all went to the Jane Fonda school of female journalism. How about a male writer? You have your Girl site, so bring a male perspective to this estrogen filled mud puddle.
What we don’t need is more stoners, ex-ACLU interns, or incompetents.
Stop stapling ads for writers onto poles outside drug rehab centers, abortion clinics, or pharmaceutical pot stores.
I wanna hear some male writer do the opposite of what I always read here. Trash talk the skanks, talk about wanting to screw some Hollywood bimbo, anything besides the current dribble. I do not even have to see who is writing to know which one of your girls is writing.
This site is extremely predictable. If you want to hang yourself (as a business) that is one foot off the stool already.
OK EVERYONE, BRING IT ON. LET ME HEAR IT!
Thank you for posting the updated and unabridged version of War and Peace
Considering Beet is always bragging about her skills as a programmer on her personal blog you would think she would use a current version of WordPress instead of an outdated version. Security holes are discovered all the time.