> that's pretty conspiracy-theory-y I don't think that it counts as a conspiracy theory at this point. I think their intent is very clear. Here's Facebooks st

> that's pretty conspiracy-theory-y I don't think that it counts as a conspiracy theory at this point. I think their intent is very clear. Here's Facebooks strategic cookbook according to my experience and opinion: 1. Advance into new territory 2. Make it nice and cozy to attract enough people 3. Fence it off and lock people in 4. Go to step 1 Examples would be: - Anonymity - XMPP support for their chat - making the time line a clusterfuck (is it actually still a _time_ line or what do the call it now?) - the reach of public posts on business sites (unless you pay) - the whole thing how facebook videos are treated unequal to videos from other sources (probably everything originating from facebook sources is treated as more relevant in your timeline, who knows...) - we also have the facebook articles thing where publishers will likely leave a few kidneys behind when they try to get out of it again The fun thing is that as soon as people feel comfortable using a certain feature, they don't really notice how they get locked in. Like a prison with walls so far you can't see them. Keep living inside and build your life and house and whatever have you. When the walls close in, you either leave everything behind or rearrange yourself according to your new overlords. Edit: formatting