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"How could facebook be partitioned?" I've considered this, and I think only mild partitioning would be effective. For example, separating Instagram from facebo

"How could facebook be partitioned?" I've considered this, and I think only mild partitioning would be effective. For example, separating Instagram from facebook instead of integrating it further. This would do nothing to the site itself, though. My solution would be to have facebook be more willing to work with other social networking sites. Right now facebook is like a telephone company that only allows folks to talk to others on the same network. Minimally, the chat programs would need to communicate with each other, even if they didn't share all features (still needs to be very useful). Further changes would be things like allowing other social networks to view "public" things one posts or being able to friend across platforms. This is unlikely to happen, though, if it is possible at all. I'm assuming that a standard would need to be agreed upon and they'll be quite the fight from facebook. Not to mention the sheer amount of work it would involve upfront or at least I'm assuming, as I'm one of the non-tech folks that are reading here.

zakk 9y ago
Indeed, separating Facebook as is would be close to impossible. However, a first step would be imposing FB to expose all features and user data using an open protocol to be defined. That would be a good thing on its own, given that it would make possible for other networks to federate with Facebook. (And when you think about it, it's much closer to the usual Internet, think of SMTP, BGP... A monolithic service like FB is actually the exception!) Moreover, it would set the ground for splitting Facebook into two (or possibily more) federated networks.