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Ten years ago everyone criticized Facebook for being a walled garden. Today everyone is criticizing Facebook because the walls around its garden aren't high eno

• dijit 8y ago
  What? I don’t buy that. Apple is criticised for being a walled garden, I don’t think I’ve ever seen strong criticism toward Facebook for that; I assume you’re conflating them somehow. Facebook was criticised for a few things; constantly changing the UI, selling personal data (although this was mostly opaque and treated as a rumour that wouldn’t harm _you_ really) and being a monopoly. Now it’s criticised for aggressive targetted advertising, which may have had a hand in polarising people and even allowing some companies to highten fear and aggression to the point where it subverted democracy in some nations. It’s also criticised for stifling free speech and siding with governments de jour in heavily censored countries like Iran. I mean. I was an adult using Facebook before “the social network” movie came out; but maybe I misremember?
  • shrimpx 8y ago
    I can see the analogy: in the early days Facebook was invite only and at some point a lot of people were curious and wanted to get in. Now we want it to stop spilling out onto us.
    • wtetzner 8y ago
      Was it really still invite-only in 2009? I thought it opened up well before that.
      • wardbradt 8y ago
        It became available to the public in late 2006. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/welcome-to-facebook-everyone/2210227130/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/welcome-to-facebook-...