In my opinion, the ship has already sailed for the FTC to have any say in how Facebook interoperates its own applications. If they were truly concerned about a

In my opinion, the ship has already sailed for the FTC to have any say in how Facebook interoperates its own applications. If they were truly concerned about a monopoly on social media, the sale of those apps should have been blocked in the first place. What is the point of telling Facebook not to make their apps interact with each other? Are they thinking Facebook employees can't see the databases of their other apps? Is the FTC going to pretend they know anything about how the databases are supposed to operate? What about one big database with an App field; would they know if Facebook did that? What about multiple databases on the same server; is that an antitrust violation? The entire rationale for looking at Facebook now just seems like going after an easy target. Either evaluate the antitrust arguments on their own merit and break those apps off Facebook, or leave it alone.