Sounds like a brilliant product plan to me... "See what we can do for you? See the traffic we can drive and link to you? Want more? Choose your level of tra

Sounds like a brilliant product plan to me... "See what we can do for you? See the traffic we can drive and link to you? Want more? Choose your level of traffic, choose your price." The article makes the assumption that 3rd-party businesses that have been suckling at the teat of the social graph are the value to the facebook users. They're not. The users, the actual people are - businesses are just there to help pay for the whole thing, and follow the personal users. I say this as a business owner who uses facebook heavily, and occasionally pays them for the right to get a little bit back out of them. I've yet to see a single person in my timeline say "I'd stop coming to facebook if all of these businesses didn't have pages here."