Facebook explicitly wants to be THE monolithic dominating force on the internet. You can't even use it without signing up and joining the whole Facebook thing.

Facebook explicitly wants to be THE monolithic dominating force on the internet. You can't even use it without signing up and joining the whole Facebook thing. It is the new AOL. I'm still waiting for the "Internet" of social networking sites to come along and make Facebook, MySpace, etc. things of the proprietary past.