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“We are less than happy about this restriction and kind of offended that their proposed solution is to pay them ad revenue to message to the users who opted in.”
“You’re either spending ad money on Facebook or spending time by working on there; both benefit Facebook.”
“Facebook has never been a huge driver of traffic for us.”
“We can’t measure our own performance, and it’s not an empowering effect.”
http://mashable.com/2013/02/07/facebook-is-too-damn-powerful/
But we'd better start thinking about the monoculture this has created.
I suggested in my Facebook predictions for 2013 that this would be the year the world discovered what sort of service — what rowdy bunch of change-happy hackers — it has invited into its lives. Now it seems that's starting to play out.
The questions remain: will the benefits outweigh the breakages? Will Facebook realize it needs to start acting like a company with a billion users and handle with care? Or will its global power, so effortlessly gained, be wrested away from it by regulators?
“We are less than happy about this restriction and kind of offended that their proposed solution is to pay them ad revenue to message to the users who opted in.”
“You’re either spending ad money on Facebook or spending time by working on there; both benefit Facebook.”
“Facebook has never been a huge driver of traffic for us.”
“We can’t measure our own performance, and it’s not an empowering effect.”
http://mashable.com/2013/02/07/facebook-is-too-damn-powerful/
But we'd better start thinking about the monoculture this has created.
I suggested in my Facebook predictions for 2013 that this would be the year the world discovered what sort of service — what rowdy bunch of change-happy hackers — it has invited into its lives. Now it seems that's starting to play out.
The questions remain: will the benefits outweigh the breakages? Will Facebook realize it needs to start acting like a company with a billion users and handle with care? Or will its global power, so effortlessly gained, be wrested away from it by regulators?
