Owen Williams on The Next Web:
[W]ith Facebook’s announcements [of March 25th], it’s suddenly significantly harder to avoid the service at all. If you didn’t have a Facebook already, like 1 billion other people, you’re going to find it even harder to avoid in the future with these changes. It’s now becoming the easiest way to do anything on the internet.
Great, right?
The problem is that Facebook controls what you see and when. If it becomes the primary way to consume news and watch videos, what happens when a news story is controversial about the company itself? Or isn’t within its content guidelines (like pornography)? You’ll be receiving a filtered version of the internet that’s controlled by one company.
All tiny pieces that don’t sit well with me, and that are part of the reason why I left Facebook. That even Google should be scared doesn’t make it any less worrisome.