As I was merrily Facebook’ing, the site redirected to a big, awful, center-page modal that loudly proclaimed WE HAVE SUSPENDED YOUR ACCOUNT. The abruptness of this immediately had me thinking it was some sort of redirect injection or at least some kind of malware. There’s no way Facebook just chops off longtime accounts like this, right? Wrong.
I found this passage from a recode podcast interview Mark Zuckerberg took part in about free speech and had some thoughts.
Perhaps unexpectedly, new and novel legitimate services are being created that can also be used to display pirated content. The future of piracy may be a trojan horse in every legitimately used service.
As a publisher of multiple sites (and a reader, no less), I’m keenly aware of the struggle faced by the need to reach users, but the cost of doing it. If what we do doesn’t somehow lead back to our site, is this something we could ever embrace? With the recent announcement of Facebook Instant Articles, I’ve been thinking about this more. Is this a great development for publishers, or the start of a new, dangerous path for Facebook?
While working to move this site to using encryption, I have come across another painful reminder of how inadequate the Facebook comments plugin really is. When changing the url (and ultimately the domain) of this site from http://cwl.cc to https://cwl.cc Facebook doesn’t handle the change very well. What I’m left with is losing another swath of great comments and thinking of a fix.
With a name like Paper, it seems Facebook may be reaching for much more than a way to find stories from posts. Facebook may be shooting for the lofty goal of being a news service, and a starting point for when people read the news.
Facebook users delete friend, the friends comment, pleading for a stay, while the user, one by one, removes accounts of friends they don’t know. I’m hear to say you can stop pruning and put the metal objects down. There is no need for you to delete Facebook friends. Ever.
If you give that to Facebook, privacy isn’t your problem. But, Facebook Home appears to have other very concerning things you should think about. I take a look at this very interesting development from Facebook.
Facebook’s coming event on April 4th coined “Come See Our New Home On Android”. You knew it would never happen on April 1st, that’s for sure. Lots of folks are saying that this is actually a “Facebook Phone”.
The year is drawing to a close and it’s a good time to reflect on the more important technology, hardware, software and news stories of 2012. It’s been something of a mixed bag…
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