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Facebook has shown us that putting your users in a "Walled garden" has done nothing to hurt their popularity, in the time being - though those applications are following suit with myspace in attracting a certain kind of audience!
The revolutionary part about the web was that anyone can build on it, with a standard set of protocols and language. Its great that Facebook is letting other people code "Apps" in their environment, but so far, there not much more than Social Networking viruses. Then theres the irritation factor - like I said earlier, it will turn away some more serious users that were turned away from MySpace - we're starting to see chain-messages and "spam" amongst certain applications.
"...never felt so bullied by people to join a site"
Saw Charman, a FOWA speaker said "[He's] never felt so bullied by people to join a site" And when I get dogmatic about it I get suspicious".
"It's a Web 1.0 idea in a Web2.0"
She added, "Facebook is a walled garden, so you can't see whats there unless you join and you can't take any of your data out once you have entered it." "It seems to be a move back to the days of AOL away from the etos of openness, portability and reusability. It's a Web 1.0 idea in a Web2.0.
In the FOWA backnetwork HOT OR NOT for 2008 sites we'll be loving/hating for 2008, Facebook is listed as not, alongide delicious and yahoo mail for varios reasons.