Damn, part of me is considering deleting my facebook account seriously.
\nWhat do you think??<\/p>\n
As usual with Facebook, you\u2019re already entered into their nefarious scheme by default, though you can opt out. But it\u2019s not exactly a cakewalk. PC World\u2019s JR Raphael details the multistep tango [8] for turning off auto-sharing and disentangling your data from third-party sites.
\nZuckerberg talks about the convenience of the Social Graph, and he\u2019s right — it is more convenient when Pandora knows more about my musical preferences. (Of course, considering a premium Pandora account costs $36 a year, it should already know plenty.) It\u2019s more convenient to simply click a button on a site I\u2019ve just discovered and populate yet another Web profile with information I\u2019ve already entered into Facebook. It\u2019s more convenient to see which friends share my perverse interests without having to scroll through their Facebook profiles.
\nBut the social graph isn\u2019t about convenience — it\u2019s about control. Facebook wants to own single-sign-on and authentication, just as Apple wants to own what apps you can install on your Wonder Tablet [9], and Amazon wants to control how you manage e-books on your Kindle [10] — only Facebooks wants to do it across the entire Web.
\nFactory City blogger Chris Messina [11] writes:
\nWhen all likes lead to Facebook, and liking requires a Facebook account, and Facebook gets to hoard all of the metadata and likes around the interactions between people and content, it depletes the ecosystem of potential and chaos \u2014 those attributes which make the technology industry so interesting and competitive. \u2026 it\u2019s dishonest to think that the Facebook Open Graph Protocol benefits anyone more than Facebook \u2014 as it exists in its current incarnation, with Facebook accounts as the only valid participants.
\nAs I and others have said before, your identity is too important to be owned by any one company.
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