The Facebook backlash is gathering momentum as Zuckerberg's company tries to pull as much as it can inside its walled garden while sticking its creeping tentacles out as far as possible (hello Like buttons). Sam Biddle has written a lengthy and well thought-out piece at
Gizmodo which sums up the situation:
It's also mediocre, because no company online can be good at everything and so it's always ugly when they try. Which is why the the internet is great—we get to choose! Sites specialize! Want a trillion clips of obscura? YouTube! Want gorgeous music videos and mini-docs? Vimeo! Want to stream movies to every box and handset under the sun? Netflix is terrific!
But no. Facebook, realizing it has at least a few daily minutes of the attention of the most attention-impoverished step in our species' history, wants to be everything. It wants to be Netflix, it wants to be your Xbox, it wants to be Foursquare, it wants to be Gmail—Facebook wants to be the internet. Will you let it?
It might be worth following
Sam Biddle on Twitter. I do, which sort of makes me his friend.