Free your Facebook page
Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave the web away to the masses. If it were to be commercialised by the likes of large corporates it’s growth would have been slower but I imagine just as vast. It would have been like the Web, but within a giant bubble with corporate branding which you had to pay (in one way or another) to enter and interact with.
Kind of like Facebook. Of course, the types of information found within Facebook is limited (for now) but there is still plenty to read, watch and learn from.
Facebook is growing into a concealed Web (behind a walled garden some say) wrapped in a brand. You even pay to enter. You hand over your personal details, photos, videos, news and gossip. Facebook can use this as they see fit - forever.
I would like to free my Facebook page and allow it to live independently on the web - keep the permissions so only your friends could see the page in it’s entirety, but allow it to link and be linked to by ‘outside’ pages.
Allow it to exist as other pages do ‘in the wild of the world wide web’.
You can kind of see this happening ever since Facebhook allowed Google to trawl through its members, here’s my Facebook page for example. However, to access the full version you still have to hand over your info as payment.
