http://www.socialstartups.com/2007/07/15/facebook-the-platform-a-nightmare/ All that's new in the social computing space. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.socialstartups.com/2007/07/15/facebook-the-platform-a-nightmare/comment-page-1/#comment-716 Ben Morgan Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:14:13 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/?p=24#comment-716 No I do not trust facebook. As a application designer I will agree that facebook provides great freedom for creating and regulating your own data but it does it at the expense of lionizing it's own platform. I think facebook is out there to suck up all the 21th century post-industrial information capital it can get, while placing up the a front that it is all inclusive and that it reserves all it's rights to it's users and developers. I think the creaters of Facebook have huge profit motives like myspace, and will ultimately suck all the developers intellectual capital. I know this is a big claim but I think it is warranted. Facebook is striving for the top platform on the basis of it's inclusivity; everyone who invests their intellectual labor onto facebooks platform only reifies support for facebooks platform. If all the developers pulled out their labor then the platform would collapse. Why else would facebook create a clause in the developers application that prevents developers from pilot running their applications via a different host? This seems like an elaborate attempt to tie developers to facebook. In this way facebook seems to be profiting off of the all inclusivity of post-industrial capitalism itself. Facebook has no control yet all control. Because of this I can not trust facebook No I do not trust facebook. As a application designer I will agree that facebook provides great freedom for creating and regulating your own data but it does it at the expense of lionizing it’s own platform. I think facebook is out there to suck up all the 21th century post-industrial information capital it can get, while placing up the a front that it is all inclusive and that it reserves all it’s rights to it’s users and developers. I think the creaters of Facebook have huge profit motives like myspace, and will ultimately suck all the developers intellectual capital. I know this is a big claim but I think it is warranted. Facebook is striving for the top platform on the basis of it’s inclusivity; everyone who invests their intellectual labor onto facebooks platform only reifies support for facebooks platform. If all the developers pulled out their labor then the platform would collapse. Why else would facebook create a clause in the developers application that prevents developers from pilot running their applications via a different host? This seems like an elaborate attempt to tie developers to facebook. In this way facebook seems to be profiting off of the all inclusivity of post-industrial capitalism itself. Facebook has no control yet all control. Because of this I can not trust facebook

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