As Social Media Competition Heats Up, Facebook Displays Palpable Aggression
by Vlad Deshkovich
Facebook (FB) has been the social media kingpin for the last several years, claiming to have hit 1 billion active users in late 2012. The lifeblood of social media is data: data about what you like to do, who you know, and even your sexual orientation. And Facebook drowns in data. Facebook knows who your real-life friends are, and based on how much you view their profiles, how much you interact with them. This "social graph" data is valuable, and Facebook knows this. Recently Facebook announced that it will no longer allow competing social networks to import this data. This is a long-overdue escalation of the social media wars, and one that will allow Facebook to hoard more of your data for its own purposes. read more »
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