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Stephen Downes

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Facebook is going in exactly the wrong direction as it closes off RSS feeds out of Facebook accounts into the world. Scott Gilbertson writes, "we'll miss Newsfeed RSS is it provided a tantalizing glimpse of how fun Facebook could be when we really did have control over the experience." Why? He opines, "the Facebook platform and all its blustering about privacy end up looking more like a smokescreen designed to make your data available to an advertising platform that will (so the site desperately hopes) enable Facebook to one day make money."

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