Many of you have been annoyed by Facebook’s myriad of constant changes, often hampering the site functionality for many. Well seems that Facebook has been trying to intertwine the whole web into Facebook itself, and vice versa. With the development of the Open Graph API, any online website can feature Facebook-like functionality.
Rather than go on Facebook and make a Fan Page, regular sites running the API will essentially be featured in a person’s Live Feed. A site once made with the API, will have a fan box placed on Facebook proper.
Once you become a fan of a site running the API all action on their site (updates, wall posts, anything, etc.) appears on your Feed. Great for finding the proper demographic for companies trying to make sales and reach out to their target audience. Now you don’t have to necessarily have to become a fan of a page, for your interactions on that site to appear on your Feed.
“Even if the site/brand doesn’t have a Facebook Fan Page, elements created on this page by other visitors will be sent back to Facebook and placed on their Walls or in their Streams, etc.” says MG Siegler of TechCrunch.
There you have it folks, the internet little by little, with the advent of social networking can also be the demise of some peoples’ privacy. Since Facebook Connect will more than likely be necessary to sign-up on these sites it could be a great thing for some, negative for others. So if you don’t want your wife to know you have a porn addiction you may need to see if your favorite site runs the Facebook API.
Expect more issues (hopefully not) from site updates and the like from Facebook; since the Open Graph API won’t be fully functioning until the second quarter of 2010.
Peace.
-Sha’ul
so i wonder if this means even if u dont log onto a site but comment on it, and they add it to your feed; are u gonna start gettin bombarded with dumb inbox messages? i hope not. even worse? wall posts.
By: Sha'ul on October 29, 2009
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