Facebook Seems To Be Screwing Over LinkedIn (and others)
Do you see what’s happening? Facebook has created a rich network experience, largely on the backs of 3rd party apps like LinkedIn, and are now systematically creating native apps that copy the 3rd party apps functionality. That alone is a little low-down, but now it seems that as soon as Facebook’s copy app is working well enough, the original 3rd party app gets banned from the site. Wait! What? That’s not cool.
If a huge chunk of the human race wasn’t spending an increasing amount of time on Facebook, and happy to be there exclusively, this might not be such a big deal. But they are, and from banning apps like LinkedIn, and replicating their experience, I see no other explanation than that part of Facebook’s strategy is the complete annihilation of all the competition. Who is their competition? Everyone with a viable online business model.
Facebook will eventually peter out like AOL did in the 90's and Myspace 5 years ago. People will eventually go someplace else…the likelihood is that it will be a role playing game environment where your character(s) rather than you interact with others. A text feed with occasional pictures is NOT the future of humanity