Facebook is going to far:

 Josh says:

“Yesterday I posted a link to my Flickr page on my friend’s wall on Facebook and when I hit return, a pop-up appeared that had altered the message to be an ad for Flickr and how great it is. While I  would recommend Flickr to anyone, I just didn’t like having my message altered. So I deleted it before I sent it. That may not be indicative of how other users will feel about this new service, but I didn’t like it so much.”

Facebook is better (for now): 

 Jen says:

“I like these Digg-like features provided by Facebook’s Beacon platform. For example, the other day a friend’s status announced he was “excited about the upcoming Kaiju Big Battel.” When I asked this normally Facebook-shy friend about his status, he told me that it was an option on Ticketmaster after he purchased Big Battel tickets. What was interesting about that interaction was that Ticketmaster did not put itself front and center of the message or the status update – the event was the activity on Facebook. The same is true for the new Facebook options on TheNewYorkTimes.com. You can post an article to your Facebook profile, and friends can comment. The content becomes the hero, the content or cultural brand becomes the vessel for content. Either way, I will use both sites more often now.

BY JEN

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