Facebook Wants To Be Your Only Log-In: What Is Facebook Connect and Why Should We Care?

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Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to "connect" their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site.

Features of Facebook Connect include:

Trusted Authentication

Friend Access Real Identity

Dynamic Privacy

Advantages of Facebook Connect

1. Enables us to interact with people we like on the site interacting with stuff our friends like on other sites.

2. There is going to be more information available.

Disadvantages of Facebook Connect

1. Facebook has turned us into “Emotional Investors”.

2. Facebook has changed our social DNA, making us more accustomed to oppeness.

3. Advertisers are able to strike you in a more deeply level.

Is Facebook Using Us?

Facebook wants to be your only log-in because it wants to start integrating media, and through your preferences create an advertising

monopoly.

Facebook has found the way to use our social interest in order to make a new form of Marketing and Advertising Monopoly integrating different types of media.

To Connect or Not To Connect..?

It's like an exchange Facebook gives us social life contact while we give Facebook new ideas for business through our common

preferences.

Sources

Fletcher, Dan. "Friends Without Borders." Time 31 May 2010: 32. General OneFile. Web. 2 Sept. 2010. (Slides: 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).

Morin, Dave. “Announcing Facebook Connect.” Facebook Developer Blog. 09 May 2008. 02 Sept. 10. (Slides: 3, 4).