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Re:Facebook, I want my friends back by dasil003 on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @06:32PM (#4695372)
Did you read my comment? I explicitly said I am not begrudging them the opportunity to make money however they want. If you want to quibble over the denotation of "conflict of interests" fine, let me put it this way:

It's not sustainable for Facebook to degrade the usefulness of their service in this way for a short-term cash gain. 15-20% throughput to fans is so low as to confound expectations, and I'm saying this will bite them ass.

Re:Facebook, I want my friends back by tomasien on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @08:55PM (#4695837)
A much fairer critique. The argument over conflict of interest isn't trivial, the true meaning of that phrase denotes something pretty serious.