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Re:The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL by rmc on Sunday March 10, 2013 @12:50PM (#5352512)
Additionally many people share links (funny and otherwise) through Facebook. You can break out of Facebook by clicking on a link someone posts/

Part of the benefit of Facebook is that it's on the WWW.

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Re:The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL by pjbrunet on Sunday March 10, 2013 @01:22PM (#5352624)
Sure but a few problems with that:

a) WARNING you are leaving safety, are you sure you want to go out into the DANGEROUS Internet? Your friends will miss you! How about some Soma instead? b) Censorship c) They have the power to turn off hyperlinks at any time--like YouTube has already done.

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Re:The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL by billeh on Monday March 11, 2013 @07:47AM (#5356094)
Is that really a symptom of Facebook deliberately trying to wall its users in, or just that the the majority of its userbase really would get phished/infected/anally-probed without the warnings?

Then again .. I didn't know YouTube did that ..

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Re:The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL by nwzpaperman on Sunday March 10, 2013 @09:32PM (#5354397)
Organic social shares drive real traffic, but everything I've spent on fb ads has been a complete loss and grossly underperformed all other internet mediums that I've tested.

Someone needs to get the goal posts moving over there...or wait, we have another newsfeed update for better photos --ads.

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