Comments on: The Facebook experiment has failed?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:09:44 +0000

I think part of the “problem” with RSS is that it’s more useful for power-users who are willing to put the effort into configuring and curating feeds.

Friending people on Facebook is far, far easier for people without a lot of computer skill to set up, but you surrender control, which means you end up seeing that they want you to see rather than what you want to see.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Tue, 28 May 2013 13:41:17 +0000

There is a one-stop-shop method for aggregating content from just about any kind of network or site. It’s called RSS, and I use it daily for this site and tons of others.

And I understand why FB and the rest of the walled-garden crowd are turning their backs on it as fast as they can — it’s because they can’t control that experience and monetize it. That makes it effectively useless to them.