What Facebook Really Wants - To Build a Separate Internet

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/09/what-facebook-really-wants.html

I agree with the author of this article when he says that what Facebook really wants is to build a separate internet.  He says "Initially, Facebook was just a place to post photographs and see which of your high-school classmates had gone to pot. Then it became a place for organizing political protests, and wasting time playing games. It’s grown and grown in all these ways. It gets credit from many for helping facilitate the Arab Spring, and it now hosts four per cent of all the photographs ever taken. Now, if Facebook gets its way, it’ll be where you read your news, find new songs, and watch video. It will have eaten a big chunk of the rest of the Internet". Unfortunately if this does come to fruition and Facebook gets what it wants, we will be the mercy of the creators of this social media site.