Facebook Takes Over The World

Some depressing reading. I've been saying for a while that Facebook has basically "reinvented television", the stream fed to passive consumers, reflexively channel surfing or hitting a "like" button like pigeons in a Skinner Box.

But I hadn't realized that it's quite as bad as this. Read these excellent articles from The Awl :

• Content Distributed  
• Territory Annexed
• The Facebook Proposition 
• The Next Internet is TV