Murdoch’s plan is to charge users to access content on all his news sites. Faced with massive losses across the whole of News Corp (a whopping £2bn net loss) he is looking defensive – and desperate.
So Facebook is turning into Twitter? Right listen very carefully, I shall say this only once: disable your Facebook account immediately and run for cover before they put all your profile content on display for everyone to see.
But hold on just a minute. In the words of another great drama queen, calm down dear.
In fact what Facebook are doing is changing their business model to include public content sharing, profile ‘fans’ and real-time search (these are the headline grabbers).
Is this a good thing?
I’ve read the Digital Britain report and before taking a well-earned lie down (245 pages!) I want to provide a quick reaction from a social (media) angle.
What I’m interested in is what it all means for us as a society, how we communicate, and what this spells for the advancement of social media.
It’s been a long week in British politics and I’ve been enjoying every minute of it. Finally after all these years there is some real debate, accountability and at least a degree of action.
I’ve been watching (and waiting) in earnest to see which party would be bravest in the social media space. It’s promising but there’s a long way to go.
As someone who believes 100% in the power and potential of Twitter from a social media perspective, Britney’s tweets totally depressed me.
