As of a few minutes ago, Facebook removed their restriction on registration.
My first thought was, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”, but after a few minutes of thinking, this could go two ways. On one hand, students all over the world can retaliate and remove their accounts. According to Techcrunch’s article Facebook Just Launched Open Registrations, Facebook is anticipating for this.
They’ve also anticipated backlash from existing users who liked Facebook just fine as an exclusive club, thank you very much.
I’ve previously talked about Facebook becoming the new MySpace earlier and it seems like it’s actually happening. Who would of thought this would happen right after the recent happenings with Facebook.
Already, there is an Open Letter from Aaron Greenspan of Think Computers.
Now, on the other hand (yes, I have two hands), this could work in the favor for Facebook. More potential “users” to advertise to. Also, this would mean more ad revenue, more information they could use to make new products. With their release, they published a news blog “Welcome to Facebook, everyone.” stating their intentions. I found it funny on how hey have a page on [h]ow this expansion affects you..
So what now? What will happen? I personally don’t know. Many users have vowed to delete their accounts once this would happen. Many already have because of the news feeds.
All we can do is wait and see.
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