One of the biggest Facebook’s feature that’s unveiled at F8 yesterday was the Opengraph API.
What is the Opengraph API? It’s a feature in Facebook that allows Developers to create apps that publish actions on this kind of format: User action Object on App here’s some example:
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Facebook also makes it possible for developers to automates those sharing process. Trough API calls, developers can automatically post users actions on their apps to Facebook’s timeline, tickers, and feeds. This is very exciting for Developers , Publishers, and Content Creators because this will definitely drive sharing explosion between Facebook users.
This is why some pundits believe that Facebook is way ahead of Google+ and other social networks. “While all the competitors were busy making button, Facebook was busy making the button obsolete.” says MG Siegler.
Now my question, since many of user actions would be published on Facebook, would user really gives up their online privacy? Is online privacy is dead? Or there’s actually never such thing like online privacy? This is a big gamble by Mark Zuckerberg. Will users abandon Facebook immediately when they start seeing such actions posted automatically? or else, will users start seeing the benefits of such sharing, since interesting stuff comes their way automatically.
For years Facebook has actually teach us to abandon online privacy. These days we’re seeing people praying on Facebook, uploading silly drunken photograph, yelled at each others on Facebook, having an intense word war on Facebook comments, sharing private stories on Facebook, etc. Would this OpenGraph be the deep stab to online privacy, so that now we can declare that online privacy has died? Seeing Facebook history, and how it has brought us here, I’m afraid, the answer would be “Yes, online privacy has died”
comics, courtesy of The Joy of Tech






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