Facebook has changed before (remember their advertising model?), and with so many people using it, they will undoubtedly change again. As I asked yesterday, is Facebook really any different from the NSA, employers, the phone companies, etc.?
Perhaps better questions (just, perhaps) is why did Facebook so quickly change because a bunch of people complained online, though other recent protests did not stop the war in Iraq, the issues around VP Gore’s missed election, or even the bank bailouts that only seemed to promote publicly-support massive bonuses for the same bankers who did not show any support for struggling individuals losing their homes?
Perhaps mob protests and their effects are fickle? Perhaps online protests work? Perhaps people care more about their social networks than NIMBY social, national, and economic problems?
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps . . .