MySpace and Google tried to confront the Facebook plan for expansion. These two companies even performed together for some time, in order to prevent the attempts of Facebook to totally dominate the Internet. These companies have been trying to implement ideas that would allow users to content from various web pages and share with all other social services, not just with Facebook.
Social network MySpace, whose popularity quickly decreased, added Facebook Connect button to their pages.
Clicking on MySpace, Facebook Connect users receive information about all the things they “love” on Facebook, and the data is integrated into their page on MySpace.
It is estimated that MySpace with this move conceded defeat in the battle with Facebook, and instead decided to further combat their services connected with Facebook. MySpace no longer wishes to compare with Facebook. Instead they are trying to appear as a social entertainment site with lots of information about celebrities, new songs, popular musicians and other content related to the entertainment industry.
Google and Facebook have recently been in a battle over export Gmail contacts into Facebook. This led to a fiery exchange insults between the companies to the extent that both sides claim to exchange data with a list of contacts is not in proportion. Rumors are that Facebook wants to contest the Gmail service. It might be clear why the company introduced a protective policy for the profitable contact information.
Most users who do not care about their privacy will not think about the consequences of giving access to their e-mail addresses. This means that a company can get away with anything for an indefinite period. For Facebook, the possibility of analyzing e-mail addresses of its users will adopt another way to gather valuable private information.
No one can say that Google is a saint when it comes to collecting user data, but considering all the scandals about Facebook, it seems that the big G is still better choice. Also, everyone is just waiting for the day when Facebook will announce once again another way they can “mistakenly” misused datas of users.
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