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Additionally many people share links (funny and otherwise) through Facebook. You can break out of Facebook by clicking on a link someone posts/

Part of the benefit of Facebook is that it's on the WWW.

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Sure but a few problems with that:

a) WARNING you are leaving safety, are you sure you want to go out into the DANGEROUS Internet? Your friends will miss you! How about some Soma instead? b) Censorship c) They have the power to turn off hyperlinks at any time--like YouTube has already done.

Is that really a symptom of Facebook deliberately trying to wall its users in, or just that the the majority of its userbase really would get phished/infected/anally-probed without the warnings?

Then again .. I didn't know YouTube did that ..

Organic social shares drive real traffic, but everything I've spent on fb ads has been a complete loss and grossly underperformed all other internet mediums that I've tested.

Someone needs to get the goal posts moving over there...or wait, we have another newsfeed update for better photos --ads.

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