Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday announced radical changes to the popular social network.



Having already released a host of reforms earlier in the week, a move many analysts believed was a direct result of competitor Google releasing their social network publicly, Zuckerberg announced in his keynote address at Facebook annual developers convention that there would be major changes to the way people share and tell their stories with an emphasis on progressive updates built over time and history of facebook use, a feature they call time lines.

Furthermore facebook announced major deals with a number of third party companies such as music service Spotify and news giant Washington Post to provide applications allowing users to view news, listen to music and watch movies while still on Facebook.

To compliment these applications Facebook announced the introduction of the verbs to the iconic "like" button making it now read "watched this" or "cooked that" or "listened to that". All of these new changes, to be rolled out in the coming few weeks, allow us to be in one central place to access all our information and entertainment and although the thought of having news about the battle of Libya and Aunty Mable's cats in one site may be tempting it does ask serious questions about Facebook, and its market partners, intentions.

With these new changes they are not only attempting to monopolies your internet experience but also require you to give more information about yourself to a company not well known for its high privacy agenda.

No doubt these changes are exciting and have thrown a gauntlet down to the young gun slinging Google Plus but only time will tell if they are well received, especially with the word on the street often negative over its most recent changes.

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