Facebook is mainstream

Media that is.  And not in a good way.  In the “we control the channel and use it for our benefit” way. Veritasium did a great job of explaining what they are doing and why it’s bad in this video:

Although some are distracted by the wrapper that Facebook puts around our content, there is clearly an opportunity for a social platform that lets me follow who I want and gives me the full stream without filtering.  Maybe that’s what twitter is for after all?