Does Facebook Platform Matter Anymore?

The short answer is no. Short summary:

• Facebook platform does not care about their developers community.
• "Facebook API" is not backward compatible. They deprecate methods every week.
• Facebook platform is overregulated and unfair to a "small guy".

At the end of the day they will eat their own lunch. It means that they will eventually start to loose money with bad advertising CPMs. Or they already started, didn't they? Thanks god, we (developers) have OpenSocial.

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