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Constine:

But that means you won’t have to visit Facebook or Twitter where you collide with what others create, diminishing the ambient intimacy they offer and turning them into ego-driven broadcast channels.

I disagree. Whilst personally I do think now my engagement with Facebook will climb again as I’ll have a nice, easy way to share on Facebook without using the terrible mobile app, which does make it egotistical, it also means my friends will more willingly share stuff and Facebook, which has been a bit of a crypt of late in terms of what my friends are sharing (they’ve all recently become employed and have cut right down on what they are willing to put online, whereas their activity on Twitter has remained constant), will become more fun again.

I’m glad this has happened - I hope it makes Facebook a place worth visiting again, rather than a chore of a website, full of desperate monetization techniques, [anti-]Social readers, annoying messages from semi-friends and blanket event invitations to stuff I don’t care about.