Wow, Facebook is providing some RSS feeds. It’s opening up a little bit and many people applaud the effort. And yes, it’s cool to have them. There are feeds for notifications, posted items by friends, status updates, and maybe some more. I can subscribe to them and read them in my feed reader without visiting Facebook. Fine.
But is this a reason to become all excited about it? Isn’t Facebook a silo anymore? I think it still is. Exporting my contacts? No way. Importing them? Nope. Don’t get me wrong, though. Facebook has come a long way from a social network for students which required an email address with an .edu domain to the network it is today. But it is not open. Maybe I am expecting too much from it. Maybe its users don’t want or don’t care about portable social networks. Maybe.
