What Do Facebook Changes Mean To The Future?

        Most people are gonna probably say "Who cares?" or "Why?" but it's because they're thinking inside the box.
        The first and most obvious addition is the ability for web developers to place Like buttons on their pages. Devs can also add relevant feeds to their pages. What this does is connects Facebook to any page that has its software implemented in it.
        The next thing is Facebook looks at the internet as a graph of billions of connected links. At the moment, each page is at the mercy of the search engines, hyperlinks and word of mouth. What the guys at Facebook want to do is take all of your likes and match them up with your friends and people who like the same things you do. This will allow them to give you intelligent suggestions for places online you will like. And in the future, possibly introduce you to people like you. The internet will truly be socially networked.
        Another tool Facebook gives web developers is the ability to forego proprietary logins and use a visitor's stored Facebook information to login. When it's fully implemented, you will be able to login to (my estimate) hundreds of thousands of websites by only clicking "Facebook Connect". Mega convenient.
        Microsoft has partnered with the 'Book to roll out its long awaited http://docs.com/ which is a site (currently in beta) that allows you to import and export your Microsoft Office documents, share them with friends, post on Facebook, and edit from any computer with a browser. Very efficient and exciting for businesses and bloggers.
        One hesitation people have is whether or not the new processes will impose on their privacy in ways they don't approve of. Facebook has given an immediate response: "NO!" They say your privacy is of the utmost importance and you can fully customize your options, even to the point of opting out of the new features.
        I personally think this has the potential to be huge. I've already made a point of trying out what features I could and it seems really intuitive. For instance, have you ever said "If I could 'Like' this, I would"? That is the exact use case Facebook is looking to evoke.
        As I said in a conversation a few moments ago, I believe that Facebook may be onto something unprecedented; something that could push them to Google-heights.