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by wonderwonder 3355 days ago
Facebook is an advertising platform, their main goal is to get new accounts and usage. They are going to get a lot of mileage with this via the API.

Developers will create useful and unexpected applications with this and in order to use the new apps you will need a facebook login.

It generates new users for them and helps to prevent someone else from stealing their user base.