[sofifonfek]

It seems like a more or less reasonable solution but it defeats the whole point which is to use and abuse users' data and circle of facebook friends.

If you remember several years back when it was discovered that ads had become inefficient because people learned to filter them out after being exposed too much for too long but that if the ad came from a member of the social circle it bypassed this filter and has the potential go viral, which pretty much gave birth to so-called viral marketing.

Well it seems facebook is the realm of a combination of viral marketing (trying to pretend not to be an ad in disguise) and spammer strategy (a large enough number of potential marks insure some will fall for it). IINM this is what facebook currently pushes for in a renewed attempt to monetize their userbase.

This seems like a reasonable solution I said, because the real problem with facebook connect is that it links real world identities (or rather facebook profiles which is close enough to real world identities) to online activities that users don't necessarily want the world to know about. And while facebook uses this to collect even more data about its users, the users have no control over it

tl;dr: the real underlying problem of facebook connect is the same old "if you're not paying for it, then you're the product being sold".