Facebook Blowing It by being greedy with your content!

Ok now, this is where I think Facebook is making a big mistake. I invite all of you to take a look at my public Facebook group “The Retro Playground Group Forum” , but first I want you to go ahead and log out of Facebook. Once you are logged out of your Facebook account go to my group’s Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/groups/retroplayground and tell me what you see. You do realize that my group is supposed to be a public group where anyone can view it’s content but only have to join the group to make posts to the group’s wall right? The problem is that within the last year Facebook has become increasingly greedy with your so called “public” content and they do not want you to share it with anybody outside of Facebook. As a matter of fact if you looked at my public group’s home page while logged out you would have seen that Facebook is currently blocking (hiding) all of my group’s posts on the group’s main page. (home page). I believe that they are doing this to try and get more people to join Facebook but with Facebook being the largest and most popular website on the internet I also find it very annoying and underhanded what they are doing to our groups and pages content by hording all of our content it and keeping it all to themselves. They are deceiving us by telling us that a public group’s content will be visible to anybody. That may have been the case previously but something more recently has made them change their minds on the matter and as per usual they have decided to try and keep it a big secret. Many people have been using the Facebook groups to offer their website’s a public forum of sorts where they can easily communicate with their members. As a matter of fact some people feel that Facebook groups have made most traditional forum software obsolete. That is all fine and dandy but the problem I am having with all of this is knowing how hard it is to get somebody to join your community if they can not first view some of your community’s content to see what you are discussing in the group/community. This puts us in a bit of a predicament. Now we have to consider possibly going back to using our old outdated forum software that does not do half of the things that Facebook groups can do but at least we can have control over our own content and decide who we want to share it with. Another problem though is that most people do not want to even leave Facebook anymore as they have become rather comfortable here over the years and feel little to no desire to go outside of Facebook to register a new account on some small website. So basically it will be the death of our small websites if we decide to leave mother Facebook. Does this all sound a bit familiar to you? it should because bigger companies like Walmart and Meijer have done the same thing to small business owners across the world. They have snuffed them out. It is a ruthless business strategy and it works. So far Facebook has done this to Yahoo and MySpace. Facebook has made them both a memory. Who’s next? Google? Apparently Facebook will not be happy until everybody in the entire world has a Facebook account and is logged in viewing our content. The problem is that it is not their content that people are viewing, it is ours.