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 >-On whether the things developers contribute to the system are valuable >to us or notš. In my mind they are really only valuable if users want them >/ either because they value the self expression or drive engagement. If >they do neither, then I do not believe that applications writing to >Facebook is currently worth much --AND I believe that if they do neither >there are other ways for us to work with developers more efficiently to >get the value from the data they collect from users. >>> think it's quite possible that developers writing to the graph today >>drives no incremental engagement or information targeting value for us >>>l do think users appreciate the ability to share things and that >>>probably helps us somewhat, but I think users also like having the >>>ability to take their info out of Facebook and we're considering >>charging for that. By charging for distribution, we'd essentially be >>>building a way for users to access those features, but developers have >>to pay us for them. SWL::: I think we need to provide DLYD obviously, and you are right that some power-users do appreciate the ability to take data out in general / push it to other services.... I think this is something we can manage around. I do think it is basically zero cost to us to allow applications to write content on behalf of users, but we should just think of it as that - which is allowing apps to fulfill a user need... re: the distribution, I don't think we should under-weight distribution from apps, I just don't think we should over-weight it- and lI think that if the real value translation is apps publish data to Facebook because users want to publish data to Facebook, then we should do the right thing by users around creating good experiences vs. worrying about pushing 'traffic' back to apps (aka, go with snow-box type solutions for third party photos and pinterest pins rather than pushing the user out to the site Really what this boils down to is that I think developers are rational >business actors. They will not give us structured data which is actually >valuable to us unless users demand it. >Agreed SWL: AMEN >- Again, I think we just need to get away from thinking about a developer 'using' platform or not/ or that we can 'tax' platform as a whole. We >have a series of APIs, just like amazon web services, etcš the decision >to rely upon/use or not use any service we provide is really an independent business decision. I think that saying that in order to 4 CONFIDENTIAL FB-01389024