One-Stop Squatting.
You don't have to go anywhere else, FB will be your cyber-Barcalounger where you will crowdsource your own information and make all secondary source verification moot. Who needs Twitter, when everything can come to you instantly. And eventually, your subscription to the New York Times will become synonymous with Facebook and maybe in meatspace, we'll all be able to get news installments on CDs instead of newsprint.
Facebook has partnered with The New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic to start testing a program that would see the news sites provide their content on Facebook in addition to on their own pages,The New York Times is reporting. Facebook, which has been engaging in talks for some time with at least six news outlets, would like to start testing the service "in the next several months," according to the Times.
Facebook's goal is to keep users on its site, browsing forever. Mark Zuckerberg's company makes most of its revenue from advertising and, because it owns so much data about its users, it is able to target those ads at exactly the people an advertiser wants to reach. By hosting news content, Facebook will be able to charge even more for advertising alongside the kind of popular, highly shareable stories that publications like The New York Times, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic are so good at creating.