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FACEBOOK ABOUT TO BECOME THE NEXT iTUNES?

Soooo – did you notice that Facebook recently changed up their Homepage (if not click the pic above to read the full article) and tweaked the basic functionality of the Newsfeeds (i.e. the way we all “maco” people’s business)? Are you wondering why this happened, while trying to get used to the “new” Facebok (again) and has it even occurred to you that all Facebook’s sudden changes recently might be part of a master plan? Well if you’re an artist/entrepreneur like me (or just a supporter of the arts or a music lover in general), then you’ll be happy to know this is GREAT NEWS! Soon we’ll be selling music on FB, similarly to the way it’s done in iTunes!

Okay, so I stumbled on to all this just now, when I was reading a post on Jermaine Dupri’s blog. JD re-posted the above article about Facebook launching their new “music gifting service”, which, broken down to layman’s terms means Facebook is about to make people start paying for music (again – click the pic for the full article). in the end, it all adds up to more possible profits for the artists, writers, producers, etc., and a more extensive network in which to have product available for sale! *excited dance*

Remember the Free Gifts app that we’ve all used at one time to send a “heart”, a “birthday cake” or some other fun “e-gift” to a friend? How about SuperPoke?

Well NOW Facebook is about to set up an app that will “allow” you to “give” all your FB friends music mp3s. I’m sure eventually it will extend to videos, movies and TV shows as well, once the concept catches on.

Knowing how internet corporations work, they’ll probably start disabling all the FREE apps people use daily right now, meaning that eventually the only kind of “gift” you can send will be one of the aforementioned ones – thus more money in their pocket (and mine by extension lol).

Why is Facebook launching all this NOW after having so much free-ness for so long you wonder?

Check out the article below (again, click the pic for the full article), in which Myspace CEO Owen Van Natta “basically conceded defeat in the race with Facebook to be the world’s largest social network”.

Did you fully get that? Facebook is now officially the world’s LARGEST Social Media network (with numbers to match – check the graphs that accompany the article).

Okay, so now that FB is literally the “biggest” Social Networking site on Planet Earth, it makes sense for them to use that to their advantage. And THUS – mp3 sales!!!

I for one am looking forward to being able to offer my music to my nearly 4000 FB profile friends and 1900-plus FB Fans all my music in mp3 form instead of having to post third party links.

The question now is: what is Facebook going to be asking of the music providers (artist, labels, production companies, etc) in return for giving us access to this service? Also, are they going to favour Major Record Companies over Independents such as myself, or is this service going to be available to ALL artists/labels GLOBALLY?

Hmmm – can’t wait to find out. *twiddles thumbs* In the meantime, Mista Vybe (soon-to-be Facebook salesperson) outttttttt!!!

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