George Orwell analogies are running rampant with the announcement that Facebook will now suggest hashtags for status updates, and might go as far as to recommend actual topics of discussion.
As Natt Garun over at TNW News points out, "Facebook has suggested fairly fluffy topics. Assuming this feature makes it to a full rollout, my news feed is about to get 10 times worse come election season this fall. Unlike Twitter, you can't mute a hashtag - you deal with what Facebook surfaces based on trendiness."
OneCommand's Chris Ruben posted some screen shots of Ayn Rand's probable version of social media hell below:
Instances of nonhashtag status suggestions have already previously been reported.
With the advent of Facebook's new algorithms that determine what users are interested in based on the amount of time they spend looking at posts — even if they choose not to like or share said posts — we can possibly expect a very different kind of Facebook in the near future, for better or for worse.
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