Why We Disagree with The New York Times
I&#x27;m no huge Facebook fan - hardly use it these days, but...<p>These apps are just alternative Facebook clients. Don&#x27;t we _want_ a system where you can use different clients to access your own data?<p>If the problem is not trusting the client, well, that&#x27;ll be a problem for any such system, even some utopian fully open, distributed and federated social network - until you build an open source client yourself.