&gt; Twitter recently changed “favorites” to “likes” and swapped out the star for a heart. I’m pretty used to this from Tumblr, so I was surprised by the amount of pushback. Until I saw someone make a brilliant point (which I neglected to save a link to): these tiny changes bother us because they remind us that even our very personal spaces are owned by someone else.<p>This is, in so many words, the main argument against the cloud and against web apps in general.<p>Although, with regards to things changing under your feet, even with traditional self-hosted software, a pretty big issue becomes that you must either upgrade eventually, suffer security bugs due to something being dropped from support, or (if you are using only open-source software) become a maintainer for every single piece of software you care about...