The People vs Facebook

In the past few weeks, Facebook has subcomed to change it’s terms, policies, and layout amid pressure from it’s users. The end users (you and me), complained that Facebook’s live news feed didn’t not post anything relevant and was too twitter-like. But why did they listen to their users? Why not just ignore them and go with gut instinct? Isn’t that what drives the web 2.0 movement and entrepenuership? I believe it was a bad idea to give users a say in their business model decisions. Now that public say has won, the Facebook coperates have been pinned down by the public and will forever will have to second guess their decision. Why? I like to think of the following reasoning: you give a homeless alcoholic money everyday until one day you decide to give him food, and he responds “wtf? I want my money I dont want food.  I want beer”