Yeah I don't understand how this is such a huge deal. People get so up in arms about things Facebook does as if someone just reached through the screen and made a change to their personal computer. Facebook is a business that tries to make money. We knew Facebook would look for more ways to monetize more of their business and this is one of the most unobtrusive options.

So now users won't always see George Takei's latest post show up in their newsfeed. However, if it's so important they see his posts they can just go to his page. Doesn't strike me as a huge issue at all. Definitely not something that's going to create a mass exodus of the user base.

The article also says that they've been rolling back the amount of users these businesses reach for a while now. I haven't heard anyone make a single complaint about it yet.

I think at most, if stories like this are read by the general user base (which I doubt because it doesn't come in the form of an overdone really shitty meme), that they will bitch about the changes on Facebook, have friends also comment about how they think it's bullshit on Facebook, go to that friend's page and "like" some picture they posted, and go about their regular Facebook day.