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deleo on Sept 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook First Half Revenue Hits $1.6 Billion

Why would you?

Well, for the same reason people already do it on vkontakte.ru:

- it's easy

- if you go fullscreen it doesn't matter where you're streaming from

- it lets you discover stuff you might like (what's your friend watching, etc...)

shoham on Sept 8, 2011 [–]

I'm not convinces of this last point -- what my friends and family like has a lot to do with what I like when we do it together moreso than what our actual similarities in taste are.

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