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Facebook held its annual developer conference this week. In it, CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked little about Facebook in its current format - possibly an admission that static social networks have reached their feature peak - but instead outlined his vision for a terrifying future.

Its big play was Virtual Reality social spaces - cleverly called Spaces. You can transport your Nintendo Mii-like avatar into a place where there are other people, and you can chat, share pics, play some basic games, and not much else. Which basically sounds like another awful disconnecting bubble that people should avoid.

Also, mind reading. Apparently, that's something Facebook - a company that already has unprecedented access to and information on our lives - wants to get into next. Admittedly for now the plan is only for typing, but imagine the value if Zuckerberg & Co. knew what you were thinking, perhaps even before you'd fully realised you were thinking it? Far off speculation perhaps. But scary nonetheless.

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