Well, you don't need a Google account to consume content on YouTube (yet), but without a Facebook account and a decent number of friends, there would be no impulsive need to check your news feed on Facebook.
That was how Facebook used to work but now they're basically an RSS reader, the sources being either your friends published content or anything and anyone else for that matter.
Good call! I had not thought of FB as that, but you are right. I guess the next step for them is to then try to transition into a bank or some other enterprise that tracks and stores value. That usually seems to be the way these things go.
You leverage your facebook profile to gain access to properties, be given permissions or access, and your value is measurable by the input output of your usage.
Travel around the world right now and show either your government identification or a printed copy of your facebook profile and wouldn't it be weird if a young person you meet takes more credibility from that printed page than the validity and authority of your government id?
