Is this what we can expect in the future.

[Max Power]

You are allowed to have opinions, and people are allowed to express opinions about those opinions. For instance, Mr. Charles evidently believes that the issues in this thread are paltry, and the opinions expressed are out of proportion with the situation. Pufu is supporting that assertion. I don't see what is causing problems here. On topic discussion does not necessarily mean escalating, recirculating pointless debates. I think the supposition that something is rather beneath heated discussion is a valid point.

[DM]

come into these threads and do not add anything useful to the discussion.

I dont think there is anything useful to add to a "discussion" about the game having links to its community social sites built in?

Clearly BIS thinks its a good idea, and judging by the amount of activity on said social sites it is. So I doubt they're going to change it because a handful of people dont like having facebook or twitter ICONS on their menu screen...

[Dwarden]

you can expect us to use in future what we deem important to support or use ...

you simple can't expect us to ignore the social sites, mobile devices, touchscreen era or similar ...

but we will try do it in way that it's not going to annoy You that much or at all ...

we will try to make these 'features' be worthwhile and useful ...

just like with BIForum and our websites ...

[Tekgun2]

Nice answer, I do appreciate that due to the popularity of certain social networks it is almost unavoidable for companies to make use of the access they can give to the user base. I just don't like the way it was the first thing I saw when booting up the game, like I said it just seemed a little tacky.
Maybe adding these features in the menu system would be a cleaner way of doing it.