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Mark Zuckerberg believes that presenting differing personas to different audiences displays "a lack of integrity"[1] and thus Facebook is deliberately engineere

Mark Zuckerberg believes that presenting differing personas to different audiences displays "a lack of integrity"[1] and thus Facebook is deliberately engineered to encourage an individual to present their "true" self to all "friends" equally. [1]http://www.michaelzimmer.org/2010/05/14/facebooks-zuckerberg-having-two-identities-for-yourself-is-an-example-of-a-lack-of-integrity/ http://www.michaelzimmer.org/2010/05/14/facebooks-zuckerberg...

walterbell 11y ago
The act of observation changes the observed. There are many ways to observe. In whose interest does Facebook observe?
soperj 11y ago
Mark also has problems functioning in the real world.
bottled_poe 11y ago
> Mark Zuckerberg believes that... Any self-respecting person should not care what comes next.
- ssalazar 11y ago
  I guess it's edgy to dismiss celebrity outright, but Mark Zuckerberg is the steward of one of the largest social phenomena of our time, so I should think it matters a great deal what he believes--not necessarily because we should agree, but because of the potentially significant effects of those beliefs.
  - camillomiller 11y ago
    I agree. It's important to criticize him. Harshly. He's the harbinger of a change whose proportions are yet to be fully understand, but it's like we're all living guinea pigs of his experiment and happy to be that. I don't see how we can be fine with putting a self-declared mildly autistic little genius in charge of defining the nature of social interactions in the new millennium. "here's what I think relationships should be like", says such child playing with his own huge money-churning game.
liuhenry 11y ago
In contrast, WeChat (which is the closest equivalent to Facebook in China) has a number of features that are specifically tailored to allow for these different social contexts. For example, comments on a post are only visible to you if you're friends with the commenter, not just the OP. [1] [1] https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/three-moments-with-wechat-7deb56f11e0a https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/three-moments-with-wecha...

walterbell 11y ago

The act of observation changes the observed. There are many ways to observe. In whose interest does Facebook observe?

soperj 11y ago

Mark also has problems functioning in the real world.

bottled_poe 11y ago

> Mark Zuckerberg believes that... Any self-respecting person should not care what comes next.

ssalazar 11y ago
I guess it's edgy to dismiss celebrity outright, but Mark Zuckerberg is the steward of one of the largest social phenomena of our time, so I should think it matters a great deal what he believes--not necessarily because we should agree, but because of the potentially significant effects of those beliefs.
- camillomiller 11y ago
  I agree. It's important to criticize him. Harshly. He's the harbinger of a change whose proportions are yet to be fully understand, but it's like we're all living guinea pigs of his experiment and happy to be that. I don't see how we can be fine with putting a self-declared mildly autistic little genius in charge of defining the nature of social interactions in the new millennium. "here's what I think relationships should be like", says such child playing with his own huge money-churning game.

liuhenry 11y ago

In contrast, WeChat (which is the closest equivalent to Facebook in China) has a number of features that are specifically tailored to allow for these different social contexts. For example, comments on a post are only visible to you if you're friends with the commenter, not just the OP. [1] [1] https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/three-moments-with-wechat-7deb56f11e0a https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/three-moments-with-wecha...