Interesting viewpoint. The difference is that in the village case, the information distribution was much more symmetric. People knew about you and you knew abo

Interesting viewpoint. The difference is that in the village case, the information distribution was much more symmetric. People knew about you and you knew about them, and you knew about each other's knowledge and presumably acted accordingly. So for instance, if being gay was going to be a problem in your village, you hid it well. With Facebook, they have all the information about you, and you don't even know what they know about you. So in the best case scenario, you are hoping that they are going to be a "benevolent dictator" with their asymmetric knowledge, and not exploit you.