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This meeting isn't an all hands, it's an employee-driven open forum. It was schduled because there has been interest around the public's recent reaction to fac
by Sam_Odio 16y ago
This meeting isn't an all hands, it's an employee-driven open forum. It was schduled because there has been interest around the public's recent reaction to facebook's privacy decisions. I don't expect any announcemets to be made, just a discussion to be had.
One lesson I learned from the internal response: Many Facebook engineers read HN. Your opinions are being heard.
- iamdave 16y agoBut are they listening? Hearing me and listening to me aren't the same. Just go look at all those groups "We want a dislike" button, obviously the users want something and Facebook just sat back and went "Uh. No"
- derefr 16y agoListening to someone and deciding to agree with them aren't the same, either. Parents listen to their children asking for unhealthy foods, and then deny it to them. Facebook knew that a dislike button would hurt their userbase sociologically just as much as any HFCS-laced soda would physiologically (it would allow people a quick, automatable way to bully others, it was shown when a closed test was attempted to be taken far out of proportion by the recipient compared to the signaler's intent, etc.) That's not to say that Facebook's current privacy attitude is "healthy" for its users (and it's not to say that it's unhealthy, either); it's simply that Facebook has to consider their userbase as a society with interactions, which can't be swayed by the aggregate opinion of self-interested individuals who aren't thinking about how what they want will affect others.
- jfager 16y agoDidn't Facebook already have its come-to-Jesus moment with the Beacon fiasco? I have a hard time buying the idea that FB could come out of that without an ingrained institutional awareness of privacy issues but now, with this, be willing to listen and change.
- iamelgringo 16y agoThanks, Sam.