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Honestly the investigation is a bit bogus. Also he is a public figure and a CEO you cannot expect the CEO to start ranting on random crap which could potential

Honestly the investigation is a bit bogus. Also he is a public figure and a CEO you cannot expect the CEO to start ranting on random crap which could potentially poorly reflect on his company. Could be that his PR person told him not to. Would you really expect a CEO of a billion-dollar company do put up pictures of himself getting totally wasted and drinking beer off the tits of some stripper they hired at a million dollar party? What about him posting his thoughts on Apple and his hatred of the iPad? That in itself could lead to bad blood between companies or investors, every word he writes publically must be cared for. The only thing is... People should keep THAT in mind. Don't write everything as public. When you post it online, assume no amount of privacy settings will protect it. Hell assume that even your weird alias can be tracked down. Don't post it online if you don't want anyone you don't know or don't like to read it.

randombit 16y ago
> Also he is a public figure and a CEO you cannot expect the CEO to start ranting on random crap which could potentially poorly reflect on his company. Ie, don't say anything on Facebook, ever, that you wouldn't mind your bosses, clients, competitors, suppliers, mom, local newspaper or local law enforcement all knowing about. Probably a good rule to follow for all of us.
takrupp 16y ago
I think people are slowly realizing that social networks are going to be open and WILL use your data for whatever their business model needs in order to make money. Its still going to take some time though for that to fully sink in. I think the vocal people who feel burned fit into the early adopter category. I was on Facebook when it was only in a handful of schools and it was an amazing tool. At that time, it was well understood that your info was locked down to people outside your network. Now these Facebook dinosaurs (who overlap a lot with the tech crowd) feel lied to because things changed. That beautiful network where you could share personal moments with friends is gone. Expectations were set and then dashed. This pissed me off, and, while even though it is only a vocal minority now, a lot of other people too. Even though it sucks, I'm only on Linkedin now. I knew when I joined it was an open platform and anything I put up there would be viewed by current and future employers, which I'm okay with because that was my expectation. Facebook is trying to share people's data in an open way, akin to Linkedin, its just that the data people put up there was meant only to be shared with people that they knew, not for instance, the HR department of the company you are interviewing with.

randombit 16y ago

> Also he is a public figure and a CEO you cannot expect the CEO to start ranting on random crap which could potentially poorly reflect on his company. Ie, don't say anything on Facebook, ever, that you wouldn't mind your bosses, clients, competitors, suppliers, mom, local newspaper or local law enforcement all knowing about. Probably a good rule to follow for all of us.

takrupp 16y ago

I think people are slowly realizing that social networks are going to be open and WILL use your data for whatever their business model needs in order to make money. Its still going to take some time though for that to fully sink in. I think the vocal people who feel burned fit into the early adopter category. I was on Facebook when it was only in a handful of schools and it was an amazing tool. At that time, it was well understood that your info was locked down to people outside your network. Now these Facebook dinosaurs (who overlap a lot with the tech crowd) feel lied to because things changed. That beautiful network where you could share personal moments with friends is gone. Expectations were set and then dashed. This pissed me off, and, while even though it is only a vocal minority now, a lot of other people too. Even though it sucks, I'm only on Linkedin now. I knew when I joined it was an open platform and anything I put up there would be viewed by current and future employers, which I'm okay with because that was my expectation. Facebook is trying to share people's data in an open way, akin to Linkedin, its just that the data people put up there was meant only to be shared with people that they knew, not for instance, the HR department of the company you are interviewing with.