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The Half Truths of Mark Zuckerberg
- DrSprout 16y agoI believe that they haven't intentionally changed privacy settings, but in the frequent privacy overhauls it's inevitable that they break stuff and throw people's data out to the world. They need to stop thinking about innovating and thinking about how to stabilize. Facebook was perfect from a user perspective... 3 years ago. Innovation is at this point antithetical to the social web. It's why Craigslist, despite a no-frills interface, remains dominant. Stability and user control are primary. Facebook is unstable (in the sense that its interface changes every other month) to the point of being completely uncontrollable by the user.
- jkincaid 16y agoYou think they unintentionally made the default setting for updates 'everyone'?
- DrSprout 16y agoNot for me. For new users. Have I misread something? I find it hard to fault them for changing defaults, the big thing is my settings haven't changed. (But again, some peoples' settings are bound to have been corrupted or mis-imported during Facebook's quarterly overhauls.)
- JangoSteve 16y agoI agree with everything after your first sentence completely.
- SlyShy 16y agoWell, if removing privacy isn't an attempt to monetize then I have to wonder, what are they doing to monetize? ;)
- dsil 16y agoSelling hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising.
- blhack 16y agoThis video really really made me lose some faith in Zuck. I'm sorry, but if you really were passionate about people's privacy, you wouldn't sound like you were reading a pre-written script about it. What they (he) needs to do is publicly apologize (and not just simply vocalize a script) to the users.
- marcusbooster 16y agoWhat's a P.R. guy to do, eh? It's imperative for Zuck to speak to users directly and put a face on the company, but alas he's young and not the most media-savvy guy. Do you really think that addressing a topic this big and this personal, that Facebook would not have some kind of script looked over by writers and lawyers? Of course not, but you'd like to feel as though it's "off the cuff" and "sincere". But then again, "off the cuff" means you haven't really thought about the issue fully. It's a tough gig, you can see why companies hire spokespeople - so you can believe James Earl Jones sincerely watches CNN.
- blhack 16y ago>But then again, "off the cuff" means you haven't really thought about the issue fully. hmmmm, I actually disagree. I recently moved to a new neighborhood, one that I absolutely love. If you were to ask me about it, I wouldn't have to look up reasons why I like it...I would just tell you. The reason I can do this is because I think about it all the time. For something as important as the privacy of 400 Million people, I would hope that Zucky is thinking about it all the time...he should be able to answer questions about facebook privacy in the same way that a startup founder should be able to give somebody an elevator pitch without stopping to think about it. The way it is now (scripted, obviously so), it looks like this isn't something that facebook really cares about.
- CGamesPlay 16y agoAccording to this article your options when deciding what to do are: be completely introspective and derive a conclusion purely from internal feelings, or be completely reflexive and derive a conclusion solely from external information.