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In Facebook’s early days, everything you put on the site was shared with your friends. So it was not “private, personal, info” but rather the opposite — informa

In Facebook’s early days, everything you put on the site was shared with your friends. So it was not “private, personal, info” but rather the opposite — information that users wanted to publicize widely. I have never put anything on Facebook that I care whether Mark Zuckerberg reads or not. It would be weird and creepy, for sure, if he was looking at pictures of my baby, but I willingly shared those with over a thousand people so am happy to share with one more.

justboxing 8y ago
> So it was not “private, personal, info” but rather the opposite — information that users wanted to publicize widely SSN is not private, personal info? I've never met anyone online or offline who wanted to publicize their SSN widely. Oh wait... that LifeLock dude.... https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/ https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/
- wgerard 8y ago
  SNS, not SSNs. SNS almost certainly refers to either: 1) Student numbers 2) Screen names (like for AIM)
- yayadarsh 8y ago
  SNS is meant to mean SN's, or "screennames". This (now-outdated) term refers to messenger accounts (AIM/ICQ) in the pre-Facebook world.
michaelbuckbee 8y ago
This isn't meant to call you out specifically but I've seen others echo similar sentiments of "I only put what I want on FB so it's no big deal privacy wise". What's troubling about FB is the _other_ implicit information they (and the other large social apps) passively collect about you. Unless you're using a particularly effective ad/privacy blocker you're also sharing all the data about every site you've visited that has a FB like button. Also, separate from you and your data, FB has a tremendous graph of all the contacts, etc who have you as a contact. Collectively, this gives them a much greater reach and ability to make inferences than just what you directly share.
gowld 8y ago
> shared with your friends. The quoted conversation is about Zuck volunteering to share information to someone who is NOT their friends.

justboxing 8y ago

> So it was not “private, personal, info” but rather the opposite — information that users wanted to publicize widely SSN is not private, personal info? I've never met anyone online or offline who wanted to publicize their SSN widely. Oh wait... that LifeLock dude.... https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/ https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/

wgerard 8y ago
SNS, not SSNs. SNS almost certainly refers to either: 1) Student numbers 2) Screen names (like for AIM)
yayadarsh 8y ago
SNS is meant to mean SN's, or "screennames". This (now-outdated) term refers to messenger accounts (AIM/ICQ) in the pre-Facebook world.

michaelbuckbee 8y ago

This isn't meant to call you out specifically but I've seen others echo similar sentiments of "I only put what I want on FB so it's no big deal privacy wise". What's troubling about FB is the _other_ implicit information they (and the other large social apps) passively collect about you. Unless you're using a particularly effective ad/privacy blocker you're also sharing all the data about every site you've visited that has a FB like button. Also, separate from you and your data, FB has a tremendous graph of all the contacts, etc who have you as a contact. Collectively, this gives them a much greater reach and ability to make inferences than just what you directly share.

gowld 8y ago

> shared with your friends. The quoted conversation is about Zuck volunteering to share information to someone who is NOT their friends.