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Posts from the past serve the purpose of integrity. When you delete the old posts because employees, disgruntled for some reason, keep finding gold there, you c
by nbabitskiy 8y ago
Posts from the past serve the purpose of integrity. When you delete the old posts because employees, disgruntled for some reason, keep finding gold there, you compromise your integrity, and anyone treats your words as if they're going to be taken back tomorrow.
That's exactly what we observe now.
- underwater 8y agoContext matters. Facebook from 2009 is a different company to 2019. When Google was 10x the size of Facebook and preparing to launch Google+ the battle cry of "Carthage must be destroyed" was empowering against something that seemed like an existential threat to the company. Take it out of that time and place and its aggressive and creepy. How many companies would make historical all-company emails accessible and searchable by future staff? Doing so means that companies now need to treat absolutely every internal email as potentially public and run it through an PR filter. That's a huge cost for a company that wants to move fast.
- nbabitskiy 8y agoThere's no need to goodfaithsplain Zuck. Nobody cares. As a Russian proverb goes, "we're not gonna christen babies with him". You fuck up, you own it. Owning mistakes gives a hope, that you will learn from them. >> How many companies would make historical all-company emails accessible and searchable by future staff? I don't know. Most of them? It's not really that hard...