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I think Zuckerberg really misunderstands the importance of privacy to people. Zuckerberg says having more than one identity "is an example of a lack of integrit

I think Zuckerberg really misunderstands the importance of privacy to people. Zuckerberg says having more than one identity "is an example of a lack of integrity." This implies that wanting to selectively show only pieces of yourself to certain groups is a "lack of integrity." Yet that assertion is laughably false as we all do this very thing every day. The job interview scenario proves this and it's only one of many scenarios in which you carefully include or omit aspects of your online identity to influence the perception others have about you. This is just human nature. Call it social politics, call it whatever you want, but human beings are not profile pages and will never be. Facebook should be working with me to help manage my online identity, instead of acting like my privacy concerns aren't real.

awj 15y ago
Yeah, I'm in the midst of discovering the horror of having my parents/extended family on Facebook. I now have to filter all of my dumb comments against "will mom call me to see if I'm ok" and stupid jokes have to be checked for grandma-appropriateness. No one presents the same face to the entire world. If Facebook really wants to be a bigger part of my online/social experience, they'll acknowledge and start acting on this fact.
- Lagged2Death 15y ago
  >If Facebook really wants to be a bigger part of my online/social experience, they'll acknowledge and start acting on this fact. Well, maybe. If Facebook gets your parents and grandparents all playing Farmville, but loses (just) you, Facebook comes out ahead.
  - dreamdu5t 15y ago
    But isn't that a testament to Farmville rather than Facebook? My grandma is on Facebook because I am and others she knows are. This is ultimately what sustains Facebook's success: The network effect. It's the "cool" thing to do. It's where everybody is, so you need to be. Despite that, the network effect is very volatile. It's not something you can easily sustain. MySpace was where everybody was at one point too. Facebook is fooling themselves if they think privacy isn't one of the areas they need to innovate.
    - sudont 15y ago
      "Everybody" isn't cool. Cool is taking a hard, miserable lifestyle and through persona making others yearn for it. The starving artist is "cool," Facebook is populist tripe.
- code_duck 15y ago
  I've just started using Facebook after ignoring it all this time. I've noticed exactly that problem. I commented on some stupid photo my friend posted, and then my mom told me later "Aren't you and Phil supposed to be working?". Good natured of course but it made me realize that actually, Facebook is a really awful place to interact with my friends.
spdy 15y ago
And this will one day be the downfall of facebook. If they dont adept... I can understand Zuckerbergs idea of pushing our comfort zone in terms of privacy. He wants to drop his "vision" upon us and on the other hand he has to make money... and thats one way to do it. But there is a lot of stuff i dont want to share with certain people. (Work,Family,Drinking Buddys etc.) Someone will come around and take a piece of his pie i`m sure about this. The social space is moving to fast and there a needs he does not want to address.

awj 15y ago

Yeah, I'm in the midst of discovering the horror of having my parents/extended family on Facebook. I now have to filter all of my dumb comments against "will mom call me to see if I'm ok" and stupid jokes have to be checked for grandma-appropriateness. No one presents the same face to the entire world. If Facebook really wants to be a bigger part of my online/social experience, they'll acknowledge and start acting on this fact.

Lagged2Death 15y ago
>If Facebook really wants to be a bigger part of my online/social experience, they'll acknowledge and start acting on this fact. Well, maybe. If Facebook gets your parents and grandparents all playing Farmville, but loses (just) you, Facebook comes out ahead.
- dreamdu5t 15y ago
  But isn't that a testament to Farmville rather than Facebook? My grandma is on Facebook because I am and others she knows are. This is ultimately what sustains Facebook's success: The network effect. It's the "cool" thing to do. It's where everybody is, so you need to be. Despite that, the network effect is very volatile. It's not something you can easily sustain. MySpace was where everybody was at one point too. Facebook is fooling themselves if they think privacy isn't one of the areas they need to innovate.
  - sudont 15y ago
    "Everybody" isn't cool. Cool is taking a hard, miserable lifestyle and through persona making others yearn for it. The starving artist is "cool," Facebook is populist tripe.
code_duck 15y ago
I've just started using Facebook after ignoring it all this time. I've noticed exactly that problem. I commented on some stupid photo my friend posted, and then my mom told me later "Aren't you and Phil supposed to be working?". Good natured of course but it made me realize that actually, Facebook is a really awful place to interact with my friends.

spdy 15y ago

And this will one day be the downfall of facebook. If they dont adept... I can understand Zuckerbergs idea of pushing our comfort zone in terms of privacy. He wants to drop his "vision" upon us and on the other hand he has to make money... and thats one way to do it. But there is a lot of stuff i dont want to share with certain people. (Work,Family,Drinking Buddys etc.) Someone will come around and take a piece of his pie i`m sure about this. The social space is moving to fast and there a needs he does not want to address.