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“Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.”—Mark Zuckerberg
by raganwald 14y ago
“Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.”—Mark Zuckerberg
- jondoh 14y agoAlso, "break things".
- domador 14y agoThat doesn't speak too well of his design ability.
- raganwald 14y agoLet me see now. They have pushed their email address out into people’s address books and taken control of their private communications. Where is the poor (business) design?
- jpeterson 14y agoWhere is the poor (business) design? You'll see this when people start recognizing Facebook as the crap it really is, and stop using it.
- popee 14y agoEventually and maybe even sooner then most think, fb will become jet another dinosaur. It's just a matter of time. Fly dinosaur, fly :-)
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoI know increasing numbers of people who are either walking away from it completely or largely disengaging, many of whom are people who'd be seen in the sort of groups usually marked out as trend setters, those whose behaviour tends to be copied by others down the line. I don't think it's going to disappear, but it does feel as though it's reaching something of a peak.
- raganwald 14y agoPossibly, but just for the sake of an interesting discussion, what is there about this particular blatant “It screws users over but it's good for Facebook” move that is different than all the other moves they’ve pulled?
- jpeterson 14y agoI think the difference here is that everything they've done before now has been more or less bounded by my own actions. If they screw my privacy, it's my own damned fault for posting sensitive stuff to their site. Hell, even if they track me around the web, I should've been more careful about blocking their cookies. But this is another ballgame. What they've done here is effectively hijack a completely unrelated and ubiquitous communication channel — without any action on my part, and without giving any indication of doing so! I don't even use Facebook, but since I created a Facebook account at some point in the past, they potentially have access to my inbound email traffic. That's just absurd and stupid.
- falling 14y agoI don't mean to defend them because this move is stupid, but to help you get this back in control: you can go you your about page and set the @facebook email to be hidden. I had done this in the past and they didn't touch it.
- high5ths 14y agoNo, that's the problem here: I had definitely hidden my @facebook email address (setting it to be visible to only me) when it was first created. After a number of people posted this story, I found that the email address was suddenly the only one showing. That's what is so nefarious about this. I had to go and reselect the options I had already chosen, and the only reason I noticed it was because of the press. Really slimy.
- jarek 14y agoI, as well, have set the @facebook.com address as hidden and set my normal address as visible and public. After the story broke I found my usual address "hidden from timeline" and the @facebook.com address visible.
- antidoh 14y agoI've been waiting for people to stop watching reality TV too. Still waiting.
- popee 14y agoLOL
- simonsarris 14y agoJust to be clear, that quote is from Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars), not really Zuckerberg
- domador 14y agoOh, I see. That speaks well of raganwald's wit and sarcasm.
- AznHisoka 14y agoThat speaks well of Palpatine's design then.
- horsehead 14y agoThey're two separate people?
- Silhouette 14y agoAlways two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice.
- kmfrk 14y ago"Pray I don't alter it any further."
- raganwald 14y agoYou get free unlimited photo storage, free groups, events, messaging, status updates, and more. All your friends are on it and using it. You use it to keep in touch with people around the block and around the globe in real time. All we ask is that your private communications never again leave this application. Perhaps you think you’re being treated unfairly?
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- wetherbeei 14y agoThere's a difference between complaining about features within Facebook (timeline, etc) and changes Facebook tries to make outside of it's app. Changing your personal contact details is way outside.
- viraptor 14y agoNot sure how the facebook app integrates with the contact list, but isn't it only a projection of information that facebook servers publish? I.e. it's not "your personal contact details", but rather an entry that you accepted as being presented by facebook? It would be disturbing if they changed an existing entry that you created yourself, but if it's only an entry bound to an external (facebook) account, I'm not sure it's that bad. Which one is it then?
- kmfrk 14y agoFacebook will fix this embarrassing cock-up as if it had never happened - as always. I find your lack of faith disturbing.
- chernevik 14y ago
- at-fates-hands 14y agohis business card also said "I'm CEO, Bitch."