Facebook Interviewer Heckled at Web Conference

jriding writes "Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old billionaire, was the keynote speaker at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Business Week journalist Sarah Lacy took the stage to question Zuckerberg, but the audience quickly grew tired of the topics she focused on, claiming that the real issues were being ignored. "Never, ever have I seen such a train wreck of an interview," claimed audience member, Jason Pontin." The audience apparently wanted to know more about privacy and portability issues, which I guess shouldn't surprise anyone here.

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It's a difficult balance

[BadAnalogyGuy]

On the one hand, you want to be able to post pictures of yourself passed out in your own vomit, stripped down to your panties and french kissing another sorority sister, and simulating fellatio on a blow up doll. On the other hand, you don't want people to be able to copy the pictures and send them around the web.

I think the right word to describe this is FAIL

You can't have your urinal cake and eat it too.

Re:It's a difficult balance

[Anonymous Coward]

Reality slap : If you post your image on the internet it can and will be copied. you can do NOTHING to stop that from happening.

It blows my mind how dumb the average facebook and myspace page owner is.

Although the amount pf passed out in vomit photos should be telling me the average IQ.

Re:It's a difficult balance

[mapkinase]

google search.

Re:It's a difficult balance

[argStyopa]

"....stripped down to your panties and french kissing another sorority sister, and simulating fellatio on a blow up doll..."

So...just as an example, where would those be?

scrabulous

[apodyopsis]

privacy, shmivacy - what I really want to know is are they going to take our Scrabulous away?

how else am I going to fill the hours spent sitting in front of a computer whilst at work?

Sha handles it gracefully

[prostoalex]

Say what you want about American journalists, and their courageous representative Sarah Lacy, she handled the hiccups in the interview gracefully:

seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things.

Re:Sha handles it gracefully

[Rob T Firefly]

seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things. I will never again be able to read anything she writes without my mind's ear hearing it in Eric Cartman's voice. Seriously, you guys.

plan b

[pak9rabid]

When all else fails, kindly remind them that you're the one with billions of dollars, not the audience trolls :).

Re:Probably set up

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

That's where journalist integrity comes in.

I,... I don't understand. Why do you put those two words so close together?

This is my opinion of facebook

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr3qPRAAnOg

Re:Get a suit, Zuck!

[lotho brandybuck]

This has been my experience too. Both as an investor, and as an employee!

Re:My take on the interview

[nomadic]

"That interview felt like awkward sex."

Is there any other kind?

Re:Probably set up

[crossmr]

Do you work for Fox?