Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Forget Privacy

judgecorp writes "Privacy is no longer a social norm, according to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. Speaking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco, the entrepreneur said that expectations had changed, and people now default to sharing online, not privacy. It's all right for him, but does he mean it's ok for bodies like the UK government to monitor all citizens' Internet use?"

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Meta spam issues

[fyngyrz]

If a comment is already spam, then as far as I'm concerned it's a perfectly legitimate target for an on-topic thread re-start. It keeps the discussions from having the entire top set of posts be full of "frist pist" and other spam. My comment, being 100% on-topic, unlike its parent, is not spam.

You simply need to learn what a low-value post actually is. For instance, your post was 100% off-topic, and since I (probably ill-advisedly) bothered to reply to it... so is this. :)

Re:Information wants to be free, right?

[mjwx]

Zuck is saying that people want to share information about themselves, and he's right. If he were wrong, Facebook never would have left the dorm it was created in.

Facebook is to narcissistic losers as Jack Daniels is to an alcoholic hobo.

The whole thing is set up to play to the ego's of people who have never accomplished anything and want recognition for it. The most prolific posters I know on Facebook are stay at home mums. The baby photo circle jerks are annoying, deep down these people found out that their only achievement in life was popping out a crotchspawn and Facebook gives them a way to sate their tattered ego's by glorifying a mediocre achievement.

The same applies to any narcissistic personality, marketers, middle managers et al. I do try to bring people down from their ego highs but this tends to cause them to "hide" me, none of them will ever "de-friend" me however as you friend count seems to be analogous to your facebook penis size.