Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Facebook on Privacy Norms

Well, I disagree.  Facebook's eroding privacy policies was the main reason I deactivated my Facebook account.

According to the Telegraph in the UK, "Mr Zuckerberg defended the changes made by Facebook to its privacy settings, saying it was in line with the new social norms. 'A lot of companies would be trapped by the conventions and their legacies of what they've built,' he said. 'Doing a privacy change for 350 million users is not the kind of thing that a lot of companies would do.

'But we viewed that as a really important thing, to always keep a beginner's mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it,'" he explained.

1 comment:

D. Lapin said...

Facebook retains all of your data until you delete the account, which is not made easy. Google it for the process.