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14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry about Facebook

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121 pointsfmihaila8 comments

It's an interesting position to be in when your organization has a lot of pressure from the general public to do right by the people instead of by the interests of the shareholders of the company, especially in the context of a technology company.

The only real solution here is just to NOT share data with facebook (delete it), but a lot of people either don't understand that or don't care.

These types of events make me worried about what kind of precedents will be set for technology companies in the US going forward. I hope that they don't over-regulate and strangle out innovation, but at the same time I agree that a company as large as facebook should have a larger interest in the good of the people.

Who is really responsible for the user data though? Should the users be held responsible for sharing data or should facebook for not making it easier to manage privacy?

Deleting your account is not sufficient; even having never created an account in the first place is not sufficient. Facebook will compile and maintain a "shadow profile" on you regardless, using data uploaded by other users and gathered from external sources. (See https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-...)

At some point Facebook stopped being a social network and started being an intelligence agency.

No company in the history of Big Tech has gotten away with as much malpractice, breach of trust/ethics, invasion of privacy as facebook has in its (relatively) short history.

Facebook management's recorded antics will likely become a case-study for future founders and entrepreneurs -- taught in business schools and ilk.

Showing how much you can get away with relatively minor repercussions.

It doesn't seem like the average user cares about social media privacy at all, let alone Facebook politics and forced apologies.

The current privacy settings available on Facebook are actually very extensive, but totally overwhelming to most users, which would help explain why mostly open profiles are still common.

Sorry, Mark and Facebook, about my canceled Facebook account.

For Mark to really feel sorry, being not on Facebook needs to be way more cooler. It needs famous people like Kylie Jenner [0] to act.

[0] http://fortune.com/2018/02/22/kylie-jenner-snapchat-snap-val...

FWIW, this is really just clickbait as Snap released its first annual report (10-K) that day, which most certainly had the effect on share price.

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