Zuckerberg: Thanks NSA, now people trust Facebook even less

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It's not just Facebook. The trust metrics for all major Internet companies have gone down since the NSA scandal broke, says the social network's CEO.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted Wednesday that the social network and its competitors are suffering in the perception department after stories of the National Security Agency's various spying initiatives, starting with Prism, came to light.

Zuckerberg, speaking in an interview with Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet, said that his company tracks people's trust in Facebook and every major Internet company it deems relevant. The trust metrics for Facebook, Twitter, and Google have all gone down since the NSA scandal first broke, he said.

"There's a lot of times where ... someone will criticize us in the press over privacy. What we've found is that stuff tends to not actually move the needle that much on the brand perception around trust," he said. "The NSA stuff did."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57603561-93/zuckerberg-thanks-nsa-now-people-trust-facebook-even-less/

[The Magistrate]

1. Now That, Sir, Is Seriously Funny....

'My private-enterprise spying for profit is taking a hit from government competition!"

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5. Yep, the NSA has done messed up his business plan.

"The suckers come up like the grass, and we mow them."

[The Magistrate]

6. It's An Ill Wind Blows No Good, Eh?

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9. Beats the crap on television all hollow, is the way I look at it Sir.

Reality is better, more interesting, and funnier than anything you could just think up; and you won't see much in the media that screws up the "buying mood", got to keep that ad money coming in.

Hence DU.

[The Magistrate]

12. Too True, Sir

Gave up reading fiction long ago, save for occasional bouts of nostalgia, and the pure amusement of Mr. Chandler's word-play once in a while....

"Mostly I killed time, and it died hard."

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Anyone who trusts Facebook is a fool

NSA or no NSA.

[el_bryanto]

7. Trust them to do what?

Or what shouldn't we post on Facebook?

Bryant

[Kelvin Mace]

14. No, you shouldn't

Anything posted to Facebook can ( and probably will be) used against you.

It will certainly be used to invade your privacy and try to sell you various dodgy products.

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10. I lie to them too, fair is fair. We don't owe them good data. nt

[Kelvin Mace]

13. True, but you would be amazedwhat they can steal off your computer

unless you are VERY careful.

[frazzled]

3. Oh, sweet: Facebook hiding behind the apron strings of NSA

As if anyone needed a reason not to trust Facebook beyond Facebook itself.

[bhikkhu]

4. Zuckerberg is a tax-dodging money-hungry RW shill wannabe

...which is the immediate cause for me to use facebook very little. Other reasons means less to me, but the sum is that I would switch to another more attractive service immediately if the opportunity presented itself. That he blames it on the government is expected, and typical.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. Yep. n/t

[gordianot]

11. There should be a simple reason for the decline of trust.

Corporations, actual human people, governments have paid for or been told their information is secure. All along one monolithic spy agency is capable accessing everything you have and do. Not that the NSA is necessarily doing that they have built that capability. Who else has the tools to do the same?