Zuckerberg’s theory of privacy: Share everything to make the world better

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html

Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of privacy
By Michael Zimmer

Ten years ago, a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg sat at a computer in his Harvard dorm room and launched thefacebook.com. The goal, according to a 2009 Zuckerberg blog post commemorating Facebook’s 200 millionth user, was “to create a richer, faster way for people to share information about what was happening around them.”

If you believe the clumsy collegiate dating scenes in the movie “The Social Network,” however, Zuckerberg’s motivation for creating what has become the world’s largest social networking platform was, at least in part, to meet girls.

He has definitely met the first goal. (He’s also reportedly happily married, so the second one seems to have worked out for him, too.)

Today, Facebook has more than 1 billion active users who, each day, share nearly 5 billion items, upload 350 million photos and click the “like” button more than 4.5 billion times. Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking service and the second-most visited Web site. Only Google gets more visitors daily.

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1. The first of his generation of "share everything" teens are already 10 years out, having big time

regret....

Sadly, privacy can not be gotten back once relinquished.

Zuckerberg will be reviled in future years, I seriously believe.