I don’t care.

Facebook is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Sensed exasperation among the site’s 450 million plus users influenced Zuckerberg to release this statement:

“Simply put, many of you thought our controls [for determining who could see information about you] were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. We just missed the mark…We do not give advertisers access to your personal information…We do not and never will sell any of your information to anyone.”

The 26-year-old Harvard drop-out insisted in the Washington Post that Facebook will “keep listening” to the concerns of users.
Zuckerberg, however, stopped short of offering users the choice of opting to having all their information spread throughout the social network and the internet. This may mean that the new settings will not totally satisfy users.

For a free social networking tool that is as fun as Facebook –and Zuckerberg insists in the Washington Post article that Facebook will always be a free service – I think that it takes a certain amount of chutzpa for users to complain. If you are generally a diffident person, surely you will have the reasonableness to simply stay off.
Furthermore, it takes chutzpa to complain about Mark Zuckerberg’s fickleness on privacy settings, in that the best virtual hangout on the Web is his own brain-child.

Well, the Facebook team says that there are two fundamental faux pas with the site now:

“First, they do not do a good job of indicating how public each piece of information you share on the site will be. Second, they change the rules far too often. If you understood Facebook’s privacy settings two years ago (or even six months ago), that information would be worse than useless with today’s bewildering settings.”

I disagree.
Zuckerberg’s fickleness about privacy, reminds me of my own Facebook page. I am always precise about my posts: my videos, my links, the “about me” section, my Websites, my info, my notes; what people post to MY wall and most of all what I post on the walls of OTHERS. I find myself doing some of my best thinking on Facebook and I find myself making good use of the delete button.
Wikipedia defines art as “the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions…The meaning of art” says Wikipedia “is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.”
Art is artificial. It is mimesis according to the Greeks. It is a virtual mirror of reality. The artist creates his or her world or mirror of reality, and he or she has the power to perfect it as he or she deems perfect. Sometimes I consider MYSELF an artist and MY Facebook page to be MY medium.

Zuckerberg is an artist. Privacy, and the bigger grand canvas, Facebook is HIS medium. Let the Web guru fiddle with his own creation. The bashful and timid should look elsewhere for different fun.
If the internet threatened to have a negative affect on social interaction – that is, made us less emotional, less human and worse at real life communication, then social networking has undone the curse. Zuckerberg, in my reckoning is the king of social networking.
Zuckerberg does not shy away from stressing, in his article, from preaching the faith of free information sharing:

“Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas…People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people control over what they share, they will want to share more. If people share more, the world will become more open and connected

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