I think he's totally disingenuous. Yeah, we get it, you want to connect people around the world. At least be honest and say you want people to share more and more information so you can make money off of it.
He talks about being too granular with regards to privacy settings. Who is this op-ed aimed at ? Joe Average Facebook user is not going to know what he means by granular...
> At least be honest and say you want people to share more and more information so you can make money off of it.
Assuming that profit-maximizing decisions must be harmful for customers seems pretty intellectually lazy to me. You can't see any ways in which encouraging users to share more thoughts with more people could make the product more interesting to use?
> He talks about being too granular with regards to privacy settings. Who is this op-ed aimed at ?
Most Washington Post readers know what granular means.
I wasn't assuming that profit-maximizing decisions must be harmful for customers. Of course it would make the product more interesting. I just think he completely ignored what Facebook stands to gain monetarily and completely framed his argument as Facebook being altruistic.
He talks about being too granular with regards to privacy settings. Who is this op-ed aimed at ? Joe Average Facebook user is not going to know what he means by granular...