Facebook CEO: People Don't Really Want Privacy Nowadays, Anyway

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By Andrew Moseman
Jan 13, 2010 2:41 AMNov 19, 2019 10:56 PM
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There's nothing like the launching a company from your college dorm room that achieves global Internet hegemony within a few years to make you think you can offer royal pronouncements about how the world has changed. OK, so that was a bit melodramatic. But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earned some howls and guffaws in the last few days over his statements saying that, in a nutshell, people aren't terribly interested in privacy anymore. Specifically, he said:

"In the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way and all these different services that have people sharing all this information. People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that's evolved over time."

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