Fred Vogelstein, writing for the Wired blog Epicenter, looks at Facebook’s history on privacy, and points out that we shouldn’t really be shocked at what Mark Zuckerberg is doing.
“Indeed, Zuckerberg’s challenges to conventional thinking about online privacy have become so predictable, it’s starting to resemble Moore’s Law. That bet — that the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double every 18 months — has been the foundation of the computer industry for a generation. Will Facebook’s bet every 18 months that it can push the world to rethink privacy be the driver of the social web? I think so, at least for a while.”
