When I first used facebook I seem to remember that there were no privacy settings whatsoever, but people who could see you were restricted to your college.
When Facebook was first opened to people outside of your college, there was a lot of controversy about it. All of your information was (suddenly) open to the public. People had stuff up there that they didn't want Joe weirdo on the internet looking up. I seem to remember Mark saying something to the effect of (at the time), 'I think this should be an open platform for everyone to see everyone else's information'.
But then a mass exodus from Facebook started, and people were deleting their profiles, etc.. (I know I removed a lot from mine). After the uproar, he finally caved and they added privacy settings.
If anything Zuckerberg has been consistent about what he wants the platform to be. The real issue is that his 'consistent' view is /not/ what the majority of Facebook users actually want. They want to connect with people that they already know on Facebook, and be able to share stuff within a small community.
The truth is that there are a lot of really sketchy people on the internet, who want to steal your information, stalk you, and such. Putting up the type of things that you do on facebook, publicly, is simply not a good idea.
When Facebook was first opened to people outside of your college, there was a lot of controversy about it. All of your information was (suddenly) open to the public. People had stuff up there that they didn't want Joe weirdo on the internet looking up. I seem to remember Mark saying something to the effect of (at the time), 'I think this should be an open platform for everyone to see everyone else's information'.
But then a mass exodus from Facebook started, and people were deleting their profiles, etc.. (I know I removed a lot from mine). After the uproar, he finally caved and they added privacy settings.
If anything Zuckerberg has been consistent about what he wants the platform to be. The real issue is that his 'consistent' view is /not/ what the majority of Facebook users actually want. They want to connect with people that they already know on Facebook, and be able to share stuff within a small community.
The truth is that there are a lot of really sketchy people on the internet, who want to steal your information, stalk you, and such. Putting up the type of things that you do on facebook, publicly, is simply not a good idea.