Mostly from the Internet, sometimes by Conrad Lisco.
Facebook launches "Sponsored Stories," a new ad format where brands can sponsor a user’s actions (likes, checkins, app activity & page posts) on FB and it will be highlighted in the newsfeed for their friends.
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg seem to assume that once something is public, it’s public. They confused sharing with publishing. They conflate the public sphere with the making of a public. That is, when I blog something, I am publishing it to the world for anyone and everyone to see: the more the better, is the assumption. But when I put something on Facebook my assumption had been that I was sharing it just with the public I created and control there. That public is private. Therein lies the confusion. Making that public public is what disturbs people. It robs them of their sense of control—and their actual control—of what they were sharing and with whom (no matter how many preferences we can set).
Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830 words long; the United States Constitution, is 4,543 words.
"People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," Zuckerberg said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time."
