Hhere is an interview of Mark Zuckerberg by Diane Sawyer:
Watching this interview has made two things very clear to me:
1) Diane Sawyer had a stroke and ABC is frantically trying to cover that fact up.
2) The closest contact Diane Sawyer has ever had with the Internet is making her assistant find, print and post Caturday pictures for her on her office wall.
Don't get me wrong. I'm certain she agrees that the Internet is beneficial. I'm also certain she would agree it was to everyone's benefit that Al Gore invented it.
The original story tries to add some sort of legitimacy by interviewing Justin Hall, who's been blogging since 1611 (his first review was a little play called Macbeth, which he described as 'kind of a downer'). I don't know exactly how they came up with him as an authority on Facebook. Maybe that completely inaudible girl in the background was Jane Pinckard. In any event, I'm pretty certain that nobody in Diane Sawyer's circle has ever heard of him, as their eyes would rot in their sockets if they ever actually read about anything he's blogged.
In any event, here we go again, trying to bring up the whole Facebook privacy issue again. As the old adage goes, there's no such thing as a free lunch; somebody has to pay for it. You pay for Facebook access with information. Your information. If you don't want to provide your information, you get limited service. Anyone who knows how to program the time on their VCR or microwave can change the privacy settings on Facebook, so it's really, in my humble opinion, a non-issue.
Of course, non-issues are what drives today's news market. Its this kind of story that provides Diane Sawyer a job to pay for her therapy. I wish you a speedy recovery, Diane.
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I want my 5 minutes back.
ReplyDeleteNo, really. That interview hurt my brain. They didn't go to ask Mark anything, she went to try to convince him, by carrying the "weight" of ABC behind her, to "make privacy be th default."
He explained twice in the span of 2 minutes that their studies and research shows that mor e people who use the site actually like to share with everyone. Being a developer myself, I full well understand that position: make the default be what most people want, even if the weirdos want it differently.