That day may already be here. Facebook’s privacy settings have been thoroughly documented by news reporters, tweeted and blogged all over the place, and mocked repeatedly by The Onion. It’s a safe bet that by now, most Facebook users have some idea that Facebook has some sort of problem that might leak secrets onto the Internet.
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Zuckerberg’s most controversial opinion on privacy, stated repeatedly in the book, is that “You have one identity.” Trying to curate a separate online persona the differs from one’s real life, he says, suggests “a lack of integrity.”
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Most people probably wouldn’t agree with him. But that isn’t keeping them away from his site. Are they stupid? No, Facebook users seem to be getting smarter all the time to the First Rule of Using the Internet: If you don’t want everyone to see something, don’t post it. The End.
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