The source of this opinion, the founder of Facebook, is hardly the most reliable when it comes to privacy. Facebook thrives on dumb people posting dumb things.
The rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Talking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25-year-old chief executive of the world's most popular social network said that privacy was no longer a "social norm".
For those morons who delight in posting all aspects of the lives (as if we care), then they get what they deserve.
"People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," he said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time."...
...Meanwhile, others have rejected the idea that younger people, in particular, are less concerned about privacy. Last month Microsoft researcher and social networking expert Danah Boyd told the Guardian that such assumptions often misunderstood the reasons that people put private information online.
"Kids have always cared about privacy, it's just that their notions of privacy look very different than adult notions," she said.
"As adults, by and large, we think of the home as a very private space … for young people it's not a private space. They have no control over who comes in and out of their room, or who comes in and out of their house. As a result, the online world feels more private because it feels like it has more control."
When all those pics of drunk people with beer cans up their nose from Facebook begin resurfacing in 20 years, privacy may again become an issue.
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