UPDATED 12:30 EST / MAY 18 2010

Facebook’s All-Hands Meeting: Just Like Amy Winehouse at Rehab

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My “moral weather-vane” for technology Jason Calacanis has set his cross-hairs on Facebook and their privacy issues. As a user of Facebook, I worry that giving us too many choices as to privacy is bad. There will always be a chance that I will miss a choice that might be pivotal to my privacy. I can only assume that Facebook hopes to induce a paralysis of indecision so they can exploit and sell my info.

Of course this could just be negative thinking; perhaps they are just so concerned with being sued that they opened the privacy choice floodgate for us to choose what we want down to the granular level.

From a content provider’s standpoint, no privacy is good: “Please spread my info across your closed silo, and please take my money and advertise my “Content Page” so I can make money off of what I write on Facebook.” Brilliant.

This supposed recent "all hands meeting" can be likened to a star going to "rehab" to be forgiven of their prior actions. It was their choice, they made the decision and acted on it. Now they have to pretend for the mainstream that it was a mistake and go get rehab.

Mark Zuckerberg is doing the same exact same thing. He planned and discussed the changes well before they made the changes, it was not a mistake. However it was a surprise to see the reaction so now they are going to have a "meeting " to show their concern about something they clearly wanted to do.

Here are the questions we should really be asking ourselves: Will they change anything? Does it look good to us that they are listening to what the bloggers are saying about the drastic changes?


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