Comments on: Weinberger on Facebook Privacy http://fstutzman.com/2007/11/15/weinberger-on-facebook-privacy/ Thoughts about information, social networks, and privacy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bertil http://fstutzman.com/2007/11/15/weinberger-on-facebook-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 Bertil Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:08:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~fred/projects/blog/?p=525#comment-1019 I can only agree that the defaults are not safety oriented and this is bad -- but hasn't such a risk benefited Search engines (who could index without having to ignore sites without robot.txt), or the initial growth of Facebook?<br/><br/>Both cases have irreplaceable benefits, so I would love to have the service try not to have the *defaults* wrong, but the *explanation* right: what we see is clearly irresponsible behavior, but helping users to grow-up would make all these questions much easier to resolve -- don't you think? I can only agree that the defaults are not safety oriented and this is bad — but hasn’t such a risk benefited Search engines (who could index without having to ignore sites without robot.txt), or the initial growth of Facebook?

Both cases have irreplaceable benefits, so I would love to have the service try not to have the *defaults* wrong, but the *explanation* right: what we see is clearly irresponsible behavior, but helping users to grow-up would make all these questions much easier to resolve — don’t you think?

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