Zuckerberg: Privacy anxiety is fleeting

[IDemo]

Facebook products in the past have created controversy over privacy, but people get used to new features that initially scare them, founder Mark Zuckerberg has told the e-G8 Forum.

Facebook services that have increasingly allowed "friends" to keep track of each other have drawn criticism from users, who then begin to use them, Zuckerberg told the e-G8 Forum conference in Paris this week.

"We'll roll it out, and pretty often there'll be this backlash, and people will say, ok, we don't like this new thing," said Zuckerberg. "It's I think a real anxiety. People were really afraid of more people being able to be involved in the social network."

Zuckerberg said that 1 million people, or 10 percent of the Facebook user base, in 2006 protested against Facebook's news feed service, which gives updates about what "friends" are doing.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Does he have a facebook page??

[Newest Reality]

2. To have a succesful form of

social engineering these days, all you need to do is get people use to it.

Slow and gradual tyranny and the erosion of the concept of personal privacy need not be a sudden imposition, but a gradual series of steps towards the goal of total control and mass submission.

You apply a method and observe the results. If the tactic continues to generate too much controversy or resistance, you pull back and wait. You then try another method. If it is successful, you continue with the next, and so on, until a previously rejected method can even become acceptable.

Done gradually and well, the transition can become less obvious and accepted as a normal way of life, increasing in scope and impact with each generation.

Now, imagine what you might consider to be totally unacceptable now; even completely dark and dystopian. Then, apply the above formula and consider the potential of that kind of future being enabled by these methodical steps towards a world vision based on corporatism, or what have you. It is doable with patience and persistence, especially when the subjects lack knowledge, diligence and insight into what is happening to them and why.