... or, at least, a media whirlwind.
David Kirkpatrick's book, The Facebook Effect, has been making the rounds of the news interview shows, including today's Morning Show on KPFA. The nice thing about Mr. Kirkpatrick's appearance on this Pacifica affiliate is that Mr. Kirkpatrick let's his hair down, so to speak, about Facebook's threat to personal privacy. If you're interested in media coverage of Mr. Kirkpatrick's book, or interested, in general, in Facebook, I highly recommend listening to the program.
My favorite part of the interview comes when Mr. Kirkpatrick explains how Facebook management believes online privacy is a fiction. Mr. Kirkpatrick describes how Facebook takes two steps toward reducing privacy, faces user outrage, takes one step back and then, a few months later takes that other step forward again. And, just to ensure users share the blame with Facebook, these features, such as the News Feed, becomes an essential element of the service. --Quite true.
Any erosion of privacy we experience on Facebook is a cooperative effort as we users continue to pile terabytes of content onto the service every hour. To quote Walt Kelly, "We have found the enemy, and he is us."
