In deciphering the noise about Facebook's latest measures on privacy and sharing, Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis admits he's been a little baffled. Why have so many people suddenly gotten hostile to the social network?
Jarvis thinks it may have to do with Facebook confusing sharing with publishing. In other words, Facebook is assuming that what you put on your page is effectively there for the world, when he thinks it ought to simply be there for the public you've chosen (that is, your Friends and perhaps their Friends).
Facebook wants to be the creator and enabler of identities, but cannot because users do not want it to be so, he asserts.
Jarvis thinks it may have to do with Facebook confusing sharing with publishing. In other words, Facebook is assuming that what you put on your page is effectively there for the world, when he thinks it ought to simply be there for the public you've chosen (that is, your Friends and perhaps their Friends).
Facebook wants to be the creator and enabler of identities, but cannot because users do not want it to be so, he asserts.
