Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

> This pledge was, in some ways, the reverse of an other announcement [on retargeting].

No, it’s not: giving advertisers relevant audiences is useful; offering customers the possibility to say “me buying a vacuum cleaner was not because I was starting a collection” serves a similar purpose: showing ads to people interested by them. (On a related note: If you sell a vacuum cleaner, please don’t use retargeting.)

> The only two I could think of that might feel obligated to make the same assurances are Diebold, the widely hated former manufacturer of electronic-voting systems, and Academi, the private military contractor whose founder keeps begging for a chance to run Afghanistan. This is not good company.

No words on whether Diebolt, and the hundreds of private computer security companies who protect government services are good companies.

> At 2 billion members, “monthly active Facebook users” is the single largest non-biologically sorted group

Well, I’d wager ‘Internet users’ is larger…

> For most Facebook users, these meticulously constructed and assiduously managed challenges are the only access they’ll ever have to Zuckerberg’s otherwise highly private personal life.

The fact that I know his chidren’s names (and have seem a dozen pictures of the eldest) but I don’t know the names of most of my colleagues’ child kind of defeats that point.

> Maybe Facebook is a state within a state and Zuckerberg is inspecting its boundaries.

Something tells me that the author is American. What could it possibly be?

No - it's specifically relating to him, not his knowledge.

It is what ever he wants it to be, little man.

Cause you are here trying to find definitions of something in your head, while he is controlling it, absolutely not caring about what you think, from the top of his billions and probably future presidency.

Don't worry. He knows what it is.

Facebook is the biggest farm of data milch cows that has ever existed. How can he publically come out and say that? Yes there are, and will continue to be unintended effects on society for running such a large farm...

But

Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist.

Asking Zuckerberg to clarify the role of the farm is pointless. It's like asking why a gigantic herd of wildebeest are required for the Serengeti to exist.

If you want a consumption culture that gives you, your iPhones and Star Wars movies you need the farm. Whether its called facebook or is run by a Zuckerberg is in an irrelevant point.

I was just thinking he probably has dirt on almost every American he would ever run against in an election.