Facebook Under Siege: Will It Ever Grow Up?
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Despite Facebook’s Harvard-dorm-room roots, the company’s M.O. is more stubbornly childish than post-collegiate. Think of Facebook as a self-absorbed, petulant brat, one that doesn’t understand how to play well with others — users, investors, partners, competitors. Consider just the latest string of misbehavior:
Last month Facebook created a more-prominent control panel called Privacy Shortcuts. But as New York Times “Bits” blogger Nick Bilton put it, “When Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh away” — specifically, you can now no longer hide yourself from Facebook search. Bilton quoted a company executive as saying that particular privacy option was killed because only “a single-digit percentage of users” use it.”But keep in mind,” Bilton added, “that Facebook has a billion people on the site; a single-digit percentage of users could mean tens of millions of people.”
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