As the co- founder, owner
of the most influential, profitable social website, Facebook, in an interview
with TechCrunch during 2010, Zuckerburg had revealed his thesis that “privacy
is no longer a social norm.” His speech aroused lots of discussion from
ordinary Facebook users to professors studying in mass media.
For many may argue, or
even criticize harshly, against Zuckerburg’s response. They may feel it is
quite an offense toward human right when it comes to privacy issue. However,
what I have discovered is the future trend of social web platforms.
According to Zuckerburg,
people have “really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and
different kinds.” Since the blog open the new era of internet service, which suggest
that we can also demonstrate our own opinions and feeling without the suppression
from mainstream media, social web platform has developed for more than ten
years. In the ten- year evolution, more and more functions are added, such as
picture sharing, outside- webpage link… etc. All these innovations share one
common idea: open. Namely, all these efforts are to make us easier to upload
our information and share them with friends in cyber world. Interestingly
enough, although doubt and criticism, people tend to be elaborate to embrace these
change. Evidence shows how we love to demonstrate us on the internet: In 2007,
take Taiwan as an example, Wretch blog on Yahoo welcome its peak with approximately
twenty million users. But for Facebook, which is much more bald and enlightened
in information share, reach one billon in user account during 2013. What’s
more, this number is still rising. It is obvious that getting our information,
no matter it is pictures, personal profile or our posts, open and even wide-
spread is the future trend in social web platform. As Zuckerburg had pointed,
our norm in privacy and social interaction is gradually vary.
In near future, perhaps merely in one or two
years, it is inevitable that we have to face the cyber world with less
restriction in information share. At that time, it is necessary that we shift
our notion with the tide.
Sources:
1.HuffPostTech. (2010). Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Privacy
No Longer A 'Social Norm. HuffPostTech