Zuckerberg's Privacy Comments

The CEO of Facebook is getting a lot of flak for these comments.

 

Apparently, the world is shocked because this kid has figured out the truth about people, whether or not we choose to admit it ourselves - we don't care about privacy anymore.

 

Only when we're accused of not caring - when the fact that most of us gladly put our lives on display for other people to see what we're doing is thrown in our faces - the fact that we're a nation of attention whores is rubbed in our noses - do we suddenly rush to defend our deep and abiding passion for keeping our lives behind closed doors. 

 

But let's be realistic.  We're in the age of Reality TV.  We're in the age of Big Government.  We're in the age of Fear  We gladly exchange our right to privacy for a little press time, a little money - a little more "safety."

 

This kid Mark Zuckerberg (this billionaire kid) is just much smarter than we'd like him to be.  He sees "us" for "us" and he's made a cool billion at a very, very ridiculously young age. 

 

Instead of getting angry at this guy for telling the truth, we should be angry at ourselves for allowing this to become reality.  Back off the whiz kid and start fixing things.

 

Unfortunately, when it comes to doing something beyond complaining our public tends to fail epically. 

 

And it's our own damn fault.