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You probably already read about Randi Zuckerberg’s faux-privacy violation on Facebook this week. But odds are you’re not part of her inner circle. Lucky for you, a tipster who’s “Friends” with RZ gave up the goods directly from her wall.
While Randi was admonishing people for lacking “human decency” on Twitter—dispatches she’d delete shortly after writing—she was fretting to her vast Friend following about how to handle the situation. The situation being that a completely innocuous photo she’d inadvertently made public through tagging was circulating the Internet. And to think, it was a viral hit even without the original caption: “Mark convinced everyone to download the ‘poke’ app, so now my family is standing around sexting. Awk. Ward.” Truly! Where was Priscilla?
So she asked: should she ignore the quasi-controversy? Was it just a slow news day? (Which, yes, it was)
Hundreds of Randi’s Silicon Valley chums chimed in, including Google exec Hunter Walk, begging RZ to let it go.
Ignore, ignore, ignore, the people said. Tech investor Michael Arrington chimed in with something incoherent.
Former Microsoft big shot Robert Scoble warned that this will only get worse with the spread of Google Glass. Venture capitalist Dave McClure referred fondly to the time the three of them played Rock Band in 2008. Still, the friends all said let it go.
She never did.
It’s strange to look inside, from a friend’s point of view, and see Mark Zuckerberg’s sister miss the mark by so many yards. When something is out there, it’s out there, free to be shared like any other rumour, joke, or dog meme—and Randi’s family is rich because of it. It’s not even Facebook’s fault. No privacy setting could have prevented this, short of blocking everyone. Although whining about “decency” should make our eyes roll, she’s got the human part spot on—so long as we’re friends with humans on Facebook, those same people are free to spread whichever parts of your life they choose, and spread it widely. Because we like doing it, and that’s what Facebook is for.
Randi’s brother’s life goal is “Making the world more open and connected,” and he’s doing a good job at it. But the more connected we are, the quicker we’re just going to be the way we were a century ago. We like funny things. We like being in on the joke. And when you’re a self-appointed tech celeb, your frustration becomes a currency anyone will spend. One of your over 2,300 Facebook friends sold you out for a quick laugh Randi, and they’ll keep doing it over and over again, to all of us, so long as we’re all making money for your brother.
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well now the shoe is on the other foot! This is how it is to be a typical user, or in her world, a statistic! Pwnage comes in all forms!
If one of my friends shared something I had posted to the world I’d be a bit passed off. But then my circle of friends only includes real friends, not a group of people who follow me because I’m a relation of someone famous.
Passed off? no I’d be pissed off, bloody autocorrect (and lack of edit button).
But what about your friends friends?
What about them? Since I use G+ rather than facebook I can more easily control who sees my shit (and if they are permitted to share it).
Well your friends could copy your post/pic and repost it and the their friends would see it….
This is true. But why would a real friend do that. It would be the same as an IRL friend repeating something I told them in confidence, there is nothing I can do to stop them, but if they did they would be proving that they were not actually my friend
Well that’s sort of what happened here, only accidentally.
I have one friend on Facebook lol, never ever used it other than to get into Planetside 2 beta lol.
yup yup… I did the same =)
I love how you can have all the money in the world but nothing changes your fabric, ‘Berg is still just the awkward geek in the corner.
And Randi, you ain’t that fucking important, drink it up while a few deadheads give a fucking shit.
she is a drama queen,
FFS spoiled bitch needs to get over herself.
i mean sharing a photo, is such a crime against humanity and destabilises world peace
if someone posted it online without asking then just maybe, i would think well she didn’t share it, but she posted it online and needs to stop being a whiny little bitch, along with the rest of the world who think that things they post publicly online (and by publicly i mean even sharing it with friends)
you want to keep shit private the keep it offline if you post a photo, watermark it and optimise it right down if you don’t want people to use it
so all the whiners need to suck it up. or stop posting shit online and keep it to the real world.
there rant over
It’s all pr for a failed poke app.
i didnt think of that, bet the app maker is well happy
I’m not a violent man but anyone who starts a comment – Jeff besos once told me [and it was sooo dull, just makes it worse] – needs a slap from a heavy wet fish.
I still don’t understand what the big deal is, it’s not like the whole family is naked or murdering cats. If she’s comfortable with family and friends seeing it and it’s not embarrassing I don’t see the problem.