Quote of the day by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Privacy is no longer a social norm declaring the erosion of social boundaries

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Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Social media users have organically grown less concerned about privacy over time, according to the creator of Facebook

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter One of the most significant changes in the last couple of decades has been the rise of social media and the way it's reshaped society. Mark Zuckerberg, who co-founded and launched Facebook and now leads the technology conglomerate Meta has played a key role in what he describes as an erosion of privacy. "People have really
gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds
but more openly with more people. And that social norm is just something that's evolved over time." Mark Zuckerberg, January 2010 Social media shifts We were just months away from Mark Zuckerberg's first on-screen portrayal in The Social Network when he spoke about the story of Facebook so far at TechCrunch's Crunchies awards in January 2010. Quote of the day This article is part of TechRadar Pro's QOTD project to provide an insight into the minds of the brightest and most recognized figures in the technology industry today and in years gone by. Read the full series here . During the interview, he spoke about the way that people's attitudes toward their own sense of privacy had shifted, and that with the tools available on the web including his own platform users were far more open and willing to share details about themselves. Latest Videos From Watch full video here:

He delivered these thoughts following criticism that Facebook had altered its architecture so that basic information, like your friends list, became publicly viewable by default unless you consciously opted out. The death of privacy Zuckerberg, at the time, was attempting to reframe his platform's changes as ones that served users as it adapted to their behavior. But it's also fair to suggest that Facebook had also played a role in triggering behavioral shifts in its users in the first place. You may like Quote of the day by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: 'Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough' on the nature of disruption Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Our own information is being weaponized against us with military efficiency' Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg: 'Metaverse isn't a thing a company builds. It's the next chapter of the internet overall' a prediction that hit wide of the mark

Cynics would also suggest that the shift to opening up more data to public access paved the way for further monetization of user data. This would come
in the form of Open Graph, which the company launched in May that same year.

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On the other hand, the modern age has given rise to more encrypted services like WhatsApp , Signal and Discord, with mostly open platforms, like Facebook's previous incarnation, suffering from data collection scandals and privacy breaches.



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