Zuckerberg, in general, tends to refrain from taking the users' rights and desires into consideration. This is apparent from the Facebook Beacon privacy nightmare and now with his absolute disregard for user feedback on the redesign. To some degree, he has enough userbase capital to make decisions for "the greater good," as opposed to what users want, but I would argue that it's going to come back to bite him in the ass.
Facebook's success is somewhat of a chicken-egg scenario: it's successful because "everyone uses it" and everyone's using it because everyone ELSE is using it. The main driving force of a social networking site is the breadth of the social graph that it encompasses. No one is going to switch to a new service unless lots of their friends are already on it. Because of this, Zuckerberg seems to think that he has plenty of wiggle room to aggravate users, because they're too devoted to Facebook to leave. Hopefully either Facebook brass will wise up and pay attention to the public outcry or some frustrated user will come up with an alternative service to get Facebook in line with some good 'ol fashioned competition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40309 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
