Mark Zuckerberg Thinks Privacy Is For Old People

According to the Constitution you have to be 35 years old to be elected President. There is obviously no such regulation for social media moguls — despite the ever increasing power they wield over our daily lives — though judging from some recent comments from Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg maybe there should be.

Speaking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend 25-year-old Zuckerberg told the crowd that privacy should no longer be considered a “social norm.”

“People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people…That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.”

Or at least Zuckerberg’s definition of it has, which might also explain why the recent change in privacy settings was implemented with such a heavy, oblivious hand….this is the new norm! Which of course is true in the sense that thanks to Facebook privacy is likely not a social norm for most people under the age of twenty-five. Privacy, however is very much a social norm for most people over the age of 25 and/or who do not live in college dorms. Alas, with the increasing prevalence of Facebook it would seem all of its 350 million users — not just the under-25 ones — are increasingly at the mercy of mindset of a generation who grew up sharing. Like it or not if Zuckerberg has his way, our online social lives may never actually get out of college.

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