online operating system?

Facebook in other countries

making sure people’s info stays private is key
we aren’t openly working with governments
but we have to follow the law
we try not to get into situations where following the law compromises privacy
how do we approach china?
- either no servers in china
  - then they can slow down facebook
- or servers in china
  - they can arrest the server operators
there are ways to position these things
create minimal exposure
people’s private info should be accessible to only their own friends
core to fb

i got a lot of pushback from the community
“You don’t have the right to take my name or bday or anything and put it on a different site”
how to become more portable with data when some users think that it shouldn’t be portable
z: in news feed if you share some info and then take access away it gets remove from their newsfeed
if we syndicated newsfeed via RSS, you couldn’t ensure that would happen
these are some of the privacy concerns
earlier he wouldn’t commit to matching others’ efforts

regional networks
policy decision to map out the regional networks based on US diplomatic efforts.
we’re not in the business of defining countries
we aren’t trying to impose any editorial voice on what are countries
move away from the current network structure and let them have their own networks.

some of his friends have stopped using FB
they can’t articulate why
they have dropped off – why do you think zuck?
z: a lot of the shifts are in the platform ecosystem
increasingly platform apps are a big way ppl interact
use the social graph info for other apps to leverage
we’ve aligned people’s incentives poorly
distribution rewards, not necessary longterm value or trust rewards
ecosystem shifts are moving in that direction
20 or 15 is a good number of viral invites
apps spammed individuals when they could go beyond that
if apps are providing real value and trustworthy to real ppl then users won’t find them spammy
now we’re going to retard their distribution if they’re spammy
we’re moving away from the # of installs and towards the amount of meaningful trusted content they’re producting.
this will achieve our goal of helping ppl communicate and hare info easily.
if the apps are helping out in that experience then it’s totally positive
that is part of the trend we’re seeing and why we’re shifting
should be good for users, new devs, existing devs (make them more trustworthy and ehlp users generat more info)
this is only going to hurt SPAMMERS>