"Private messages" and "Facebook" are mutually exclusive.
Facebook is the antithesis of privacy.
Dreamers think FB has value.
Does the average person, of any age, think privacy has value?
What's more valuable?
Can all value be measured in monetary terms?
Web traffic has value (e.g. we can sell display ads). FB has web traffic. But so did milliondollarwebsite.com.
Privacy OTOH seems a long-lived concept, dating from at least the dawn of civilisation. I'd argue we have a lot more privacy than our ancestors. A trend that has continued unabated for hundreds of years. FB is but a {milli,micro,nano,pico}second in the evolutionary timeline of privacy.
Facebook is the antithesis of privacy.
Dreamers think FB has value.
Does the average person, of any age, think privacy has value?
What's more valuable?
Can all value be measured in monetary terms?
Web traffic has value (e.g. we can sell display ads). FB has web traffic. But so did milliondollarwebsite.com.
Privacy OTOH seems a long-lived concept, dating from at least the dawn of civilisation. I'd argue we have a lot more privacy than our ancestors. A trend that has continued unabated for hundreds of years. FB is but a {milli,micro,nano,pico}second in the evolutionary timeline of privacy.
I'm not throwing away my fig leaf just yet.