Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University

Facebook: Starting Over

December 15, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

Like many other people, I have a Facebook account. One reason is to keep track of what’s happening in the planet’s largest social network, including what application developers and users are doing there.

Another is that some of my friends–actual friends–are using the site. Facebook helps me stay in touch.

But the privacy fiasco of the past few days has left me feeling that I really can’t entirely trust Facebook, even with the limited amount of things I’ve said and done on the site since I got an account several years ago.

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