Not a complete surprise, but I suspect this is a strategic mistake from Zuckerberg. It's going to send the wrong message, at a time when Facebook is already under pressure and regulators in the EU are about to be given the most powerful privacy tools (and the most heavy penalty regime) they've ever had to work with.
> I wonder if regulators will just decide the split up facebook.
I keep hearing this suggestion and it makes no sense. Split into what? It would be like asking to split Google into one company doing the search and another one doing the ads. You're talking about loss leader strategy here and you cannot have a company whose only product is a loss leader. Majority of users won't pay to have search or social network. They value their privacy much lower and would trade it to get the services without direct monetary compensation.
> I keep hearing this suggestion and it makes no sense. Split into what?
Instagram, WhatsApp, and multiple competing Facebook copies (say Facebook Red, Facebook Green, and Facebook Orange) with a mandate to interoperate with each other and with other networks. Existing accounts are divided randomly and evenly between the copies.
The sibling comments make it clear what the split could be. In fact, people who say #deletefacebook are both overreacting and overreaching, when a much easier solution is at hand. It should really be #splitfacebook - that is an excellent outcome for most of the concerned parties (except maybe FB shareholders, which might as well be a good thing).
