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I like the sentiment, but I just want to share pictures from my latest beer pong victory man!

The point is that humans are horrible at risk modeling, particularly teen agers and those in early adulthood.

We as a society seem to be heading towards an expectation of less privacy, which makes Facebook and Google easier to tolerate.

The reason Facebook will fail is when a fundamental shift happens in society that Facebook isn't designed to handle. Facebook really came about because of a mobile population coupled with a need to track our social graphs. Even 30 or 50 years ago facebook couldn't have existed, because everyone you wanted to talk to was only a few minutes drive away.




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