With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: A Facebook Bill Of Rights

Facebook has come along way from being Mark Zuckerberg’s afterschool project. In fact “The Facebook Effect”, author David Kirkpatrick implied at TechCrunch Disrupt that Facebook was so influential it should be governed by the United Nations, “They are too important to our culture to be left to a private corporation” he said.

But, despite the fact that at 500 million users Facebook has just under twice the population of the United States, it is a business not a country. And while Google is currently the most visited site on the Internet with about 170,000 or so unique visits in July, the levels of interaction that we have with Facebook are more often and more intimate, which makes it the most important site on the Internet today.

The amount of time we spend on Facebook underscores the fact that we not only longer live in geopolitical countries but digital ones. And we often as citizens of these digital domains forget that the end game of  these platforms is “make money” which means that companies like Facebook must take steps to preserve business models based on lead generation and the monetization of user data, and that those steps are often against users’ best interests, literally.

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