A good analysis. Traditionally I haven’t seen many in depth articles in the social space, mostly emotional reactions or people severely misunderstanding product positioning because they don’t personally use it (2 years ago this was Snap). And even if they are a user, most people have a hard time articulating the value proposition of a free social product.
Could FB do it? Yes. Are people stupid enough to buy it? Probably. Are they going to actually deliver what they are claiming? Hell no. Zuck will suck up any communications in his platforms and store it forever and make it available to various governments to spy on people and for corporations to exploit for profit. Nutters will continue to rile up other nutters privately but it will be more difficult to point your finger at FB.
Clearly this was not taking the Zuckster seriously.. it was clearly sarcasm...<p>< Another set took Zuckerberg entirely too seriously:<p>I am not a stock market
person but the fact that
Facebook’s stock hardly
budged on a day that Mark
Zuckerberg said he planned
to pivot the company to a
totally untested new
business model seems odd
to me<p>— Casey Newton >
tl;dr: Facebook plans to focus more on "privacy" in its marketing. Nothing changes about the data collection from a technical/product point of view. Question is whether people will believe that Facebook now is a privacy-focused company or not.