Scientists warned Zuck the FB theory of interaction would make people miserable

Why did Mark Zuckerberg take a moral stance about how people present themselves online? And why did he feel the need to enforce that stance? I thought Silicon Valley's mantra was, "We just build tools for people to express themselves how they want," but it seems more and more that they use the tools to enforce behavioral norms.

The worst thing about Facebook is that it makes it difficult to discover new people, or at least users either don&#x27;t trust the site, or the friend relationship is so binary and exclusive that it doesn&#x27;t make people be more open.<p>You can&#x27;t even organize public meetups based on interest and let people do things. It only starts with the friend relationship, but there is nothing that encourages people interacting with each other online before becoming friends.<p>I think zuck is advocating for people to be more honest, but the site is clearly not designed for discovery. Tinder works great for that.

In practice people use different apps for different purposes, and isn&#x27;t that a good thing? Why do it all in Facebook?

Sidenote, is anyone else amused that boingboing became relevant again, if only briefly?

Read the FB Manifesto.