Human relationships have always been about selective ignorance.

Mark Zuckerberg believes that presenting differing personas to different audiences displays "a lack of integrity"[1] and thus Facebook is deliberately engineered to encourage an individual to present their "true" self to all "friends" equally.

[1]http://www.michaelzimmer.org/2010/05/14/facebooks-zuckerberg...

> Mark Zuckerberg believes that...

Any self-respecting person should not care what comes next.

I guess it's edgy to dismiss celebrity outright, but Mark Zuckerberg is the steward of one of the largest social phenomena of our time, so I should think it matters a great deal what he believes--not necessarily because we should agree, but because of the potentially significant effects of those beliefs.

I agree. It's important to criticize him. Harshly. He's the harbinger of a change whose proportions are yet to be fully understand, but it's like we're all living guinea pigs of his experiment and happy to be that. I don't see how we can be fine with putting a self-declared mildly autistic little genius in charge of defining the nature of social interactions in the new millennium. "here's what I think relationships should be like", says such child playing with his own huge money-churning game.

In contrast, WeChat (which is the closest equivalent to Facebook in China) has a number of features that are specifically tailored to allow for these different social contexts. For example, comments on a post are only visible to you if you're friends with the commenter, not just the OP. [1]

[1] https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/three-moments-with-wecha...

Mark also has problems functioning in the real world.

The act of observation changes the observed.

There are many ways to observe.

In whose interest does Facebook observe?

Do not reveal our surveillance, Gorlock!

It's not unusual to have plenty of friends and relatives who are great in small doses, but not so great if you're hearing from them every day.

That doesn't change the fact that no one wants to see their loved ones behaving in undesirable ways. If you abandoned anyone who behaves poorly when enabled by Facebook/alcohol/$VICE, rather than helping them, then you wouldn't be left with many friends or family.

Does it matter? Facebook is the factor you can change.

I believe the format itself, that is, text, not voice nor face to face contact makes conflict more likely.