Re:Facebook reveals friends list even when it’s set to private
by philh on Friday November 29, 2013 @05:08PM
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> Right, when preferences are in conflict do you protect the person who cares or the person who doesn't?
There is a cost to always protecting the person who cares, which is that people may self-modify to care more, making cooperation harder. (Or just pretend to care more than they actually do.)
It's not necessarily a worry in this particular case, but it's worth considering in the general case.
There is a cost to always protecting the person who cares, which is that people may self-modify to care more, making cooperation harder. (Or just pretend to care more than they actually do.)
It's not necessarily a worry in this particular case, but it's worth considering in the general case.