Mark Zuckerberg?s privilege to be forgotten

Filed under:Facebook put billions of people on the record, but a record of how that happened may be lostA lengthy piece from Steven Levy in Wired today revealed parts of a 2006 journal from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. You can read the Wired story here, and also our take on the most notable part of it, which is that Zuckerberg once considered something wild called “dark profiles.” But what struck me most was the fact that what we saw today in Wired may be the only glimpse we ever get at Zuckerberg’s intimate journal record — because he destroyed the rest of it. Facebook’s account closure process still tries to guilt users about quitting, when what they should give them is a single button that deletes it all.Between his destroyed journal records and Facebook messages, we know now that Zuckerberg was able to keep significant parts of his life and his company’s history private.