Is Facebook committed to privacy of its users in your opinion?

[JoelKatz]

No, Facebook is not committed to privacy. In fact, it's committed to eliminating people's expectation of privacy, and it's doing a really good job at that. Oddly, most people don't mind.

As for Facebook stealing an idea, no, that's absurd. There is nothing clever about the *idea* of Facebook. MySpace had the same idea. The earliest ideas that made Facebook unique turned out to be bad ones, such as being only for people from Harvard. What makes Facebook so successful is the brilliant implementation of the idea of a social networking site. And that wasn't stolen from anyone.

The lawsuit was somewhat about the theft of an idea, but I think most people agree that that's just spin. In reality, Zuckerberg settled because he defrauded the Winkelvoss twins by making them think that they were his business partners as he worked on his own implementation. At a minimum, this allowed him to get to market before them. (Not that this really mattered. MySpace was to that market long before any of them, and Facebook still won out, at least for now.)