In answer to the NYT question: Facebook has not worn out its welcome

The Lede, at the New York Times, has a post today about how Facebook may have worn out its welcome: it is being criticized and banned from all portions of the globe:

The Associated Press is reporting that Syria has blocked its citizens’ access to the popular Facebook social networking web site. No official reason has yet been given, but the A.P. report suggests that it may have to do with Damascus worrying that Israelis were using the site to somehow infiltrate Syrian social networks.

But I think Facebook is still good. Two nuggets from the past two days stick out in my mind that relate directly to this:

Nugget number 1: Lee Lorenzen said in his presentation that pushing too far with Beacon was (probably) not only intentional, but a very smart strategic move by Zuckerberg. In the long run, people will remember only that he responded to user complaints and ramped things back.

By going a mile and backing up .1, he got to .9 miles. If he’d gone half a mile, people would have still complained, and he would have ended up at .4.

Nugget number 2: At lunch on Day 2, Todd Sawicki was telling us that we complain about Facebook because we realize that we need to use it. It’s like Windows in 1995 - you complain because it’s so essential.

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