How To Write Like Mark Zuckerberg 139
newguy77 found a story talking about the results of a linguistics expert being brought in on the Facebook ownership case. They claim the emails are faked since Zuckerberg uses apostrophes correctly and opens sentences more casually than the damning emails.
Re:Who needs privacy when you've got PHP? (Score:3, Insightful)
You forgot the government.
Re:Not a Reliable Method (Score:5, Insightful)
Zuckerburg's writing style of 2003 needs to be compared with emails of that era, not today. Furthermore, he could have been off on some random day in 2003 because he had a cold and wasn't thinking. This just isn't that reliable of method of determining authorship.
It is a reliable method of creating doubt though. Once he has doubt on his side, the case becomes a lot more difficult for his opponent.
Re:Who needs privacy when you've got PHP? (Score:5, Insightful)
The basic difference between the two is how they manage harvested data.
So, you come to Google, "I have this gizmo for sale, help me sell it." and Google goes "Fine, we found 2000 customers who purchased your gizmo, ship the gizmos here and here (or let us handle it), and here's your money, after we took our cut."
So, you come to Facebook, "I have this gizmo for sale, help me sell it." and Facebook goes "Fine, pay us our cut and here's your 20000000 records of our users data, emails, phones, home addresses, we guess at least 2000 of them are bound to be willing to buy your gizmo if you market it to them."
It's definite oversimplification but it seems your data is much safer with Google than with Facebook.
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