It’s impossible to grasp the consequences or outcomes of new technology, especially when that technology is developed by a twenty-something hacker.That much was already clear in January 2010, when Mark Zuckerberg told TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington that Facebook isn’t just a place to connect with your friends. It was a place to be more public than ever before. “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time,” he said. “But we viewed that as a really important thing, to always keep a beginner’s mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it.”Zuckerberg wasn’t alone. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt moralized a month earlier on his blog, just a year after news about his own personal life – a breakup with a mistress – sparked concerns among shareholders.Read the rest over at Motherboard.