There would be a lot more information, and a lot more transparency.That was really interesting to us. At the same time we had no idea that we would build a business that would shape that in any way.I was just building something that would let me and the people around me stay in touch.But then it just kind of grew and grew.The cool irony is that now we are able to have an impact on some of those lofty things we used to discuss in our college dorm room.Has Facebook changed our ideas about privacy?I think social norms have evolved a bit.When we were just getting started five years ago, people were not sure whether they wanted to put anything about themselves on the Internet at all.It was more about control. People want to feel that they can put something up and can control who sees it and if they want to take it down, they can do that.By giving people that control, we enable them to share more stuff. The debate about privacy is really a debate about control.The system we’re building is one that strives to give people more control over their information.What will Facebook look like five years from now?Facebook will be less about Facebook.com and more about this underlying system and platform that we’re building.What we’re trying to do is be more about letting people use their information on any site or platform they want.We launched Facebook Connect last year, and we now have more than 15,000 sites using it, and that’s just a start.
