Facebook Connect and Facebook Platform (for developers) are a big part of the strategy that has grown Facebook into a site with 350 million users.  That growth seems to be the primary goal of Mark Zuckerberg, rather than taking extra measures to protect the privacy of its userbase.

In an interview with Techcrunch, Zuckerberg answers a question about privacy by saying “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.”

If Facebook is to pay its investors, it has to focus on growth and monetization, but neither of those are conducive to improved privacy protection for the users, who have undergone changes to the privacy policy twice in the last year.

It matters to me, I believe strongly in protecting and safeguarding personal information because I’ve seen the lengths people will go to to get it (and what they’ll do with it), but I wonder how much it matters to others who seek a louder voice in the crowd or, in Facebook’s case, a direct link to all the voices.

Here’s the video from USTREAM.