Diego Castaneda: Privacy by default would reduce unwanted interactions for teens at the expense of growth

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"1) Your data pretty succinctly shows that taking away unwanted interactions via private default settings is likeley to lead to a potentially untenable problem with engagement and growth. 2)This is supported by qualitative data that teens dont want to miss out on discovering, connectin, and engaging. 3) The data also shows that we would fix a lot o the unwanted interaction problem by making DM's private. At what cost. to paraphrase ████ how do we increase safety without decreasing value? incedentally, his original wording 'What are the other ways we could increase safety without decreasing value?' is indicative of him wanting to keep the defaults." "[G]ive us a story that frames our decision that we've already made around defaulting (safety vs value frame) 2) add any other insights that come up regarding new teens DM interactions"
— Unnamed employee