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Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public

Posted by kdawson on from the red-face-book dept.

jamie passes along a Newsfactor piece that begins "In a not-uncommon development for the social-networking leader, Facebook's recently released privacy controls are leaving the company a bit red-faced. As a result of a new policy that by default makes users' profiles, photos, and friends lists available on the Web, almost 300 personal photos of founder Mark Zuckerberg became publicly available, a development that had gossip sites like Gawker yukking it up."

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  1. Karma. by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a b****.

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    Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
  2. Re:From Mark: by Khyber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    BULLSHIT.

    He set his shit to private, it got exposed, he said "I meant to do that" and then most everything went private again.

    Give me a fucking break. He got caught with his pants down and egg on his face.

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    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  3. Re:I'll never use Facebook by TheKidWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Facebook is the government database the government never had but wishes they did.

  4. Poor choice of defaults by StuartHankins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any system which defaults to "share everything" is a fail. You should never have to opt-out, only opt-in, to release data. Otherwise it's way too easy to screw up and show something private to everyone (as in this example).

    1. Re:Poor choice of defaults by Eskarel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I wish people would stop making the assumption that because someone shares something on facebook they want to share it with the world.

      There are levels of privacy and sharing between telling everyone everything and hiding in a secure lead lined bunker somewhere. I might want to share pictures of my kid with my friends and family who live in other states and other countries without wanting to share that photo with the entire rest of the world.

      The reason for using a social site is to allow you to exchange information in a controlled way. If I wanted to just share information with the world I'd stick it up on a public facing web page and let google find it. The problem is that Mark Zuckerberg is an idiot and presumes exactly like you do, that because I want to show my mother her grandchild that I want to share that same information with him and everyone else. Guess what I don't.

      I know that the social networking evangalists seem to think that everyone should be metaphorically naked for the world to see and we'd all get along better, and the tin foil hat brigade thinks we should never give our real names even to our spouses, but a lot of times, people want somewhere in the middle.