ZDNet reports that a bug in Facebook’s “report abuse” tool can let people see photos in your account that you thought you had made private.
For example! Here someone has pulled out a bunch of Mark Zuckerberg’s “private” photos. Nothing scandalous, just the life of a boy-zillionaire. Surprisingly ordinary, really. Friends, food, Halloween candy, the president, dead chickens.
I’m sure Facebook will fix this, but remember: Don’t put anything on the Internet you don’t want everybody to see.
Same thing happened to myspace, except someone managed to put as many private photos onto a 80 gig torrent before they fixed the bug.
And never approve pics you don’t want your grandma to show to her bridge club.
I guess I understand why Zuckerberg is such a smarmy little fuckface, but I don’t understand why he has to be such an extremist about it.
Facebook can now get fined for this, right? Since the ruling the other day re Facebook’s privacy fuck-ups? I certainly hope so.
You sure you’re not hiring for a copy editor instead of a tech support person? “Let’s” is a contraction for “Let us,” not a third-person present tense form of the verb.
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Can someone do something about that apostrophe in the title of this post?
I am highly grammar-sensitive, and The Stranger and Mr. Hecht are displaying a shocking callousness to people with my condition.
Isn’t that the entire point of Facebook, though? To share every single nose-picking detail of your life with everyone else in the world? Privacy is so early 2000s.
@5, 6 – Oh, my. Sorry about that. Fixed.*
* Sorry for the sentence fragments. Sorry.
@ 7
EXACTLY. That’s why many people get upset when FB unilaterally and deliberately introduces a no-opt-out change. Imagine that! /sarcasn,
So, this definitely falls under Schadenfreude.
Awww, Poor Mr. Z and his no-longer private piccies.
Doesn’t it just make you want to point and laugh contemptuously?
Reason #1,362,458 why I’m not on Fazebook…
It’s all alright, because now we know what a billionaire’s kitchen looks like.
SEE WHAT IT’S LIKE, LITTLE MARKIE? SEE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS?