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Getting Personal. But Too Personal? (Face Book)
WSJ ^ | 6/7/10

Posted on 06/07/2010 12:10:23 AM PDT by paudio

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook Inc., the popular social-networking service, as a Harvard University student in 2004. Since then, it has grown to nearly 500 million users world-wide, and the company has a private market valuation of $25 billion.

Recently, Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook have had a rocky ride over the company's privacy practices. He talked with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg about privacy, personalization and the "social graph."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: billionaires; facebook; internet; privacy; zuckerberg
The definition of 'privacy' from Face Book founder.
1 posted on 06/07/2010 12:10:23 AM PDT by paudio
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To: paudio

It’s really quite simple.

Don’t ever put anything on Facebook (or any other site) that you wouldn’t want the whole world to read.

Problem solved.

(Oh, yeah - and use a dummy e-mail account so their “alerts” don’t clog up your inbox.)


2 posted on 06/07/2010 12:13:59 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: shibumi

What you said...in spades!


3 posted on 06/07/2010 12:24:58 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: shibumi
Dropped Facebook over the last two weeks. Of all the folks I found, I figured I could still correspond with them via e-mail.

It was fairly simple. A couple of clicks and don't log in for two weeks. Then, "poof", the account's gone.

4 posted on 06/07/2010 6:03:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
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