On: Zuck's Events (Facebook Privacy Hole Demo)

[pak]

Or what your friends give it, or your friends' friends, or anybody else that can tag something that relates back to your profile... see the problem?

[scott_s → pak]

In theory, yes, in practice, no. That sort of problem exists without Facebook.

[jrockway → pak]

That you are friends with strange people?

[pak → jrockway]

Even if I take your bait and leap to the conclusion that everybody spends their life pruning their Facebook friend lists, have your friends never said anything embarassing about you? As a prank, in a fight, etc.?

Thanks to Facebook, it can be in a thousand people's news feeds in a minute, and with the permanence of computers and the internet, saved forever on a hundred hard drives, some of which belong to people who are definitely not among your friends (that includes Facebook the company itself).

[jrockway → pak]

I fight the Internet with Internet memes. In this case, "pics or it didn't happen".

[anthonyb → jrockway]

One good meme deserves another: http://failbook.com/2010/04/14/funny-facebook-fails-that-was...