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On tomorrow’s show we’re talking about the new Facebook groups. You can make one, you can add friends to it without getting their permission first, those friends can add their friends:
and the whole thing can be public to all 500 million people on Facebook. This openness lead to Mark Zuckerberg being added to a NAMBLA group, a prank pulled by one of his (former?) friends to point out this privacy issue.
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You can choose not to be on Facebook at all, of course. But even then, someone MIGHT PUT YOU ON THERE ANYWAY.
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Also, when you delete a Facebook photo? Yeah, it doesn’t always GET deleted.
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