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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
    All this talk about privacy reminds me of the revolution. Back in the sixties and shortly thereafter, plenty of part-time JC stoonts were against whatever was, and they met in groups over coffee at the Student Union and said so. They also talked about how their phones were all tapped and FBI agents were peeking at them through subterranean curtains every minute of the day.

    The Freedom of Information Act allowed them years after to seek out their various CIA dossiers, which were universally nonexistant, for what interest had the gumint in duds who only sat around talking? The revvies could not understand why come it was the Karl Marx of Chaney County had failed to arouse the slightest attention.

    A greater fear than being watched is being ignored.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
    Holy crap, they've also made changing your multi-layered privacy settings a confusing marathon. I want that half-hour back I just spent double-checking everything, and I know there's still options I missed...
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12/10/09

    @unclevanya: Yeah, like ... if you want to set up your new Privacy Settings to be For Reals, you have to find your name on the list and Opt In. That list is three hundred and fifty million long, and not alphabetical.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
    I limited Facebook's ability to share this information by disabling my account permanently.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    12/10/09

    @Swifter: If I didn't need it to stay in touch with certain people I would have ditched out long ago.
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    Image of cpjones cpjones
    12/10/09

    @Swifter: But how will you be able to play Farmville, Scrabble, and Mafia Wars now?
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    Image of filthy tongue filthy tongue
    12/10/09

    @Swifter: A-men. No amount of keeping in touch was worth the paranoia Facebook engendered in me. The internets is for anonymity, damn it!
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/10/09

    @cpjones: Somehow, I'll manage.
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    Image of Wenceslaus Wenceslaus
    12/10/09

    @Swifter: It's only part that I can't restrict others from finding my name and photo - although I'm not cool with that being available to anyone on the internet, it'd be relatively hard to find. It's that I can't prevent my friends from making their friends available to anyone who can see their profile, meaning anyone who can see my friends' profiles can see me, including people who frankly don't need to know where I live or what I look like now.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/10/09

    @Wenceslaus: Just disable your account and be done with it, for heaven's sake!
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    Image of cassandra cassandra
    12/10/09

    @Wenceslaus: @Swifter: Facebook has a "temporarily deactivate account" function. Very useful.
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    Image of Wenceslaus Wenceslaus
    12/10/09

    @Swifter: I actually already deleted it permanently.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
    Um, Mike Byhoff's mustache? Really?
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
    I am relatively sure this is in contravention of Canada's aggressive privacy protection laws, and Facebook is gonna hafta suck back, HARD.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
    Great, so all my haterz will see I'm friendless
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12/10/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: I was just gonna complain to ol' Mark over there about that. There should be an option to buy about a hundred faux-friends when you log on, with celebrities going for a premium.
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    12/10/09

    [www.flickr.com]
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    Image of Doree Shafrir Doree Shafrir
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
    I'm a fan of Howard Kurtz? How can I blame Mark Zuckerberg for this, too?
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    12/10/09

    In reply to Our Trains Are Very Delicate Okay?
    Don't even think about spitting your gum out in the tracks...
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    Image of twig twig
    12/01/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    TechCrunch covers the industry gossip better than almost anyone else, but there's one way they get this story right. So come on, Ryan, show us what you're made of. Arrington's post is fishy as hell.
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    Image of narnio narnio
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    #hahahahahahaha
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    Popular Mechanics? A million or so of the world's best minds spend thirty years inventing the internet, and there's still a Popular Mechanics?
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
    I was just about to email this to you, Ryan. Of course, I should have known that you'd already be on top of it.

    I wonder if Popular Mechanics is going to release a statement, or if they'll go the Perez Hilton route (Castro) and just never speak of the incident again.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    I hate when that happens.

    /5th grade
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    I'm figuring the pilots were also on their laptops checking Facebook when they were supposed to be paying attention to Heavy Clouds(tm) and ZOMG!Lava.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    11/19/09

    In reply to Do Not Build Your Runway Next to the Lava
    Will no one consider the feelings of the lava? You struggle valiantly to emerge from the bowels of the earth, you're dying of heat stroke and just when you get some fresh air and you're finally cooling off, a plane lands on top of you.
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