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Mark Zuckerberg, you're not really serious about Facebook's new privacy settings, are you?

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Let me get this straight.  You're saying that Facebook's new privacy settings have to do with some kind of bullshit notion that privacy settings are based on "social norms", and by "today's standards" those norms would include putting all of your pictures and information out on search engines, available for the whole world to see whether or not you asked for it that way?

Wow, asshole.  There's calling bullshit, and then there's what I'm about to do to you.

You mean to tell me that attracting large amounts of traffic from search engines isn't your strategy for raising advertising prices?  Congratulations on finally posting a profit last year, but don't expect that you can just jack up the price on that type of commodity until you've recouped on the billions that have been dumped into your little, fickle, Twitter-imitating fratboy site.

You're full of shit, Zuckerberg.  None of this has to do with "norms" or whatever.  It has nothing to do with letting developers outside of Facebook get in on all the fun from outside the network.  It has to do with you being a shitty liar in public, just like that asshole from Google. It has to do with underhanded default settings that are a poor attempt at generating more revenue and piss off your users.  It's about marching about as if you're all innovative and shit when you're really just sneaky.  I hope Facebook falls nice and hard and you wind up homeless, you lying son of a bitch.

Things you are not: honest, innovative, adhering to "social norms"

(Pic via Gawker)

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