Why Do We Hate Facebook?
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 1:50AM It started with a media report in France and in a few days the story had gone around the world. Our private Facebook messages from 2007 and 2008 were being made public on our walls. The story was picked up on U.S. blogs and was rapidly spread through Facebook status updates and on Twitter.
Facebook quickly issued a strong denial, tech journalists drilled deep, and the story was quickly debunked. Yet the message -- the cautionary status updates -- still spread, translated across Facebook's global communities. Even when faced with evidence to the contrary, people still insisted the story was true: They didn't care what Facebook said, they knew they didn't write that on their Wall, they never would have written that in public... More at rferl.
A good write-up.
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Personally I don't hate facebook - but then I only have friends, I don't include acquaintances and anybody who might contact me, so when things like that do occur it really isn't a biggie for me.