Behind Facebook's privacy debacle - Facebook - Salon.com

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A discussion of how Facebook's recent changes to privacy settings may be having an effect on the company and its users.

Captured on 17 May 2010 from www.salon.com

Behind Facebook's privacy debacle

The site screwed up, big-time. But is this the beginning of the end, or just the cost of social networking?

By Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Since making the profile information of its 400 million users more, oh, let's call it "accessible," last month, the 6-year-old social networking site has felt the wrath of its populace. To listen to all the apocalyptic talk, you'd think FB is doomed to become the ghost town of MySpace or even, gasp, Friendster. Watch your back, Twitter, because the Net can turn on you fast.

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