Facebook owns up and a million bloggers dive to the keyboards and Ipads. Mea culpa says Mark and about time too. http://preview.tinyurl.com/d7qcnkb
Like the rest I could not resist a comment. My take is the same as it has always been when our beloved internet demonstrates that the problem is the human being not the interface, or inYERface as it tends to become.
Problem is that each new technology creates its own monsters because that's the nature of the human condition. The invention of fire led to the first home burning down! Wall art includes pornography just as mass printing, the television, video and the internet have done. And each event initially dwarfed the benefits and threatened the development. Even one to one comms like the telephone allowed heavy breathers!
So with the internet. When Mark Zuckerburg added functional inter-mail to an interactive web site he took the nascent social media into new territory. And he and his people made some silly errors along the way that could have scuppered an idea that, as it matures, increasingly looks a Good Thing. What was wrong was that it took a Federal Court to make them accept that you cannot take people for a ride. But hey, look at the UK and Leveson - Mucky Murdoch actually killed the NoW in the mistaken belief that it would all go away!
So good on yer Mark. Now, there are a few other things you could sort out. Like ensuring the conent is a bit more moderated so innocent people do not end up being villified by anonymous monsters.
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