In just the past two weeks, Facebook and its subsidiaries have done at least three really unpopular things: 1. Spammers and other people you're not friends with can now message you for $1, and their messages will land in your "main inbox." 2. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, tried to start selling your photos to advertisers, before public pressure, thanks in no small part to this site (or not), caused the company to back off its plan. And 3. New privacy settings, designed to simplify who sees what, instead gave many people the startling revelation that their grandparents were seeing photos of the two-story beer bong that they thought were hidden, and that they were generally not nearly as private online as they would like to be. (Privacy screw-ups can happen to anyone. I work in media, see it as my job to keep up with what Facebook is doing, and I wasn't even fucking aware that friends could see which Yahoo articles I've been reading. My dad was on Facebook Sunday and asked me if I enjoyed their piece on the U.S. Olympic sprinter who became an escort.)
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