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> But Facebook's track record seems to be to befuddle the user and trick or opt them into sharing things wider than they understand or want.

Just like Google did with Buzz

That was such a clusterfuck that for most people Google is in the same bucket as Facebook when it comes to 'caring about user privacy'

I never considered any of FB privacy curtailments to be 'clusterfucks' in the sense that they involved Buzz-level incompetence, bad planning, or lack of foresight.

To the contrary, I always felt FB knew exactly what it was doing, and was operating in a very calculated way. Three steps forward and (maybe) one step back.

Beacon?

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