Published November 23rd, 2007 by
'Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?' – Read/WriteWeb Blog Post
‘Read/WriteWeb’ latest blog post is titled “Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?”. [RSS Feed Excerpt]
Read/WriteWeb’ latest blog post is titled Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?.
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Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?
Political action and consumer advocacy organization MoveOn this week launched a public campaign against Facebook’s new Project Beacon advertising system (our coverage). MoveOn characterizes the ad system as “a huge invasion of privacy” and has launched a petition to get Facebook to make the system completely opt-in (rather than opt-out as it is currently). MoveOn even blames Facebook for ruining Christmas, including in a press release sent out to the media today quotes from users like this one: “I saw my gf [girlfriend] bought an item I had been saying I wanted…so now part of my Christmas gift has been ruined. Facebook is ruining Christmas!” – Matthew from New York. Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?…
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