Gary Bertoia's List: Facebook TOS

That's what Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the estimated 175 million users of his social-networking Web site Monday afternoon after the company had stepped into yet another bad-publicity mess of its own creation.

n response to Mark Zuckerberg's privacy memo to Facebook users, BoomTown writer Kara Swisher borrows an infamous line from former Sun Chief Scott McNealy: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." Yep, and "that goes double on social networks," she adds

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