p2pnet news | P2P:- Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says he’s sorry.

Sorry for trying to censor 01238 magazine for posting stuff he didn’t like?

Because it couldn’t possibly be his terrible Beacon balls-up. After all, he and his merry admen went there eyes wide open, looking to rip off FaceBook users, thinking they’d be too stupid to see what was going on.

But that’s what it is.

In a Facebook apology, Zuckerberg says all he was trying to do was, “help people share information with their friends about things they do on the web”.

He and his team, “simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it,” he says.

But he hasn’t given up.

In an attempt to get out from under, “We were excited about Beacon because we believe a lot of information people want to share isn’t on Facebook, and if we found the right balance, Beacon would give people an easy and controlled way to share more of that information with their friends,” he says.

Bollocks.

He was looking for a way to sell data tracked by Facebook, and it had absolutely nothing to do with helping users in any way, shape, manner or form.

And not only Facebook folks.

Its Beacon ad system tracks the activities of all users of its third-party partner sites, “including people who have never signed up with Facebook or who have deactivated their accounts,” says Computer Associates.

So will Zuckerberg soon be apologising to surfers at large?

But back to Zuckerberg as he tries to weasel out of it, “On behalf of everyone working at Facebook, I want to thank you for your feedback on Beacon over the past several weeks and hope that this new privacy control addresses any remaining issues we’ve heard about from you,” he says.

That gurgling sound you hear is Facebook sinking.

Slashdot it!

Also See:
posting stuff he didn’t like – Microsoft’s sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children, December 3, 2007
Facebook – Thoughts oin Beacon, December 5, 2007
never signed up – Facebook Beacon also tracks non-users, December 5, 2007

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