Don’t Be a Zucker

NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me - PETER SAGAL, host:

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SAGAL: Very good, Facebook. The…

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SAGAL: …social networking site this week announced new privacy protections for their millions of users who innocently posted their photos and personal messages thinking it was just for their friends. And the next thing you know, it all went public and they had to resign their Senate seats.

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SAGAL: The new privacy settings will let users instantly and easily protect themselves from strangers. This means pictures of the crazy night at Sigma Delta will only be seen by your 1,500 close friends and anybody they know, and anybody they know, until eventually somebody sends you a hilarious video of a nude guy vomiting into a flower pot. And you laugh at it for a good five minutes before you realize it’s you.

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SAGAL: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, he’s defending this and saying there’s no danger. But he was on record, apparently somebody found a tape of him early on, saying that the people who would put private information on Facebook were stupid. He did not call them stupid. He used a term I cannot repeat on the radio. So in his honor, we’re going to name such people Zuckers.

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