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by crunchlibrarian 2753 days ago
The weird song and dance of luring developers by offering so much personal data to them for free in the early days of Facebook's API always creeped me out. I remember thinking about this all the time back in 2007-2010 or so and wondering how people could be so naive and when it would all blow up.

Blow up would have been nice. I was overly optimistic in those days.