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by coopdog 5001 days ago
Hell yes. Cases in point:

- Accidentally opening all profiles up, causing users to have to reset them.

- Accidentally setting all photos to public, causing users to have to reset them.

- Syncing many peoples contacts to @facebook email addresses, in many cases deleting the users original contact lists

- (the last straw) - letting private messages go onto the public wall. Facebook deny's this happened, but I personally know two people (no friend of a friend business) who this has happened to. In both cases there were very private messages from their ex-partners, the kind of thing they'd take extreme alarm to if they were on their wall. Both quickly deleted all messages when it happened, rather than saving the evidence.

Move fast and break things when there's private info at stake, is not the correct way to do things. I stopped posting to facebook and am going to close my account (and move to G+, who have better quality controls), and have non-tech friends who have decided that's the way to go after the private messages thing.