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Your Privacy Is An Illusion
Facebook ad reveals blog mogul's bad taste in movies

By Owen Thomas, 7:09 PM on Wed Dec 26 2007, 2,147 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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At last, I've received a real-life, actual Beacon message — the controversial Facebook ad format that reports on your friends' activities elsewhere on the Web. The news flash? My boss, Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton, is going to see Will Smith thriller I Am Legend. This ruins my arthouse-film image of him. Damn you, Mark Zuckerberg!

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