Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Pics with Pot Pipe

With the new privacy settings on Facebook, profile photos of Mark Zuckerberg show him in his college days with beer and a marijuana pipe, says Prose Before Hoes:

Recent changes to Facebooks privacy and security settings now allow anyone to view albums by default. Thanks to intrepid work by PBH reporter AlvinBlah, a photo found in the Facebook album of Facebook CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg show him lounging in Ugg’s with a marijuana peace pipe from his college years. Check out the photo below. There is a pipe at the bottom right:

Techcrunch says:

 

A lot has been said recently about Facebook’s decision to re-write its privacy rulebook to encourage users to be more open about what they share. Privacy implications aside, at least it appears that Facebook is eating its own dogfood. First CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a bunch of person images, and now comes a big new feature that everyone should appreciate: Posting individual status updates to Twitter.

Yes, at some point this week, Facebook will roll out the ability to send your status updates to its rival, Twitter, we’ve confirmed. This will be built-in directly to its UI and not through some separate app you have to install, we’re told. It will be similar to the functionality it rolled out for its Pages feature in August, but this will be available on all profiles.

And you can see in the screenshots below, some Facebook employees are already testing it out. The status messages are sent to Twitter using the new fb.me URL shortener that Facebook launched today. Now the launch of fb.me makes a little more sense, Facebook is clearly getting on board with using Twitter as a platform to drive more traffic back to Facebook. Or having users simply use Facebook as their preferred third-party Twitter updater. But unlike MySpace, which also recently linked up with Twitter, this data exchange won’t be two-way. If you want to publish your tweets to your Facebook status, you’re still going to have to use a third-party app, like the Twitter one.

Is this a brave new world for Facebook, or a trap for their rival? Again, this feature will hit later this week.

Gawker said:

 

But when the system came out a week later, it actually gave less, not more, control over information. Gone was the ability to hide your friends list, profile pictures, fan pages and network membership from all strangers; Facebook’s new, formal privacy policy explicitly made this information public (despite the ability to keep some of it, like the friends list, off your profile page).

Meanwhile, the social network is pushing users hard to share their personal contentwith strangers. Users are being forced to update their privacy settings, with most default choices set to “Everyone” in the world or “friends of friends.”

Facebook’s business rationale here is clear. Rival Silicon Valley startup Twitter has grown extremely quickly in the last few years, almost entirely on the back of public content — from celebrities, people’s friends and users’ professional colleagues. That has brought traffic, money from search engines and a $1 billion valuation.

Facebook wants in on that kind of growth, and more public content means more traffic. But Facebook has historically been one of the most private of the social networks, functioning as a sort of safe alcove amid the chaos of MySpace and Friendster. “Privacy is a big reason Facebook users are so loyal,” BusinessWeek‘s Sarah Lacy wrote in 2006 (via Big Money).