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Facebook announced its latest data mining feature Graph Search last week to much fan fare.

Throughout the presentation, Mark Zuckerberg emphasised that user’s privacy was at the forefront of the developers’ minds when creating the feature.

The problem is Facebook’s byzantine privacy settings which could mean your data gets leaked.

Enter Tom Scott and his Tumblr of actual searches focusing on the juxtapositions between the things you’ve probably absentmindedly liked over the years.

There’s the creeptastic:

There’s the potentially life-threatening:

And, of course, the simply amusing:
Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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A Boards.ie thread from February 2005.

A year after Mark Zuckerberg registered the domain name TheFacebook.com.

And four months before he changed it to Facebook.com.

Also: we’re pretty sure this guy (below) was studying economics:

Uh Oh … TCD gets added to “The Facebook” (Boards.ie, February 2005)

(Thanks Gilleechi)

A cartoon by Mick Stevens that recently got the New Yorker temporarily banned from Facebook by the Zuck’s outsourced censorship brigade (recently exposed by Gawker).

Stevens later redrew the cartoon, removing all trace of nudity. And New Yorker cartoon humour. Which can be fairly nuanced at the best of times, in fairness.

Nipplegate (New Yorker)

(Thanks Lars Biscuits)