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Comment by casey | Hacker News Reader

Too bad they were looking at his page: http://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg

Not his profile: http://www.facebook.com/zuck

The article is flawed, but his profile still doesn't seem to play by the rules. When I go to facebook.com/zuck there is no option for me to request adding him as a friend. In normal privacy settings you can specific that either everyone can add you as a friend or only friends of friends. I have two mutual friends with Mark Zuckerberg.

So either his profile has some additional privacy setting (i.e., to only send out, not receive, friend requests) or something else is at play (like he has hit the friend limit -- I'm not sure what that looks like, to be honest).

"In normal privacy settings you can specific that either everyone can add you as a friend or only friends of friends."

There was a big privacy setting change last October that you could opt out of. So it is theoretically possible that he did. (I wish I had. I didn't understand the ramifications at the time.)

Obviously, if this is in fact the case, it is still a case of Zuckerberg not playing by the rules he is setting for everyone else.

Mark Zuckerberg
Does anyone else think it's weird that the sky is red at 2am?

Yesterday at 1:53am

Looks "open" enough to me.

Not weird at all. In Purgatory, the sky is red all the time...

Then again, the update before that was on April 24. Lots of likes though. I guess he doesn't like sharing in free-form text all that much.

Or all he's other updates have been friends only. It wouldn't surprise me if he has now recently opened his own account up more in a sign of support for the new settings.

Maybe that should be the standard privacy setting. Everyone on facebook should set their privacy setting to match Mark's.

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