On Facebook, think before you copy and paste

October 3, 2015 at 7:00PM

Think before you copy and paste

Another week, another privacy hoax on Facebook. For the last time, people: You don't need to copy and paste every important status your friends ask you to copy and paste. This particular privacy message (something about FB supposedly charging a monthly fee to keep your data private) took hold of many people's statuses until FB debunked it. A fave response I saw: "Please copy and paste this to your status if you're constantly being asked to copy and paste things to your status by friends who copy and paste things to their statuses."

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