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Facebook doesn't fool me – but I worry about how it affects you

  • Written by Joseph B. Walther, Professor of Communication; Director, Center for Information Technology and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara
I'm safe, but you should be more careful online.Rapeepat Pornsipak/Shutterstock.com

A number of prominent figures have called for some sort of regulation of Facebook – including one of the company’s co-founders and a venture capitalist who was one of Facebook’s early backers.

Much of the criticism of Facebook relates to how the...

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