Fuckerberg

Farcebook may or may not (but probably will) sell your personal information to anyone with a dollar in their hand without any regard whatsoever to your rights as a free individual in this world. Privacy is so 20th Century. Privacy is for assholes. By using Farcebook, you entrust its CEO, Stark Fuckerberg, with your identity, personhood and all the rights and privileges that derive thereof, and you certify that by so trusting Stark Fuckerberg, you are a “dumb fuck.”

2010 May 26, Matthew St. Amand, “Farcebook”, in Shut Up & Keep Shopping, Robot Voice Soliloquy, published 2011, →ISBN, page 242

Looking at my own feed, it’s notable how few friends update their status any more. Many are leaving altogether. Some are frustrated with the interface. Others complain about vanity, privacy and companies profiting from their personal lives. “It’s all about exploiting people to make Mark Fuckerberg money,” one summarised.

2011 June 15, Richard Godwin, “Time to close ranks against Facebook”, in London Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 1

“I can’t believe you laughed at me. You know I love Eric!” I threw back another glass of the cool dark liquid. / “Girl, please. That wannabe Mark Fuckerberg wasn’t never about shit and didn’t deserve you. And deep down you know you were bored with his computer-programming ass, anyway.[…]”

2014 June 24, Angela Burt-Murray, “Nia”, in Games Divas Play, Seattle, Wash.: Thomas & Mercer, →ISBN, page 18

Below is the infamous "Fuckerberg post" (as it has come to be known). The hyperlink took you to Novak's newly created Facebook page, about which he was clearly ambivalent. Weighing against the obvious marketing benefits of social media, in the author's mind, was allowing his privacy to be monetized by the person he christened "Freckles McBillionaire."

2014 September 19, John Novak, “Ask Novak Anything #2: What advice do you have for aspiring writers?”, in A Genius Forged by Death: The Collected Works of John Novak, Scranton, Pa.: Lafoda Press, published 2017, →ISBN, page 16

Hatred for Mark Zuckerberg has grown so widely a host of Internet sites have dubbed him ‘Mark Fuckerberg’. Here’s the top anti-Zuckerberg web mentions. […] Where Is Fuckerberg? The Yahoo! Answers site is filled with enquiries from pissed off Facebook users about how they can get in touch with Zuckerberg to ask about his site.

2015 April, Phil Hamilton, “Unsafebook”, in Aaron Tinney, editor, Loaded: The Original Men’s Magazine, London: Simian Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 123, column 3