I’m a Facebook user and enjoy its services, but I wasn’t crazy about beacon. I’m happy that they changed the program into an opt-in. It seemed invasive to have this as an opt-out. Frankly I felt the program went against the spirit of Facebook, which was about choice of privacy.

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