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April 9, 2011
Talk Nerdy to Me
It's probably not easy being a social networking site with 500 million members. For one thing, when you make a mistake, there's about 500 million people who notice it and complain. Throughout the course of its relatively short history, Facebook has made a few wrong turns along the way. Here's a look back at the unpopular redesigns, source-code leaks, privacy uproars, and user-error debacles that have made the world's most popular social-networking site a frequent target of criticism.
--Senior Editor Tim Moynihan

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