No, a legal notice won't protect you from Facebook -- so stop posting them

Reblogged from GigaOM:

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Here we go again -- Facebook users want to ward off Mark Zuckerberg and his friends by posting random legal mumbo jumbo on their profile. This is ridiculous. Stop it.

In case you missed it, an old hoax has resurfaced that suggests Facebook (s fb) users can tell the company what to do by publishing a rambling notice. This means that people's Facebook feeds are once again being sprayed by items like this one:

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A great summary of the current 'disclaimer' hoax doing the rounds. My thoughts are that by posting something like this you are essentially invalidating the original terms of use for the site.

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