According to AllFacebook.com, all those with hearts, hands, and minds at Facebook are being called together for a mutual poking session on the increasingly troubling subject of privacy. This is said to be taking place Thursday at 4 p.m. Pacific Time.

While Eilliot Schrage, the company's vice president of public policy, tried to answer some questions about privacy posed by readers of The New York Times this week, it appears that some at Facebook, as well as those in the real world, might be feeling a tad queasy.

Schrage's rationalization that "joining Facebook is a conscious choice by vast numbers of people who have stepped forward deliberately and intentionally to connect and share" has caused many to share the thought that perhaps Facebook's slightly strange, bamboozling attitude to privacy requires a little more simplicity and clarity.

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