Why Did Mark Zuckerberg Make Himself Unblockable on Facebook? [Mysteries]

What do you do whenever you’re the CEO of a firm faced with persistent privacy concerns? When you’re Mark Zuckerberg, you are making it so users of your service can’t block you. Mark Zuckerberg recently, mysteriously, became unblockable on Facebook.

TechCrunch highlights a funny single-serve website, blockzuck.com. Its only purpose: to indicate that whenever you try and block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, thus hiding your profile from him, you’re greeted with a ” general block failed error.” You could block anyone else on Facebook-you simply can’t block the Zuck!

But, in keeping with the fellow behind Blockzuck,com, (who prefers to remain anonymous) you was once ready to block Zuckerberg. He started Blockzuck.com to convince people to just do that, and had to update his site once Zuckerberg became unblockable. He told us in an email:

My original idea was to start out some campaign to get people to block Zuckerberg on Facebook, as form of a half-assed privacy protest. I came up with the basis after the last major privacy uproar, and decided to put it aside for the following person who came along, which was Places.

Until very recently, it *was* possible to block him; once I publish the original version of the positioning, I discovered that he couldn’t be blocked anymore. That’s so much more interesting than my original lame idea, so I updated the location to reflect that.

So, why did Mark Zuckerberg become unblockable on Facebook? Who knows. Maybe he or an engineer discovered about Blockzuck.com and wanted to retaliate. Or perhaps he just gets a kick out of creeping people out. I’m a creep… I’m a weirdo…, etc.

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