Last night a ton of sites suddenly became interested in the fact that you can’t block Mark Zuckerberg. In fact, he’s the only person on the site who you can’t block. When you attempt to block him, the alert, which is pictured to the right, shows up, to let you know that the “Block failed”. The “issue” was first posted by BlockZuck.com, and has since become widely known.
Jack McKenna, a writer for Techcrunch, argues that “Facebook is getting way too big and culturally important for things like this to continue.” Really? Does anybody thing that Mark Zuckerberg is spending his time going around harassing users on the site? Has anybody, until now, attempted to block him? Apparently people care enough to try. Shouldn’t the founder of the site get at least one benefit for creating the site, aside from a personal paper worth of billions of dollars?
Do you think it matters that Mark Zuckerberg can’t be blocked on Facebook?
Update
A Facebook spokeperson gave us the following statement: “This error isn’t specific to any one account. It’s generated when a person has been blocked a certain large number of times. In very rare instances, a viral campaign will develop instructing lots of people to all wrongly block the same person. The purpose of this system is to protect the experience for people targeted by these campaigns. We’re constantly working to improve our systems and are taking a closer look at this one.”
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It's not a big deal. But I think the other writers are correct that it speaks to the immaturity of the product (not so much in a bad sense, but in a youthful sense). Maybe Zuckerberg planned to use his account for broadcast messages to all users.
Or the conspiracy theorists can suppose it's all part of his plans to take over the world…
Comment by Adam — August 23, 2010 @ 7:19 am
Jack McKenna is right. And think is spelt with "k", says this non native English speaker.
Comment by ts — August 23, 2010 @ 7:31 am
It doesn't really matter but they should probably change it anyway.
Comment by Caitlin Fitzsimmons — August 23, 2010 @ 9:40 am
Well, on one hand I can see that it's "his" site and he can do what he wants. On the OTHER hand, however, regarding your question is Mark going around harrassing others, are you saying because he's "Mark" he's not capable of harrassment? Do you think he's exempt from people actually IN his life not wanting him to interact with them? In answer to your question in support of Mark be non-blockable, YES, he MAY be harrassing others just like you might be, like I might be, like ANY human being might be. So does it matter to me? No. I don't know Mark. Does it matter to someone from his past who may want to be a part of the Facebook "world" yet wants to steer clear of direct contact with Mark? Quite possibly, YES.
Comment by Ally — August 23, 2010 @ 11:18 am
Actually, Zuckerberg is blockable — provided you did it a while back. I blocked his account (yes, the real one) a few months ago, and it took hold. I just checked — and he's still blocked.
Comment by Jack — August 24, 2010 @ 5:07 pm
OMG, I found that I can't ADD Mark as a friend… is he too good for all of us?!
Comment by Jason Morgan — August 25, 2010 @ 6:02 am
You wrote something that people could understand and made the subject intriguing for everyone. Im saving this for future use.
Comment by haine online — January 23, 2012 @ 11:20 am