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Facebook's Fatal Error
At 12:01 a.m. Saturday, 200 million Facebook users began a mad scramble to claim a user name. This was also the moment, says Douglas Rushkoff, when Facebook could become obsolete.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Jun. 10 2009
7:32PM EDT
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