You Can't Block Zuckerberg

Why not? It's a mystery
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 23, 2010 6:32 AM CDT
You Can't Block Zuckerberg
See the option at the bottom lefthand corner that says "Report/Block this Person"? Yeah, that doesn't actually work.   (Facebook)

If you’re creeped out by Mark Zuckerberg and his apparently insatiable desire to know exactly where you are and what you’re doing, you could always just block him on Facebook, right? Wrong. As BlockZuck.com points out, the Zuck appears to be the only Facebook user who can’t be blocked. Go ahead and try—you’ll receive a “General Block failed error” that simply says, “Block failed.”

The anonymous creator of BlockZuck.com tells Gawker that, until recently, you were able to block Zuckerberg, and BlockZuck.com was created to convince people to do just that. Now, the site exists solely to inform people that the Zuck is unblockable. “Facebook is getting way too big and culturally important for things like this to continue,” writes Jack McKenna on TechCrunch. “If you want to block Zuckerberg, you should be able to block Zuckerberg.”
(More Facebook stories.)

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