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When a person you thought you could trust, in matters either personal or professional, has royally dicked you over for their own personal gain.
Turns out the status updates that were originally only accessible to my friends are now visible to anyone on the internet, just so Facebook could rip off what Twitter does. Talk about a double-Zuckerpunch!
"The act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users into sharing more info about themselves than they really want to. Usually associated with e-marketers and e-spammers." -Tom Jones
A Zuckerpunch is an "evil" interface is meant to trick users into doing things they don't want to. Greg Conti's examples include aggressive pop-up ads, malware that masquerades as anti-virus software, and pre-checked checkboxes for unwanted "special offers".
ref. Facebook's "Evil Interfaces." Tim Jones. April 29, 2010. Electronic Frontier Foundation - Deep Links (blog). Retrieved from: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfaces on May 1, 2010.
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Having one's privacy slowly stripped away while utilizing a social networking site; having private images become public inadvertently via a social networking page to embarrassment of an individual.
Dang, did you see that picture of Brian taking a belly shot off that stripper? He sure got zuckerpunched when he didn't realize it went out to the whole world, including his boss!
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When Facebook sues a person for copyright infringement or suing them for other reasons.
That one Egyptian girl named Facebook is so going to get zuckerpunched.
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When you get kicked off Facebook for something deemed Offensive.
Man, I got Zuckerpunched, for Posting a picture of Your Mom having "relations" with a Horse