The clarification from Barry Schnitt (Facebook’s Director of Corporate Communications and Public Policy) was even worse:
"I think WSJ is paraphrasing. What I said is profile picture and current city are optional. You don’t have to include a profile picture or you can include a picture of your dog or anything you like. Similarly, you don’t have to indicate your current city or you can indicate that your current city is “Atlantis”, “Valhalla” or, again, anything you like. We hope people will use accurate information if they are comfortable doing so because that information helps them to be found by their friends, which is part of the point of joining the site."
http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/15/facebook-lie-terms-of-servi... "Mr. Schnitt suggests that users are free to lie about their hometown or take down their profile picture to protect their privacy..."
The clarification from Barry Schnitt (Facebook’s Director of Corporate Communications and Public Policy) was even worse:
"I think WSJ is paraphrasing. What I said is profile picture and current city are optional. You don’t have to include a profile picture or you can include a picture of your dog or anything you like. Similarly, you don’t have to indicate your current city or you can indicate that your current city is “Atlantis”, “Valhalla” or, again, anything you like. We hope people will use accurate information if they are comfortable doing so because that information helps them to be found by their friends, which is part of the point of joining the site."