PALO ALTO, California – Mark Zuckerberg was put off his evening meal this week after learning that his social networking website, Facebook, had been used to disseminate disturbing and controversial information during the recent civil unrest in China’s Xinjiang Province.
“Facebook was intended to be a way for empty-headed egotists to share mind-numbingly dull thoughts with anyone desperate enough to read them,” said a clearly unhappy Zuckerberg, claiming that his social utility service was not intended for political purposes.
“When I heard how a certain ethnic minority were using my baby for their own nasty means – like organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime – I cried. I just couldn’t believe they’d abused something meant for attention-starved geeks in need of a constant audience.”
Swearing to get back to basics, Zuckerberg claimed he is already at work on a new website that will be so mind-numbingly useless that no one, not even Uyghurs, will be able to figure out how to subvert it.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government’s decision to disrupt Facebook is making foreign residents in the Middle Kingdom feel cut off from the outside world. On numerous blogs and news sites, foreigners living in China vented their frustrations about not being able to communicate with business associates and loved ones overseas.
One formerly frequent user of Facebook wrote: “Gosh, I am in beijing, uploading some photos on face book for my families to see back at home, when suddenly connection got interrupted. I did not even got the chance of editing those photos…
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