Dear Facebook,
You’re the best! I connect with the most people using your site and spend far too much time on there. Its great having
tools that you offer like pages so I can connect my business with my fans. I like to use contractions. It makes me feel human and personal. When I post updates to my fans it would be really cool if you could escape my apostrophes correctly instead of putting slashes in front of them. I’m really glad that you work hard to keep your applications secure and safe but I’m used to a better level of professional code from you guys. I sure hope you can get it fixed soon.
On another note I do love you and spend far too much time surfing your wonderful pages, keep up the great work and Happy New Year.
Wishing you a prosperous 2009
Doug from Nullvariable
PS to the less technical reader magicquotes is a programming function in PHP for keeping things correctly formated. With the prevelance of hacking attacks its good to see that Facebook is filtering potential problems like this.
PPS not a fan of us on Facebook? We can’t send you cool updates and discounts and such if you’re not! Nullvariable on Facebook.
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I do agree, FB needs to handle quotes and symbols better – have you seen what they do to the lowly ampersand? On that note – you may want to submit this to http://www.apostropheabuse.com as it fits their mission. But before you do, perhaps you should review your apostrophe handling too for the benefit of all your fans.
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