More about the Facebook/YouTube fiasco

My battle with Facebook carrying my YouTube activity isn't the first time I've encountered monumental incompetence by a major website. But it's still unclear which party is to blame: YouTube or Facebook?

I actually favorite a lot of videos on YouPube. I'm interested in old TV and radio clips and highway footage. I also use the favorites feature to hoard numerous Ernie and Bert sketches and chewing gum commercials for 2 features on this blog.

If these were the only items I appeared to have favorited, I wouldn't be urgently worried. But the problem went much deeper.

For one, I never favorited the "Turtle Power!" video. In fact, I had forgotten about that song since I was in college. Facebook also claimed I favorited several videos of a particular hostess of some late night TV show who I had never even heard of.

Who knows how many videos Facebook claimed I favorited that I didn't favorite? And who knows if there were any of them that were embarrassing? I pulled the notice from my Wall before I could even find out.

Like I said, I don't know whether YouTube or Facebook is at fault. But the embarrassment factor is a key reason YouTube allows you to make your favorites private.

It's been some years since I encountered fuck-ups from a major website that might have been considered legally actionable. But this outrageous blunder certainly is. I guarantee you that other people are having the same problems, and I'm almost positive someone is going to file a lawsuit against whoever is responsible. If it's class action, I'm signing up.