Mark Zuckerberg Closes Off His Google+ Account

Facebook founder keeps people from seeing his friend list on rival service

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose stance on social networking privacy has been widely criticized, seems to suddenly have felt the need for a bit more online privacy himself.

When Zuckerberg first joined Google+, thousands of users took advantage of the site’s friend-request-free policy to follow the Facebook founder. As of July 5, Zuckerberg was the most popular Google+ member on the SocialStatistics.com top 100 users list. But today, after closing off his profile so that other users can no longer see his friends and followers (a privilege he's not been great about extending to Facebook users), it looks like he’s disappeared from the list—and he’s not the only one.

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