Misdirected Facebook messages to be read at NYC bar

Remember last week when Facebook had that problem where an undetermined number of users received messages in their Facebook inboxes that belonged to complete strangers and they said it was no big deal?

We told you about the love, loss and sex chat many users had unwittingly delivered to the inboxes of random other users. Several journalists found themselves on the receiving end of the errant emails, and many people felt that the disclosure of information was inappropriate given the fact that people had no idea their private transmissions (albeit without ill intention on the side of the recipients) were being intercepted and read. If that original disclosurepalooza upset you, you probably won’t like this development.

CAN I LICK YOUR FACE: An evening with total strangers’ Facebook messages is the name of an event being held later this week at a New York bar. The truly voyeuristic (and local) folk who felt left out can go to a bar called Heathers (gossip irony!) in Alphabet City to “relive that magical evening” when the channels of email privacy were stripped away and everybody got all up in everybody else’s business.

What do you think? Going too far? Would you go because, hey, it’s not me it happened to? Obviously nothing can be done to stop it, but is the public performance of a bunch of emails received in error totally wrong and unethical, or do people on Facebook really have no reasonable expectation of privacy?

[Gawker]