Looking to not repeat the privacy panic occurring when the company launched Beacon, Facebook has excused itself from participation in Google’s recently unveiled Friend Connect.

On the Facebook Developers blog, Charlie Cheever says Friend Connect, Google’s Open Social-based program allowing webmasters to integrate social networking features on their sites, doesn’t measure up privacy-wise:

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The woman whose bizarre MySpace hoax led to a 13-year-old girl’s suicide was indicted today on federal charges. If convicted on all counts, Lori Drew could face a maximum of 20 years in prison.

The country was stunned by the alleged actions of Drew some months back when news broke of the sadistic mind game she was playing with a neighborhood teenager and classmate of her daughter. Posing as a teenage boy, the 49-year-old Drew is said to have rejected the romantic interest of Megan Meier and told her the world would be better off without her. Meier later hanged herself.

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We’re not the first to notice and double-take. Penthouse Media Group Inc.’s ownership of a Christian dating website called BigChurch.com has been mentioned by a few publications, but usually as an ironic side note. Understandable. It’s kind of a heavy (yes, quite loaded) subject. However, PMGI CEO Marc Bell tells WebProNews it’s just business.

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