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As he celebrated his 26th birthday Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s friends list was shrinking noticeably.

Business partners, popular tech bloggers and everyday users of the popular social networking site are forming a growing revolt against Zuckerberg and the changes he has made to the site — tweaks to its business plan aimed at improving the site’s profitability ahead of an expected initial public offering.

And while the changes — to the privacy levels that distribute more personal info to a wider group of marketers and to agreements with business partners that can flatten the partners’ profits — have pumped up Facebook’s value to a staggering $20 billion, some serious problems are appearing

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