The part I love is that they made the feature work and actually faxed the photo ...

netsp · on Sept 11, 2009

That is slightly suspicious. Maybe somebody at facebook actually thought that this was a good idea at some point and had developed it as a feature.

snprbob86 · on Sept 11, 2009

More likely is that the fax was manual after clicking the link did this:

  send_email(to='[email protected]', subject='FAX Prank', body='Photo ID: %s\nUser ID: %s' % (photo.id, user.id))

But, you know... in PHP, not Python :-)

drusenko · on Sept 11, 2009

with efax you can send a fax with an email, so really sending an email to a person and having a fax sent is the same amount of work.