Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy. An early instant messenger exchange Mark had with a college friend won’t help put these concerns to rest. According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Brutal.
Could Mark have been completely joking? Sure. But the exchange does reveal that Facebook’s aggressive attitude toward privacy may have begun early on.
Since Facebook launched, the company has faced one privacy flap after another, usually following changes to the privacy policy or new product releases. To its credit, the company has often modified its products based on such feedback. As the pioneer in a huge new market, Facebook will take heat for everything it does. It has also now grown into a $22 billion company run by adults who know that their future depends on Facebook users trusting the site’s privacy policy.
Facebook declined to comment about Mark’s attitude toward privacy.
Took you guys long enough…
I love America! So many fools to get rich of! If only I had the instinct! IF ONLY!!!
Don’t trust anyone named Sugartown.
#6
If you keep checking into it you’ll pretty much find that every billionaire is a douche bag. It’s part of the mentality needed to accumulate that kind of wealth. Basically you need to have the moral equivalent attitude of thinking of humans as cattle to be herded and slaughtered for your benefit. The other half is the salesman skills which of course covers up their real beliefs.
That’s why I use an alias on Facebook. Then there’s my dogs Facebook page…
Great way for the government to collect info on its citizens – create some ridiculous website where they VOLUNTARILY post all their private info and connections. Zuckerberg is right about the dumb f*cks, but what does that make him…a smart f*ck?
IF such is the attitude of facebook towards our privacy and the invasion it wants to do in privacy of everyone in the world who uses facebook, then this attack on facebook of criticism is right and it should be boycotted right away