Facebook CEO Slammed 'Dumb' Users Who Trusted Him in College

An instant message transcript slipped to Business Insider shows 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg suggesting that users of the social network—fellow Harvard students at the time—were "dumb fucks" for trusting him.

Business Insider previously posted evidence that the Facebook CEO used login data from his social network to hack into fellow students' email accounts; that evidence also included instant message transcripts. Its current story follows below.

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.

http://gawker.com/5538216/facebook-ceo-slammed-dumb-users-who-trusted-him-in-college

anyone who trusts Zuckerberg today is a dumb fuck too.

I think that using Facebook (or MySpace, or LinkedIn, or anything similar) requires a complete lack of street smarts.

all FB has is my name. what's the big fucking deal?

Maybe it's someone you used to know with a grudge... maybe it's some crazy stalker looking for victims... maybe it's a burglar assessing potential targets. Since you do not control information that is online (whether you are given the illusion that you do or not), not only do you not have the power to decide who sees your info and who doesn't, you don't even know who has seen it and who hasn't.

Given all the negative consequences that have befallen FB users for these very reasons, you should have wised up by now!

i've provided my name and email addy. that's it. what harm will i experience because i posted that i like the aqua teen hunger force, or because i've posted pictures of my bicycles? nobody knows where i live because of FB.

Do you converse with them?

Friends and friends of friends can often reveal a lot more than you ever will.

it's that easy.

or they mess with privacy settings again without telling you, all that stuff you thought was private is now permanently archived in some content-scraping web database somewhere in South Korea.

We had a rally just last week that we used FB to promote and our attendance was fabulous! I have also hooked up with many political candidates on FB.

And I definitely don't lack street smarts.

things that you WANT to be public.

However, many users of these systems treat them as if they assume it will be only seen by their circle of friends, only to find out too late that it is not so.

Sometimes it's just embarrassment... e.g. http://failbook.com

Sometimes it's a lot more serious. Not long ago a woman got dropped from disability insurance (and was sued) because she put pictures of herself in a bikini on a beach on her FB and someone at the insurer saw it.

This is why I do not use social networking sites.

besides, their site is as buggy as the Everglades in August. :eyes:

I just joined FB one month ago. Yesterday I deleted my FB account and am now waiting the two weeks for my acct to be deleted. I found it advantageous because I found old classmates from 47 years ago. Other than that, I found it more of a waste of time.

Don't buy anything, don't allow any apps that need my password, only put personal info on there that anyone could already have (sex, city I live in, etc).

:rofl::evilgrin::rofl: