You better watch out what you say to your friends on chat, especially if you happen to be a part of Facebook and more importantly if you are its CEO. Mark Zuckerberg appears to have got high and invited more critics to scrutinize Facebook over its privacy. The sin committed? The young CEO got carried away and called people who trust him to be dumb F**ks. So much for responsibility.
The chat isn’t something recent but comes from the time when Zuckerberg launched Facebook back in Harvard dorms when he was 19. The conversation:
Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask.
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Friend's Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.
Extreme and I am already doubting how secure is Facebook, given how sinister this sounds. Definitely back at that time, Zuckerberg was flying high and has matured in the last 6 years but to tell you the truth it just gives one jitters. With the evolution of Facebook’s privacy over time, it is obvious that the social network is too blindly trusted by everyone and that the changes in user privacy make one believe that we are just stupid folks trusting the social network. Mark Zuckerberg himself has been very vocal about this and staunchly believes that there is no such thing as privacy online.
To me that is a very strong statement and an indication that the CEO is simply putting a protection wall around himself and Facebook by making users responsible for anything related to privacy. To some sum it all up the following statement should very well mirror what Facebook thinks of privacy:
Quit your life on the Web and you have your privacy
I know English is a difficult language, but if you’re going to blog you should quadruple check things. For example: “To some it all up …” What you *wanted* to say was “to SUM it all up” in order to indicate a conclusionary statement, bit of a difference between ‘some’ and ‘sum’. If you can’t spell it properly, don’t use a phrase like that to try to sound more intelligent, it ends up having the opposite effect.
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Sardar Mohkim Khan Reply:
May 15th, 2010 at 4:46 am
Thanks Na Me for being the Grammar police and teaching such a ‘valuable’ lesson.
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It all started in the year 2003 when I was logged in to the Harvard website, where I was listening in to the conversations of the Harvard students. One of these students was Mark Zuckerberg who was talking about Face Smash and he had just broken up with his girlfriend at the time, so I struck up a conversation with this Mark Zuckerberg. He was talking about creating a dating site. I thought this was a bit odd – a pie in the sky idea since he had just broken up with his girlfriend and he was slagging her off – calling her a bitch and a whore.
I talked to Mark about the idea, and suggested he call it Face Mash. He was intrigued with my suggestion and thought it was a good idea. Mark wanted to call it Face Smash, because he wanted to smash his ex in the face. I convinced him that Face Mash was a good idea and he agreed, but one week later he changed his mind and wanted to call it Face Smash. When I queried him about this he replied ‘f…. off you c…- I’m calling it Face Smash’. Two weeks after this conversation he came up with the name Mashable and when I asked him why he chose the word Mashable instead of Face Mash he said ‘f,…off you bastard, Face mash is not your idea’. So I re-posted the conversations we had two weeks earlier and he had to apologise and said he was going with Mashable. I took this as a sign that he wanted to throw me off the scent and take the site for himself.
I found the character of Mark Zuckerberg to be deceptive and dishonest and ended conversing with Mark Zuckerberg because of his dishonesty and lack of integrity
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Mark has been known to be an arrogant prick from what i’ve been reading about him. Amazing how he tried to screw his best friend who helped him get off the ground.
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Well, Sardar, if you are going to be a writer, and publish things, than what Na Me taught you IS valuable. Without your condescending scare quotes. Take your job seriously and people will take what you write seriously.
Secondly, Mark Zuckerberg does not “think” we are dumb fucks. He “thought” we were dumb fucks. 6 years ago. In a conversation for which you give no source or context.
Learn how to properly write and research something, and don’t put down readers of you who properly point out that you didn’t take two seconds to edit this.
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