Facebook CEO Called Trusting Users ''Dumb F***s''
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, offered a friend access to users' email addresses, photos and screen names.
Over the last few weeks, Facebook has faced a lot of criticism because of its privacy settings. However, though this may have intensified in the last month, Facebook is pretty used to bad press about privacy because there's always someone complaining about it. As usual, changes to the social network's privacy settings are the reason for the most recent upset and yesterday, Facebook held an all-hands meeting to discuss the company's privacy policy. That's encouraging news for users worried about their privacy, however, these latest IMs from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are definitely not going to help calm the nerves of concerned users.
BusinessInsider today posted an instant messaging exchange between a younger Mark Zuckerberg and an anonymous friend:
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.
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook when he was just 19 years old and in the months that followed, the college student and his staff are said to have been a raucous bunch. They did all kinds of things that most people wouldn't dream of doing at work. Arriving to work in their pajamas, throwing mental office parties at the house they rented in Palo Alto, and having Christmas parties at theme parks where attendees got wasted enough to throw up in the air vents on the bus were just some of the things they got up to.
That kind of carry-on can be forgiven. Facebook was started by a bunch of college students, so hearing they acted like a bunch of frat guys isn't exactly surprising nor is it likely to worry anyone. However, what is worrying is that Mark Zuckerberg was so casual about giving out users' details. Sure, Facebook was a fraction of the size it is now, but the user base was still made up of people he didn't know who trusted him with their information.
Mr. Zuckerberg likely didn't realize the responsibility that he had been shouldered with when launching the site out of his dorm room. However, whether you realize the kind of information you've just agreed to protect or not, that Mark Zuckerberg is the kind of person who would offer email addresses and photos to a friend sets off alarm bells straight away.
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Might be time to finally remove my account. What a tool.
Cant wait until people start suing him.
Well people giving out their private details to strangers are ''Dumb F***s''
Didn't their parents teach them not to talk to strangers?
People who give out their identity online ARE "dumb f**ks"
I've never used facebook but I feel sorry for the people that relied on facebook and it's services and have made it a part of their habitual daily/weekly/monthly routines only to be let down and betrayed by such a douche.
HAHAHAH epic, i always knew to stay away from social networking sites... Just confirms that i was right.
I've been holding off the deletion of my facebook for a while now. Time to stop procrastinating.
Cant wait until people start suing him.
Suing him for what? This is a free site. This is what I don't understand about people when they bitch and moan about Facebook privacy. You don't pay anything for it and it's not something you have to have.
I have a Facebook account but I sure as hell don't post anything inappropriate. Just don't put private information on the site and you'll be fine.
Atleast we see it
lets face it, disclaimer or not, anyone that posts anything personal online (omitting maybe government/medical) info, should pretty much consider it public domain, including passwords. All the promises in the world won't protect the public, they have to protect themselves, don't be a 'Dumb Fu*k' 
ps. Ouch.
Some of you people are idiots? "People giving out their private details to strangers are Dumb F***s?" Do you not bank online? Buy goods online? Order pizza online? All of that is giving out personal info to "some stranger."
I'm not defending facebook in any manner, but come on, don't be a moron.
My wife just "Permanently" deleted her Facebook account last night. Apparently it's not very easy to do (there's a wiki How-To on how to do it).
The problem with Facebook is that all the privacy settings by "Default" are set to "Public".
My wife just "Permanently" deleted her Facebook account last night. Apparently it's not very easy to do (there's a wiki How-To on how to do it).
The problem with Facebook is that all the privacy settings by "Default" are set to "Public".
I only post stuff that can be seen by anyone, like public stuff, not private stuff.
Also, I don't use Failchat, that's what IM apps, like YM, Skype, Steam, are for, for fuck's sake.
Suing him for what? This is a free site. This is what I don't understand about people when they bitch and moan about Facebook privacy. You don't pay anything for it and it's not something you have to have.I have a Facebook account but I sure as hell don't post anything inappropriate. Just don't put private information on the site and you'll be fine.
He'll get sued once that info is used for illegal activities. EULA's are not impervious to lawsuits, especially if the offending company is so frivilous with data.
No surprise there but I'm still curious to know why people would do something like submit their personal information to some guy they don't even know. Sure he started Facebook, that doesn't mean he's your buddy.
PS: Google should totally buy them and get rid of the CEO.
While this could be taken as Zuckerberg giving out email addresses to friends, he could also be telling his friends to ask the Harvard people for their information. This could've even been a social experiment that he conducted to see how internet-retarded people really are.
I think the advent of companies using sites like this to do background and personality checks nevermind criminals stalking your page to find out when you're on vacation would be reason enough to delete any public information about one's self online. It's like a giant fingerprint that everyone can see. I don't have a facebook or a myspace for that reason. I'd rather not be in the system that easily.
He'll get sued once that info is used for illegal activities. EULA's are not impervious to lawsuits, especially if the offending company is so frivilous with data.
I suppose that is possible (I'm no legal expert) but why would anyone post anything of importance on the site? I guess I don't really see how Facebook is responsible for people putting personal data in a public arena.
The INTERNET isn't a safe place to put your identity dumb f*cks!
Thats why don't have a Facebook account. People are just asking for truoble putting too info online.
Zuckerberg's early involvement with Harvard ConnectU and reported sabotage would indicate a fundamental problem with ethics.
Mark Zuckerberg is right. People who trust the internet with private info are dumb f*cks.
However, from the interviews of him on 60 minutes, he is still by far the most colossal bag of nerdscrote I've ever seen.
He started a site for others to share their information with their friends. He implied he could be trusted. Originally he stated that your information would be safe.
He has violated all of these standards under which he started.
He has demonstrated callous disregard for the privacy of the site users calling them Dumb F*cks for trusting him even though he asked them to and originally promised that he could be trusted.
Facebook should be taken down and it's owners arrested for fraud and perpetrating a scam at the very least. Especially with the egregious comment revealed in that IM exchange and the current push to make everyone's information completely open on the site, whether the people want it that way or not.
There will always be crooks and scam artists, it seems. The more blatant ones should certainly be prosecuted. Mark Zuckerberg should be right up there at the top of that list.
Those of you who appear to agree with him are aiding and abetting a culture of the same sort.
The news could say that this dialog happened a long time ago, but I think it is more like a few days ago.
I hate to say I told you so but.....Ahhh who the heck am I kidding ive been waiting for this and am happy to say I TOLD YOU SO.
That was then. Having grown this big, I hope Facebook/Zuck have developed the ethical and social responsibilities needed running a social networking site. Heck, if you're making millions out of your members, you should at least have the moral responsibility to protect them.
On the other hand, if you publish sensitive information/pictures on your profile, you are indeed a dumb f**k.
Yes, I never liked Facebook. As most of my friends decided to post their whole lives on it....
You have to be brain dead to post some stuff I see online... But I guess most Facebook users are....
Jane: Where you drunk when you wrote this article? Take a second pass and correct the typo's and atrocious sentence structure.
How do you apologize to 400 million people for insulting them and pointing out their lack of intelligence? You can't.
You don't ask sheep for forgiveness. Sheep move to where the grass is greener. It is the way of the web.
just a word for the people who are deleting their account. Does it really matter if you do so your info that was submitted and uploaded is already in their database, deleting it won't make a dam different!!! Just re-frame from putting up private stuff simple as that.