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Young Zuck Has Name For People Who Trust Him

Oppsy Daisy! Amid a firestorm of criticism over Facebook's privacy policies -- and questions about its founder's moral integrity -- the Business Insider has published a blush-inducing IM exchange that founder Mark Zuckerberg had with a "college friend" in 2003. "Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard ... Just ask," Zuckerberg IMs this so-called friend shortly after he launched "The Facebook from his Harvard dorm room.

"I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS ... People just submitted it ... I don't know why ... They 'trust me' ... Dumb fucks." Granted, Zuckerberg was only 19 at the time, and was clearly casually boosting with someone he might have assumed was a close friend. "Could Mark have been completely joking?" asks Business Insider. "Sure ... But the exchange does reveal that Facebooks's aggressive attitude toward privacy may have begun early on."

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  1. Paul Benjou from The Center for Media Management Strategies, May 13, 2010 at 6:14 p.m.

    Underneath all the blather about his real attitude towards his "friends" there are serious misgivings to his comments then and now. Zuckerberg's employee (if he is still there) when asked what Zuckerber's position was on privacy noted ...he doesn't believe in it.
    Leopards don't lose their spots.
    Paul Benjou
    Indsutry Blog: www.MyOpenKimono.com

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