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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