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We are all young and foolish in our lives. That's why we go through life - to learn, grow as an individual, and be the best version of ourselves we can be. I d

We are all young and foolish in our lives. That's why we go through life - to learn, grow as an individual, and be the best version of ourselves we can be. I don't think it's fair to judge anybody by their college/young adult years. Those years are some of the most influential and character changing any young adult goes through. Go back and read something you wrote 5 years ago. I promise you will find something where you sit and think, "What could I have possibly been thinking about at the time...I wouldn't say that now." A lot of my facebook 'memories' appear at the top of my feed and sometimes I'm shocked I said something 5 years ago, no way I'm going to re-share that.

spinchange 11y ago
Without disagreeing with anything you've written (I agree!), what if a bad/foolish attitude you had when you were young led to you becoming an extraordinarily successful billionaire? What life lessons would one learn from that? I've always tried to imagine how Mark himself really feels about it, because even if he's embarrassed, it's not untrue. Today, over 1/7th of the world does just "trust him" and its made him a billionaire. He was no dummy back then. EDIT: Kudos to him (and Gates before him) for trying to give back now.
- Cshelton 11y ago
  Although sometimes being reckless can lead to a reward, I think it can also cause you to lose the reward just as fast. At some point in the growth of Facebook, Mark realized that what he had said back then was wrong and he is accountable for all the information people were giving Facebook. If he had continued with his attitude of people being "dumb" for giving him all the data after that point, I don't think Facebook would have succeeded as it has up until today. So I guess you don't always have to 'fail' to learn a life lesson, but as you gain different perspectives on things you also learn from that. I think a perfect example is politics. When you know only a little information about a topic, it's easy to say, 'just do this', or 'why are the idiots in office not doing it this way.' However, once you get more involved, and you see the repercussions of every decision you make, etc., you have a very different view.

spinchange 11y ago

Without disagreeing with anything you've written (I agree!), what if a bad/foolish attitude you had when you were young led to you becoming an extraordinarily successful billionaire? What life lessons would one learn from that? I've always tried to imagine how Mark himself really feels about it, because even if he's embarrassed, it's not untrue. Today, over 1/7th of the world does just "trust him" and its made him a billionaire. He was no dummy back then. EDIT: Kudos to him (and Gates before him) for trying to give back now.

Cshelton 11y ago
Although sometimes being reckless can lead to a reward, I think it can also cause you to lose the reward just as fast. At some point in the growth of Facebook, Mark realized that what he had said back then was wrong and he is accountable for all the information people were giving Facebook. If he had continued with his attitude of people being "dumb" for giving him all the data after that point, I don't think Facebook would have succeeded as it has up until today. So I guess you don't always have to 'fail' to learn a life lesson, but as you gain different perspectives on things you also learn from that. I think a perfect example is politics. When you know only a little information about a topic, it's easy to say, 'just do this', or 'why are the idiots in office not doing it this way.' However, once you get more involved, and you see the repercussions of every decision you make, etc., you have a very different view.