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This sentiment confuses me. Why do people dislike Zuckerberg by default? How does it happen that anyone sees him as a bully?

908087 9y ago
What does "dislike by default" mean? Are you implying that people don't actually have reasons to dislike him based on the actions of himself and his company through the years? It's not like people just decided "I don't know who Mark Zuckerberg is yet, but I despise him".
- hanspeter 9y ago
  It seems that anything praiseworthy Zuckerberg does never generates praise. On the other hand any opportunity to criticize him is always exercised.
r00fus 9y ago
Exemplar: http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
- tomhoward 9y ago
  That's not bullying. That's an ego-driven 19-year-old geek, lamely boasting to friends. A rather large proportion of people were once ego-driven 19-year-olds lamely boasting to friends. I sure was. Certainly, every 19-year-old has an under-developed prefrontal cortex and thus makes decisions driven much more by emotion than rationality [1]. But only due to achieving vast success, do people like Zuckerburg have people continually using comments from their adolescence to smear their reputation when they're well into their 30s. It occurs to me that it's the same kind-of ego-driven smugness that motivated 19-year-old Zuck to make that comment, that motivates his detractors to keep raising it 14 years later in order to make themselves feel morally superior to him. Zuck may have grown up, become a father, embraced spirituality and turned much of his attention to philanthropy, yet his critics continue to be fixated on this one lame comment by a 19-year-old as the "gotcha" that reveals everything about his character. As dang said a few days ago [2], there are many valid bases on which to critique Facebook and Zuckerberg, but this is not one of them. [1] https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/ https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616988

908087 9y ago

What does "dislike by default" mean? Are you implying that people don't actually have reasons to dislike him based on the actions of himself and his company through the years? It's not like people just decided "I don't know who Mark Zuckerberg is yet, but I despise him".

hanspeter 9y ago
It seems that anything praiseworthy Zuckerberg does never generates praise. On the other hand any opportunity to criticize him is always exercised.

r00fus 9y ago

Exemplar: http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

tomhoward 9y ago
That's not bullying. That's an ego-driven 19-year-old geek, lamely boasting to friends. A rather large proportion of people were once ego-driven 19-year-olds lamely boasting to friends. I sure was. Certainly, every 19-year-old has an under-developed prefrontal cortex and thus makes decisions driven much more by emotion than rationality [1]. But only due to achieving vast success, do people like Zuckerburg have people continually using comments from their adolescence to smear their reputation when they're well into their 30s. It occurs to me that it's the same kind-of ego-driven smugness that motivated 19-year-old Zuck to make that comment, that motivates his detractors to keep raising it 14 years later in order to make themselves feel morally superior to him. Zuck may have grown up, become a father, embraced spirituality and turned much of his attention to philanthropy, yet his critics continue to be fixated on this one lame comment by a 19-year-old as the "gotcha" that reveals everything about his character. As dang said a few days ago [2], there are many valid bases on which to critique Facebook and Zuckerberg, but this is not one of them. [1] https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/ https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616988