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I would have joked, but not in the same way. Calling his own users 'dumb fucks' for trusting him is insulting and implies that he's unethical.

sdkmvx 16y ago
He may have been trying to say "Wow they trust _me_. Why would they trust me with anything?" But when you’re talking to close friends, not millions of people, you tend not to worry so much about phrasing.
scorpion032 16y ago
You really seem to ignore the context. Sometimes, (the ability to be able) to do wrong can be "cool". Why do you think young people smoke?
- runT1ME 16y ago
  Dude, calling your users dumb is fine. But saying you're going to 'fuck them in the ear'? When would that be cool? He wasn't 14 btw, when he said this...
  - KrisJordan 16y ago
    "f them in the ear" was not in the context of users, it was in the context of ConnectU and competing websites. It's more obvious in the New Yorker article.
    - loewenskind 16y ago
      So he was talking about the company he worked for and probably stole the idea from? I'm not sure that's better...
jrockway 16y ago
Dunno. I call people that use my software idiots for choosing to use my software. It's more of a self-deprecating thing than me actually thinking they are idiots. Phrases can have many meanings, and it's tough to draw a conclusion from a handful of sentences. I often have IM conversations where I pretend to be someone else and sarcastically say things that they would say, without any indication of that in the text. People I am friendly with online know that that's not me, and they read it as sarcasm. Post it on a blog, and people are guaranteed to have the wrong idea. Everybody loves to hate the big guys, but this IM conversation doesn't really rile me up.
berntb 16y ago
>>Calling his own users 'dumb fucks' for trusting him [...] insulting [...] unethical That was written 16 hours ago and voted to +22?? Oh, please... My remaining har is gray -- and I'd still add such a comment as an automatic joke about anyone trusting me. It is an obvious self deprecating joke to say/write at that point, laugh about -- and forget in less than five seconds. That said, I think Facebook as a non-open company is bad. An application with more information about people than Google should be distributed, for all our sakes. (No, I don't have any alternate ideas.) But damning that kid for having a sense of humor is ridiculous. And, worse, this might force me to stop joking... :-)

sdkmvx 16y ago

He may have been trying to say "Wow they trust _me_. Why would they trust me with anything?" But when you’re talking to close friends, not millions of people, you tend not to worry so much about phrasing.

scorpion032 16y ago

You really seem to ignore the context. Sometimes, (the ability to be able) to do wrong can be "cool". Why do you think young people smoke?

runT1ME 16y ago
Dude, calling your users dumb is fine. But saying you're going to 'fuck them in the ear'? When would that be cool? He wasn't 14 btw, when he said this...
- KrisJordan 16y ago
  "f them in the ear" was not in the context of users, it was in the context of ConnectU and competing websites. It's more obvious in the New Yorker article.
  - loewenskind 16y ago
    So he was talking about the company he worked for and probably stole the idea from? I'm not sure that's better...

jrockway 16y ago

Dunno. I call people that use my software idiots for choosing to use my software. It's more of a self-deprecating thing than me actually thinking they are idiots. Phrases can have many meanings, and it's tough to draw a conclusion from a handful of sentences. I often have IM conversations where I pretend to be someone else and sarcastically say things that they would say, without any indication of that in the text. People I am friendly with online know that that's not me, and they read it as sarcasm. Post it on a blog, and people are guaranteed to have the wrong idea. Everybody loves to hate the big guys, but this IM conversation doesn't really rile me up.

berntb 16y ago

>>Calling his own users 'dumb fucks' for trusting him [...] insulting [...] unethical That was written 16 hours ago and voted to +22?? Oh, please... My remaining har is gray -- and I'd still add such a comment as an automatic joke about anyone trusting me. It is an obvious self deprecating joke to say/write at that point, laugh about -- and forget in less than five seconds. That said, I think Facebook as a non-open company is bad. An application with more information about people than Google should be distributed, for all our sakes. (No, I don't have any alternate ideas.) But damning that kid for having a sense of humor is ridiculous. And, worse, this might force me to stop joking... :-)