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> They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, an
by RL_Quine 6y ago
> They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages.
From the horses mouth.
- meowster 6y ago> learned a lot I've learned to not write my opinions down where someone can use them against me again, or say them where they can be recorded. - Zuck, probably
- dylan604 6y agoI think the word you looking for is "allegedly" instead of "probably".
- actuator 6y agoor he has really grown. Is it really surprising that people can be immature when they are young and grow to learn from their mistakes? It is easy to hate on Zuck so most people love to bring his past to malign his image. The grown up thing would be to trust his words but verify by his actions, not believe hearsay stories published for clicks. Even for people who commit serious crimes, we as a society are looking for ways to integrate them in our society through a correction system. We are talking about just words spoken as a teen/tween here.
- ydlr 6y agoIf he had learned from his mistake, he would have shut down facebook by now. Creating a website for the purpose of exploiting people you see as "dumb fucks" could be a youthful indescretion. Continuing to operating your dumb fuck exploiting service for nearly twenty years is the behavior of a sociopath.
- actuator 6y agoI don't use Facebook or Instagram but they are hardly just an exploitation service. They do help people in staying connected, specially with ones who are not in your very close circle. There is definitely a positive value that the paltform brings among the many negative ones as well.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThat... seems like the correct lesson to learn there?
- smilespray 6y agoI thought the proper moral lesson was to change your ways instead of making sure you don't get caught again. But who cares about morals?
- jfengel 6y agoPeople say lots of stuff that they would regret seeing on the front page of the New York Times. They mean something different when published as isolated quotes for a general audience than part of a conversation between people who know each other. So while it's true that this might be a "gaffe" in the sense of accidentally telling the truth, it could also be that it's not what it seems to be. When every word you say is scrutinized, you take a lot more risks that any of them will be seen as "gaffes", and the only way to prevent that is to avoid being quotable. The adversarial nature with the press and the public is a lesson that a famous figure does have to learn. Not the only one, but an important one.
- rightbyte 6y agoThere is a photo of Zuckerberg with taped over webcam and dumb plug into the 3.5mm jack on his laptop. I guess he knpws why to be paranoid.