I thought this was just delightful:
“Embarrassing And Damaging” Zuckerberg IMs Confirmed By Zuckerberg, The New Yorker
So if you had any doubt about what Facebook feels about its customers, you can hear it straight from the horse’s mouth:
Oh sure, he “absolutely regrets” it now and he’s “grown and learned a lot” but we all know people don’t change that much. Dumb fucks indeed.
Well he was a college student messing around. Is pretty common for people to express
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Sorta. But even when I was a college student (I still am, but I’m older than I should be for an undergrad due to dropping out and returning) I wouldn’t have treated something like that so lightly. It’s a little disturbing that that was ever his attitude, to say the least.
Anyway I use Facebook somewhat and I’m not gonna stop. It just confirms the attitude I already have toward them - they’re not all that trustworthy, and one must tread with caution. I just thought it really encapsulated the issues surrounding them in a nutshell quite nicely. 
ETA: Weird, the link totally disappeared. I swear it was working when I posted it, now I can’t find the article on the site anymore…
I’ll have some of what acsenray’s having.
If Zuckerberg wasn’t such a dick, and if they hadn’t ruined Facebook, I’d almost feel sorry for Zuck. Things like this, and what with the highly unflattering movie The Social Network (directed by David Fincher no less) coming out and threatening to get tons of awards attention, he’s getting it from all sides.
But I don’t feel sorry for him. He fucked up Facebook just as I was starting to get interested in it.
Trustworthy…who the fuck puts stuff in public they feel should be private. Any clown who has ever said, “don’t tell anyone this but…” should know better.
It is still there, it just gives you an incorrectly formatted address when you click on it - clickable link.
Ah, thanks.
** moves thread Cafe Society --> MPSIMS **
** gets back to Lexulous game on Facebook **
So he thinks the average Facebook user is stupid when it comes to computer security and is generally an idiot on the internet? Funny, so do I.
Someone who went to Harvard acted arrogant and obnoxious? Why this is unprecedented.
Can’t say I care much what Zuckerberg thinks. Should I?
What’s sad is that this has been known for years and Facebook is only getting more popular. Dumb fucks, indeed 
Thank god I’m not famous enough to have people going through my old IM logs to find embarrassing exchanges. Those old conversations – read by a third party and taken at face value – would make me look like a complete monster, and I’m guessing my “I was being facetious!” wouldn’t get me very far.
Put another way, if I were in Zuckerberg’s shoes, I could absolutely see myself having the exchange quoted in the OP, even if I felt nothing but respect for the people in question and had no intention of actually sharing private information. In particular, I could see college-age me having this sort of conversation.
See, I’m perfectly happy using Facebook even though I know this. Here’s my secret: I don’t post anything there that I’d worry about getting back to anyone.
It’s the same secret I use for posts here. I’ve posted things about work or family and then deleted them before hitting reply, on the very-off-chance that it’d somehow make its way back to someone who’d be hurt or bothered by it.
This is the lesson of the Internet, and it should be applied everywhere online.
What seems odd to me is that I checked the profiles mentioned, and you cannot see their status updates on the page itself. So that means Facebook is hiding the fact that the status information is available.
So what’s that do? Every name I punch into it, it says no results.
I’m pretty sure lots of people learn new things about themselves and change. It wouldn’t surprise me if absolutely everyone goes through some kind of complete turnaround at some point in their lives (though it’s probably not quite that common).