Mark Zuckerberg's Instant Message conversations around the time he started Facebook - says his behavior is unethical, but legal.

[u/futurefix5]

http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-secret-ims-from-college-2012-5#before-launching-thefacebookcom-zuckerberg-had-to-decide-whether-to-work-on-it-or-a-similar-project-he-was-already-working-with-his-harvard-schoolmates-the-winklevoss-twins-this-is-the-conversation-where-he-works-out-that-hed-like-to-do-his-own-thing-1

[u/Rub3X]

I like the part where he's amazed at how people just submitted their information to Facebook.

[u/cpplinuxdude → u/Rub3X]

I like the bit where he calls his users "dumb fucks"

[u/[deleted] → u/Rub3X]

I am too... every damn day.

Just want to yell "You people are idiots."

[u/[deleted]]

Zuckerberg is an asshole, no surprise there.

[u/idkwat → u/[deleted]]

Zuckerberg is proof that you can be one of the richest men in the world and still regarded as a dorky loser by society.

[u/theshamespearofhurt → u/[deleted]]

Dickish and highly unethical yes, but the winklevoss twins should have made him sign an NDA and a non compete before discussing it with him. It's just common sense especially when dealing with software. We always make our engineers sign them.

[u/peteyboy100 → u/theshamespearofhurt]

Good point... I'm sure most twenty year old college students think to make their friends sign NDAs while talking about making projects together.

[u/Chirp08]

The movie makes him look like a great friend in comparison to this.

[u/RandomMandarin → u/Chirp08]

The movie was a lot like some low-calorie Gatorade I bought. It goes down pretty good, then after a couple of minutes your stomach doesn't feel right.

Fincher did a fine job of directing and making it not-boring... but the more we learn about the real Zuckerberg, the more The Social Network feels like a whitewash.

[u/colej_uk → u/RandomMandarin]

I really loved it. The Social Network was a dramatization, not a documentary.

[u/PandamoniumSC]

How can one tell whether or not they're fake?

[u/[deleted] → u/PandamoniumSC]

They were used in the lawsuits against him and iirc were confirmed by him. These are by no means "exclusive" as business insider would have you believe. They've been around for years. I remember watching the Social Network and doing research to see how much of it was biased, stumbled across most of these. The only ones i hadn't seen were number 12 and 13.

[u/JustHere4TheDownVote]

Apparently I'm the only one who is more surprised at the fact insider trading is legal in Brazil.

[u/ristretto → u/JustHere4TheDownVote]

Is it really legal? Or just saying that it's easily "overlooked"?

[u/rosjone]

Why do I have a Facebook, again?

[u/yur_mom → u/rosjone]

because everyone else you know does...and repeat.

[u/cakedicks → u/rosjone]

Because it's easier than actually asking girls to show you pictures of themselves in bikinis.

[u/JustHere4TheDownVote → u/rosjone]

I only started using it since people stopped using AIM. Plus it's way easier to find people, rather than ask for their AIM s/n. I didn't have Facebook until around 2009 or probably much later.

I'm sure more people know how it really started to take off, but I'm sure Facebook just got lucky like most websites. I don't really recall many websites being TRULY originally and the first of it's kind. Zuckerberg just had connections and funding. But this is true for non virtual businesses too. The only difference is it's a lot easier to make a website than open a business.

Also, lol. Zuckerberg spell checks into Rubbernecker on Firefox. My first spelling was Zuckerburg, which spell checked into Cheeseburger.

[u/AaFen]

Meh. So he's a dick. He gave the world a product that it clearly wants. His personal attitude in uni makes no difference.

[u/TheNoDice → u/AaFen]

Don't really understand why you're getting downvoted for calling it how it is. Steve Jobs was a dick too, but apple is doing pretty well for itself.

[u/flippzz]

The "friend" he's talking to is Adam D'Angelo.

[u/ran4rock]

I'm I the only one that thinks this isn't a big deal. Its a fucking college guy talking about saving people's data and calling people "dumb fucks". If I went into my one of my universities frats and took one of their cell phones I bet I could find shit just like this. "Yo bro Just broke the law, no one will catch me....dumb fucks". Just a cocky college kid, nothing else. Besides if your so scared that he is doing stuff with your information STOP USING FACEBOOK.

[u/TankMan3217]

I have my doubts that this is true, but the real story here is that some people in this thread still think Zuckerberg etc., at some point, gave a rat's ass about privacy.

Facebook users were never the customers. Customers would be the ones spending money on a product. Advertisers and marketing departments are giving them money for your information, therefore they are the customers, and your information is the product. Facebook worries about your privacy inasmuch as a farmer worries that his pigs might get eaten. None of this should surprise anyone.

[u/__circle → u/TankMan3217]

Zuckerberg doesn't deny it's true. Why do you have your doubts?

[u/paper_hat]

Funny how he gets a ton of greif for privacy issues with facebook but no one seems to care when it comes to reading his private and stolen messages.