Friday, May 14, 2010

Facebook founder feels the heat as privacy backlash rages: "they trust me, dumb f..cks"



A leaked instant messenger (IM) transcript from 2003 in which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mocks users who joined his then fledgling social networking site is adding to the sense of outrage over the social networking site's cavalier attitude towards privacy.

The transcript, published by the sober Business Insider website, dates from the days when Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old operating what was then called The Facebook from his Harvard dorm room.

The IM conversation went like this, Business Insider says: More...

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