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The author is presuming that the IMs that an anonymous person on the internet claims they have access to are real. The article that this came from won't even state where they came from. Was it the person in the chat themselves? Was it someone who "discovered" Zuck's hard drive?

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

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I can't believe how many people subscribe to the "guilty is as guilty does" mantra. Because FB tried to profit to forcefully from user data these adolescent comments has to be Zuck's. Or he has to be a sociopath, or worse.

Assuming these IMs indeed are his, I find it amusing how people who complain about FB making their info public have no qualms about totally jumping on private comments made by another.

I don't complain about FB making my info public, as I have never chosen to share any with them. However, I've been told on this site more than once that over-30's "don't get" Facebook and should ask young people to explain it to them, and should refrain from even making comments about FB.

So I find it a little amusing that one of the reasons I may not get it is because I am not a "dumb fuck". Regardless of the comment's provenance, I smiled when I heard it.

Speaking of the "under 30" cool crowd behaving in "dumb fuck"-y ways, check out Formspring. Endless hours of morbid entertainment.

The author is presuming that the IMs that an anonymous person on the internet claims they have access to are real.

Why quibble about whether he said those words, when he has expressed them so damningly in his actions.

Even if they aren't legit, it says a lot about his public persona that people automatically assume they are.

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