This is the sort of reflexive hit-meme that people trot out at every opportunity, but it adds no information and leads to no insightful discussion. It's merely a way of being uncharitable, and like most predictable things, is utterly tedious, which means it shouldn't be here.
Those of you who disagree are invited to imagine the world repeating the most misconstruable thing you said when you were 19.
But "Young people are just smarter" -Mark Zuckerberg [1]
[1]http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/26/start-up-advice-for-entrep...
They "trust me"
How can anyone claim that it would be common and understandable for anyone of his age at the time, attending Harvard, to accept all this personal information and then say such a thing?
"...so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard".
That sounds just a tad anti-social for the founder of a "social network".
And then, of the students who would say something like this upon receiving people's personal life information, how many would you trust later as adults _with all your personal information_? Too late. Already done.
Apparently wealth changes everything. Zuckerberg is now transformed. Trustworthy and benevolent. Or it does not matter; it is irrelevant. Or it matters, but what can we do; what choice do we have?
Maybe believing one of the above makes all those who submit their personal information through his website a little more comfortable.
Cognitive dissonance.