While Facebook privacy concerns have never been a massive issue for its creator Mark Zuckerberg but a new profile in the New Yorker still reveals more about the man himself than he’s usually let on. So what secrets are lurking behind Mark Zuckerberg’s public Facebook profile. Read on for some interesting trivia including just why the site is blue and a fairly shocking admission from the Facebook founder…
Another intriguing Facebook fact that pops up in the profile is that Facebook conference rooms are named after bad ideas. They include Knife At A Gunfight and Beacon (after the notoriously badly received Facebook feature).
As bad ideas go, the decision by Mark Zuckerberg to reveal that he sent a series of damaging IMs while he was still at college might be set to join the list. In the New Yorker article he admits to a conversation offering up private details of Harvard students to a friend which concludes with him saying: “People just submitted it. They ‘trust me’. Dumb f*cks.”
To be fair Mark Zuckerberg tells the New Yorker that he regrets the messages and says: “If you’re going to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people rely on, then you need to be mature, right? I think I’ve grown and learned a lot.” Whether people worried about the power of Facebook will accept that is another matter.
The profile also reveals the Mark Zuckerberg uses an iPhone 4 and one of his earliest programming projects was an instant messaging service his family used to communicate among themselves which they dubbed Zucknet.
Possibly the most revealing bit of information revealed about the Facebook founder in the profile is his favourite book. It’s Ender’s Game – a tale about a boy who saves the world but doesn’t connect well with others and is hated for being successful. Does that sound at all familiar?
Out now | £free | Facebook (via The New Yorker)
