Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-not-what-i-heard dept.

schmidt349 submitted a story about Zuckerberg that might fly in the face of what you've heard of the guy in the past. "Award-winning New York Times journalist David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect presents readers with a complex view of Facebook's founder and CEO. Primed by hours of conversation and research deep into the history of the social network, Kirkpatrick reaches the conclusion that money isn't a primary motivation for Zuckerberg, 'a coder more than a CEO, a philosopher more than a businessman, a 26-year-old who has consistently avoided selling out because he sees Facebook as his way to change the world.' Kirkpatrick deftly handles the controversy surrounding Facebook's sometimes cavalier attitude toward user privacy, and the result is a much more balanced and less sensationalist account of Facebook's past, present, and future."

8 of 268 comments (clear)

  1. The 'authorized' biography by Trufagus · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think we can expect to see much, much more of this, as Facebook tries to change their CEO's image.

    Apparently there is an unflattering movie coming out in the Fall and I assume they want to get ahead of that.

  2. Immaterial by ismism · · Score: 2, Informative

    Doesn't matter to me, any more. I've opted out of FB, altogether. "I've opted out of FB" (all together)

  3. The Economist's review of the same book by JimBobJoe · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Economist's review doesn't necessarily answer your question, but I would say it's more informative overall.

  4. has super-user access to full profiles by peter303 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of all the hot girls in FB. Who could complain?

  5. Re:What a conveniently timed puff piece by spun · · Score: 2, Informative

    He actually was a philosopher. Read his Discorsi on how to structure a democratic society. The man wasn't evil, he was a realist.

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  6. Re:Well Obviously. by david_thornley · · Score: 2, Informative

    To rephrase your last phrase, social networking is all about the network effect. Facebook is useful to me because I've got friends and family on it, not because of (shudder) Mafia Wars. A social network without anybody I wanted to, um, socialize with would be useless to me.

    --
    "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
  7. huh? It exists, called OpenId by BitterAndDrunk · · Score: 2, Informative

    OpenId is what you're looking for I believe. . . I think that's FB's implementation as well. (probably way wrong there though)

    --
    You better watch out, there may be dogs about . . .
  8. Re:Again.... by veg_all · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mother Theresa who took 1.4m stolen dollars from Charles Keating? Mother Theresa gave a hell of a fuck about money, mainly by fetishizing the suffering of those without it....

    Read up.

    Otherwise I agree.

    --
    grammar-lesson free since 1999. (rescinded - 2005)