Note that these information agencies that you refer to are in competition. That makes manipulating Zuckerburg a lot more difficult, doesn't it?
Also, his '26 year old mind' is not alone. He's not the only guy that wants to support his ideals.
I'm not saying that he can resist manipulation, but I don't think it's as easy as the parent of my comment makes it seem at all. If anything, it's a war for Zuck; it's not a war on Zuck.
For example, the US and say, North Korea are not going to be working together for control of Zuckerburg; they're going to be competing for it.
"Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS. People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
So when did Zuckerberg develop these "lofty goals" and "ideals"?
Is it so difficult to believe that that was a joke?
I can see myself making that sort of joke in person, but after seeing what's happened to Zuckerburg, I would treat the internet as a press conference.
Zuckerburg has been described as socially awkward more times than he's been described -- you can't be sure that he wasn't just going too far with a joke. That's very common for the stereotypical logical type -- doubly when he's talking to a friend that would be fine with the joke.
But suppose it were not a joke. This guy has changed the world forever in an incredibly short period of time. I'd be surprised if he didn't change his philosophy somewhat, if not drastically.
Few people have to adjust to being one of the most influential human beings in the world, especially in their mid-twenties.
To be clear, when I said "Regardless of Mark's ideals and lofty goals - politics is politics." -- I was in no way implying that he had lofty goals and ideals that were good... quite to the contrary.
I do not and shall not ever have an account on the book for many reasons - my distrust of the founder and company ethos are but just two...
I think that there is a clear argument that intelligence agencies have a substantial home field advantage when dealing with business.
Consider the homegrown competition in China. Xiaonei/Renren is pretty much a facebook clone with 70M+ users, and Sina Weibo is a microblogging service ala Twitter.
Also, his '26 year old mind' is not alone. He's not the only guy that wants to support his ideals.
I'm not saying that he can resist manipulation, but I don't think it's as easy as the parent of my comment makes it seem at all. If anything, it's a war for Zuck; it's not a war on Zuck.
For example, the US and say, North Korea are not going to be working together for control of Zuckerburg; they're going to be competing for it.