Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks

2004 is when that was typed. I'm not sure that that social contract ever existed. We just didn't understand how "free" services worked.

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smrq 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This really seems like the exception that proves the rule, given how few Facebooks came out of that era. We had a social contract, but it turned out that being sociopathic is a winning strategy when everyone else is playing by the implicit rules. See also: modern politics.

	▲	dghlsakjg 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The dominant business model that decade was monetization via getting people to fork over their data. That's basically what Web 2.0 was.
	▲	mopsi 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Indeed. The 2004 chat snippet is notable because it displayed attitude that was uncommon at the time. Zuck made it mainstream.