20 Dec
Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Esoterotica, Exeter, Internets, odd & fun
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is coming to my school to give an assembly on January 26th. This is because he was an alum, ‘02. Phillips Exeter Academy is running some year-long assembly series for the 75th anniversary of the Harkness method at Exeter–the discussion-based teaching around a table that was made possible through the money of Rockefeller chum Edward S. Harkness. You can be sure I’ll be asking hard questions.
If this is part of the Harkness 75th series, which I expect it is, there will also be an hour long talk afterwards. The assembly will offer me maybe one opportunity to ask a tough question whose straight answer would embarrass Zuckerberg in front of the school. More realistically any question-answering would be done with the night-time talk. I’m specifically looking for questions about privacy, something that many of my peers sometimes worry about. All the same there are lots of avenues here for lots of fun.
If you have any questions you think I should try to ask, please share them! Post them in the comments.
(Sidenote: Unlike everyone else in the world, I’d like to acknowledge that though it’s his baby, Zuckerberg had a lot of help in time and money and wasn’t some genius Zarathustra. All the same he’s got the reins right now and is the frontman whenever it comes to making absurd gestures like wearing flipflops to business functions and hugely overvaluing his company while snubbing potential partners and throwing paper billions down the drain.)
5 Responses
Robert Tunney
December 30th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
1Ok, this may be just a tad obnoxious, but it’s completely true:
“Mark Zuckerberg, why ARE you such a ridiculous douche?
Oh… and thanks for facebook.”
~Robert
Sam Jackson
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
2I think a little more tact is called for, Robert, but I appreciate the spirit of your suggestion
Montoya
January 6th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
3How about, hmmm…
“Mark, all the negative feedback after the Facebook feeds bomb could have been prevented if Facebook had done more work in the planning stage to test the feature with users. Have you changed your planning strategy since then? Just how much does user testing play a part in development at Facebook?
Question submitted by Christian Montoya, christianmontoya.net, who happens to be graduating in May and would love to speak personally with you about potential employment opportunities.”
OK, you can leave out the second half
Simon Templar
January 7th, 2007 at 12:48 am
4Wow! How exciting to have the man himself back again.
Here’s a question I hope someone asks…how long will it be until all of my personal info is openly sold to the highest bidder?
Oh wait…been there, done that…Microsoft is taking care of that for them…
I guess I’ll have to second what Robert said…ask him why he is such a douchebag. I have tons of friends that can’t wait to know the answer.
Out of all of the Web 2.0 crowd, I think we can all agree that Mark is the doucest. Why couldn’t Chad from YouTube have gone to your school?
Sam Jackson
January 7th, 2007 at 12:52 am
5If I am going to ask him that, I will have to try to time it until the very end, because otherwise he probably won’t answer any of my other questions afterwards. Tricky.
I didn’t realize there was quite such a level of Zuckerberg hate here… maybe he was held up in Palo Alto by an end user instead of a random criminal.
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