It was about 5 years before he became a billionaire.

If "he was young" is a defense, then "he is too young to trust as a CEO" suddenly becomes a very very valid criticism of Zuck.

> he is too young to trust as a CEO

Considering he has 57% of the voting power, isn't this criticism largely moot?

It is not moot when considering whether to use facebook's services or not (which is what OP was talking about).

he hasn't gotten much nicer with age, he just got a bit more careful on what he says in public.

He sure smiles a lot though!

I don't think age matters. We all do/say dumb things, period. I suspect very few people would be happy to be represented by a worst sentences they've ever typed or uttered. If you really want to make a case that Facebook shouldn't be trusted with privacy issues, base an argument on their previous privacy failures rather than something the CEO said years ago.

It's really hard to change a person's character as they get older. In general I think that by the age of 18-21 most of our ideas of right/wrong and how to behave and treat other people are pretty much established.

tl;dr It's hard to stop being an arrogant asshole. I feel bad for the guy.