[isx726552]

It was a comment revealing his attitude towards what would soon become his customers in a globally-impactful business over which he has sole control. It’s more relevant than ever today.

[margalabargala]

"Let every 40-year-old be measured by the shittiest thing they said when they were 19"

[al_borland]

In most cases those comments weren’t about the service they still running at 40. His comment was also him self-reporting that he shouldn’t be trusted with user data, when his whole business revolves around user data. If it was some off color joke in poor taste, I wouldn’t care so much.

[dblohm7]

Even if he said something in his role as CEO of Facebook?

"Young people are just smarter" and so on...

[jjulius]

I don't disagree with your point, but nothing is absolute. In this case, he's essentially done a tremendously good job of showing us since then that, no, we can't trust him. He's more than lived up to his words.