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"Before 'The Social Network' hits theaters, read the Rolling Stone story that exposed the battle for Facebook."

File photo, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, 01/03/10. (photo: file)
File photo, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, 01/03/10. (photo: file)

 

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+2 # Activista 2010-09-29 10:14
Excellent article - dark side of Facebook - comment on our money/consumeri sm culture - greed. The tragedy is debt - stress - divorces - suicides - destruction of nature. There are many spams and viruses distributed through FaceBook.
Positive side is free non-structured information flow - better than censorship.
 
 
-6 # Harriet 2010-09-29 10:30
This article is overwhelmingly too long, and overwhelmingly boring.

Unreadable!
 
 
+2 # vicarvic 2010-09-29 11:06
Quoting Harriet:
This article is overwhelmingly too long, and overwhelmingly boring.

Unreadable!

Harriet, So is life.
 
 
-1 # Eben 2010-09-29 12:48
Quoting Harriet:
This article is overwhelmingly too long, and overwhelmingly boring.

Unreadable!


Well, not unreadable, but maybe not worth reading. I mean, you aren't going to take any quotes from the court papers seriously, are you? And my lawyer's training doesn't see any hard facts on either side. I mean, if you paid me, I could be happy representing any of the litigants. What it is, after you filter out the lawyers and the author's bias, is just the story of a bunch of spoiled intelligent rich kids who all got an idea at the same time and then squabbled over who was going to get the credit (and the $) for it. Claire was catty in the way s/he psychoanalyzed Mark; the real proof will be what happens next, what Mark does with his money and power. If he's what he says he is, at least he will be more like a Buffett than a Koch.....
 
 
0 # Ann2 2010-10-02 07:21
Don't feel alone:

"Apparently 65% of us have lied about reading the great works of literature."
The Guardian, 9 March 2009
Charlie Brooker

Even if we can read, most of us are actively illiterate ... much to our own detriment, allowing us to be easily fooled by ... whoever entertains us the best.
 
 
+3 # almoore 2010-09-29 12:12
This guy's never going to have a real friend that he can trust. I feel kind of sorry for him.
 
 
-1 # joseph 2010-09-29 18:46
Who needs friends, he can buy them, there are plenty of freeloaders.....
Besides, geniuses only need each other.
 
 
+2 # Deep Blue 2010-09-29 19:58
@Eben - This guy Zuckerman, besides being a narcissist and a voyeur, is a selfish jerk.

How can you possibly think he will become another Warren Buffet?
 
 
+3 # BSK777 2010-09-30 08:26
It is already coming down. Studies are showing that most FB users are people with low self esteem! God bless this guy for all the money he makes, but this isn't some world changing invention or anything worth thinking about. Low self esteem will go elsewhere too!
 

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