Great Article About Facebook & Zuckerberg

[abduLMaria]

i was planning to de-activate my Facebook account.

or to delete it - i don't want them claiming me as a member.

first i have to contact the few Facebook friends i have to give them my email etc.

IN THE MEANTIME, a great article about Facebook.

Zuckerberg is so slimy he's not a snake, more like a snail, or a slug, which isn't fair to snails & slugs, but anyway ...

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-face ... -as-good-3

"In January, however, Mark told a friend that "Eduardo is paying for my servers." Eventually, Eduardo would agree to invest $15,000 in a company that would, in April 2004, be formed as Facebook LLC.  For his money, Eduardo would get 30% of the company.

Eduardo was also involved in Facebook's earliest days, as a confidant of Mark Zuckerberg.

In December, 2003, a week after Mark's first meeting with the HarvardConnection team, when he was telling the Winklevosses that he was too busy with schoolwork to work on or even think about HarvardConnection.com, Mark was telling Eduardo a different story.  On December 7, 2003, we believe Mark sent Eduardo the following IM:

Check this site out: www.harvardconnection.com and then go to harvardconnection.com/datehome.php. Someone is already trying to make a dating site. But they made a mistake haha. They asked me to make it for them. So I'm like delaying it so it won't be ready until after the facebook thing comes out.

This IM suggests that, within a week of meeting with the Winklevosses for the first time, Mark had already decided to start his own, similar project--"the facebook thing."  It also suggests that he had developed a strategy for dealing with his would-be competition: Delay developing it."


"Zuck: So you know how I'm making that dating site

Zuck: I wonder how similar that is to the Facebook thing

Zuck: Because they're probably going to be released around the same time

Zuck: Unless I f*ck the dating site people over and quit on them right before I told them I'd have it done.

D'Angelo: haha

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Well abdulMaria,

I don't know if the classical Talmudic Behavior comes from Nature or Nurture... but in Zuckerberg's case... he has "it" and "it" is clearly apparent with the morosely common J-Tribe Obnoxiousness and Scam Orientation... ("JOSO") .  Great article.

[kolnidre]

I heard the C2C interview with the author of The Facebook Effect, which sounded like a blatant commercial for social networking and the book. His claims that Zuckerberg is a brilliant kid and businessman also didn't sound convincing. Nothing that big can grow that fast without massive infusions of capital, and we know who has that.

I'd considered getting an account on FB to view friends' photos, but can't really be arsed to get sucked into that whole universe of mediocrity.