Facebook Anonymous
March 9, 2007
Facebook is ADDICTIVE
when i started using it earlier tonight i thought it would take 5 minutes. a few hours later, i’ve now gone through a fraction of the functionality, and i’m hooked.
BUT…
I hate the fact that the confirmation letters and numbers often don’t appear when requesting a friend (don’t worry, i didn’t know what that meant a few hours ago), and so you refresh the page to get the letters to show, and they JUST DON’T.
EVEN AFTER REFRESHING A FEW TIMES…
BUT (there’s more)….
luckily when you refresh a few times, it has some sort of glitch (guess it’s bad, but it allowed me to achieve my objective), and the email to the person you want to add gets sent even though you put the code in wrong.
on the surface, facebook is a schoolfriends / students site, but below the surface there is some amazing stuff going on.
any site that allows me to hook up with Alex Tew from MillionDollarHomePage spin genius, and the founders of sites such as linkedin is worth getting involved in…
…and i’m prepared to overlook the small problems facebook has.
UPDATE:
been looking into facebook to find out who founded it etc. fascinating reading. it was started by a harvard college dropout (aren’t all major internet start up’s these days?), Mark Zuckerberg.
don’t know how true these quotes are…
“During one series of talks with Microsoft, Facebook executives told their Microsoft peers they couldn’t do an 8 a.m. conference call because the company’s 22-year-old founder and chief executive, Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, wouldn’t be awake, says a person familiar with the talks. Microsoft executives were incredulous.
and
At one point in the Yahoo negotiations, the talks extended into the weekend, says a person familiar with the matter. Mr. Zuckerberg, this account continues, said he couldn’t take part because his girlfriend was in town. Others pointed out they were closing in on a billion-dollar deal. Mr. Zuckerberg said it didn’t matter: his cellphone would be off, this person says.”
UPDATE: 11/3
I’m on the net a lot, but i’m not quite as bad as this guy…
“Today I received this particular gem from IT.
It has come to our attention that you have been spending a considerable amount of time on a website known as “the Facebook”. This is unacceptable since firm regulations do not permit usage of social networking sites. Moreover, your combined total usage time over the past six months has now exceeded 500 hours (the equivalent of over 4 hours daily), which we feel would normally be sufficiently high to render us duty-bound to inform your manager. As a gesture of goodwill, we will not forward this email on this time, but would ask that you stop utilising this site, and in addition would advise you that this is your final warning, and subsequent offences will be treated with more severity and through the appropriate official channels.
It’s a measure of how warped I’ve become that, not only am I surprisedly proud of this, but in addition, the first thing I did was to post it here, and that losing my job worries me far less than losing Facebook ever could.”
