[Closed] Mark Zuckerberg

Ohhh missed that, Giros on Eurosplatt and now it's ToC.

right time right place, nothing else

Jolly good of the Beeb to give him that lovely [s]advert[/s] program just a few days before the IPO, wasn't it?

Wouldn't you be smug?

Wouldn't you be smug?

Best of luck to him. IMO I don't think he's smug just comes across as very passionate and confident in what he's doing.

Turning down a billion dollars and then turning down fifteen billion 😯

I can't believe how easy it is for them to make money from...er, twits. A case for my duck-pooh. I "like" Tescos. etc etc. bleedin weird.

right time right place, nothing else

Not sure I agree with that. He obviously had the drive and vision and believed what he was doing enough not to sell out and walk away a rich man years ago. There were plenty of social networking sites around before facebook which didn't realise the value of what they had.

This is an interesting read: http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/mark-zuckerberg-2012-5/

He obviously had the drive and vision and believed what he was doing enough not to sell out and walk away a rich man years ago.

Incredible vision or naive?

One thing that got me more than anything.

His desk. In the middle of the room. With everyone else.

I've a friend working in the Cali offices, apparently he just works like everyone else, no pretentiousness, no office in the corner with a locked door.

That, I respect.

I think it showed he wasn't wholly motivated by money.

I don't think he's 100% driven by money, okay he wants to make it but the way he lives and dresses. He's more like a kid in toy shop.

I think a lot of his comments demonstrated how important communication and groups are to him.

I imagine beyond the few hundred million, money just becomes pretty much meaningless, unless you start giving it all away to good causes.

Hasn't he donated something like a hundred million dollars?

i agree with jon 1973, theres an upper limit to what you can enjoy spending really.
i think people who are motivated by money, its not about having it in the bank, its about making it.

Remember Tom?

One day you won't remember Mark either.

Is everyone here on Facebook? I must be missing something, but I'm not that interested in knowing that someone I didn't like thirty years ago at school has just put the kettle on.

I must be missing something, but I'm not that interested in knowing that someone I didn't like thirty years ago at school has just put the kettle on.

I think you must be missing something. I'm on Facebook and I don't get updates from people I don't like. Why would you add them as friends? Do you give your phone number to people you don't like or have no interest in?

Facebook is what YOU make of it.

I actually deactivated my account a month ago, mostly as I live in Twitter, but also as I don't feel the need to share that much information with people in the manner that FriendFace allows.

I use G+ for that as I can disseminate information to those I choose.

Durty.

Remember Tom?

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Incidentally, someone I know put their sort code account details on Facebook t'other day, openly, so the whole world could read them

Incidentally, someone I know put their sort code account details on Facebook t'other day, openly, so the whole world could read them

Remember Tom?

of course I do..
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Like the details they used to print on cheques for the whole world to see?

🙄

Just trying to make a point that people believe in the big cuddly Facebook so much that they'll put anything up there under the belief that it's completely safe because their fwiends can see it. But thank you for pointing out my stupidity, it will help me grow as a person and hopefully gives you a warm feeling inside. I've even made a few grammer mistakes you can pick me up on too

Facebook is what YOU make of it.

As you might have guessed, I'm a cynical misanthrope so I'm not even on it!

Just trying to make a point that people believe in the big cuddly Facebook

I think the fact that someone posts bank details like that just proves they're stupid. Facebook is just a vessel for their stupidity. The same as people who drive off of cliffs following sat nav instructions.

I think the face that someone posts details like that just proves proves that [s]some people are[/s] [b]society is[/b] stupid. Facebook is just a vessel for their stupidity. The same as people who [s]drive off of cliffs following sat nav instructions.[/s] [b]vote tory because the Sun told them to[/b]

Grumble grumble life.

There's nothing wrong in putting those details into the public domain, so a pretty poor example, unless they were looking to receive money.
It's about as harmful as putting your name and DOB (date of birth)...

But thank you for pointing out my stupidity,

I don't watch programmes like that, cos I feel as if they are putting people on pedestals. Smells of sycophancy to me. I think these people are just taking an opportunity and doing their job the same as millions of other people do every day, they just have exposure.

Why yes, I am also bitter, how did you guess?

There's nothing wrong in putting those details into the public domain, so a pretty poor example, unless they were looking to receive money.
It's about as harmful as putting your name and DOB (date of birth)...

This is all information that can probably be found in various places, and as said earlier you control what info is input.
The point here being that simply putting your sort code and account number isn't a problem or to be considered stupid.
No one can access the money in your account. Just like losing a cheque book, there is no problem... 🙄

I actually deactivated my account a month ago, mostly as I live in Twitter, but also as I don't feel the need to share that much information with people in the manner that FriendFace allows.

I use G+ for that as I can disseminate information to those I choose.

Durty.

Is everyone here on Facebook? I must be missing something, but I'm not that interested in knowing that someone I didn't like thirty years ago at school has just put the kettle on.

But what happens when it's your name, DOB, activities, interests, thoughts, current and past location, who your mother is, what her maiden name was, what the first school you attended was... all in a searchable database?

It's hardly Facebook's fault if you splash that stuff all over the web. Is it...?

It's hardly Facebook's fault if you splash that stuff all over the web. Is it...?

Sure, if you don't put the information up in the first place you have nothing to worry about, and it's debatable as to whether you have anything to worry about anyway, but I just don't trust a service that keeps moving the goal posts.

the whole Facebook system of Apps is geared toward opening up the audience of your private information to third parties, including information you provided under the condition that it is only visible to friends.

Unless you untick the box that says "allow third party apps access to what my friends can see".

I am disappointed with the makers of FaceBook for not giving me a 'Dislike' button instead of 'Like' ... that would be more entertaining.

The 'like' button seems very sycophantic - I'm sure there are people out there who are almost offended if their friends don't 'like' their status.

My wife closed her FB account and piggy-packed onto mine. Now my FB is full of all the drivel from her friends. I can't even read any of it as they're mostly Brazilian & I haven't learnt the lingo yet.

The stupidest thing is, 99% of her 'friends' seem to just endlessly post links to pictures they found somewhere on the internet that they thought were amusing.

Completely pointless. And very boring.

I think the fact that someone posts bank details like that just proves they're stupid. Facebook is just a vessel for their stupidity. The same as people who drive off of cliffs following sat nav instructions.

Bank account numbers and sort codes are pretty freely passed around and all you can do with them is pay money in to the account. So not too concerned.

Bank account numbers and sort codes are pretty freely passed around and all you can do with them is pay money in to the account. So not too concerned.

[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7174760.stm ]Sure about that?[/url]

I didn't watch this for the Zuckerberg content... 😳

Is everyone here on Facebook?

Nope, don't use or Twitter.

I used Facebook a lot when I was at Uni and found it useful for social and academic purposes. I made the mistake of accepting every Tom, Dick and Harry's friend request. Although I knew I could pull the plug on any of them and restrict the news feed etc, the nosy part of me could't help but read their banal status updates and look at the photos of them advertising how great their lives are. Eventually I realised it wasted a lot of my time and put me in a bad mood, so I deactivated my account. That was about 3 years ago and I've not missed it. Nothing against Facebook, it's just the way I used it and the people I was friends with wound me up.

People get very excited about FB but if your security settings are set properly and you're sensible about what you put up there then you are pretty much safe, no worse off than any of the information that can be collected on you from other sources.

having seen Social Network and that docu twice and some other stuff, he doesn't appear to me to be that much of a fascinating guy to me, I can't see him wanting to summit a mountain or diving depths or pushing himself physically, it's a mental game. he is totally the right brain in the right time with a certain egotism or something. I don't personally think his ideology is all about people coming together. He's a smart
bloke wanting to be the best and outsmarting his rivals. Which he is very good at. I'm a natural cynic, perhaps what he does is fantastic. personally I think he should've sold up and become a multi-billionnaire before the advertisers and marketers got hold and done something else...buy an island and ride a bike!

He's obviously obsessed with big numbers and being bigger and better, That's fine but maybe he is missing out on stuff being in a facebook office. I feel sorry for him. I think he should come to wales and live in my flat and do my job. and I'll do the billionaire thing on californian beaches. then he'll be happy.