Posted on 08/19/2012 10:43:24 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The deepening slide in Facebook Inc.'s stock is fueling talk once considered implausible on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
Should Mark Zuckerberg, the social media visionary but neophyte corporate manager, step aside as CEO to let a more seasoned executive run the multibillion-dollar company?
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yes Skype is great but is not comparable to fb. If I want to make phone calls long distance on my cell is free. Only diff with Skype is you can see them.
I’ll keep my fb for relatives.
I don’t have a high opinion of social media - the only real innovations coming from this space are the norming of exhibitionism and the abandonment of privacy. But the criticisms of Zuckerberg stemming from Facebook’s share price are silly - he stated pretty clearly before Facebook went public that he was determined to focus on his long-term strategies and not on short-term investor gratification. Investors who feel they’ve been burned have only themselves to blame - snarking about Zuckerberg’s hoodie and what-not is ridiculous.
He made a lot of money in the process.
His limitation, unlike Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and several others, Zuckerberg is NOT a VISIONARY.
In essence, he's a guy who won the lottery.
You are not alone in finding it more and more annoying...it is increasingly less and less user friendly as far as an interface to interact with friends...it is becoming more like a website with the option to make comments. It needs to revert back to the way it was circa mid 2008 with the Wall being wholly separate from the other postings. There was a lot, lot more friend to friend direct discussion back when it was like that and other postings being separate. It was so much better and fun to be interacting with friends both current and old you haven’t seen in awhile and would otherwise not be able to keep up with so regularly - and I thought that was the purpose of facebook. Now you just post something and everything is just a reaction (if people want to even comment) to what was posted. The timeline is now especially annoying.
The value of eBay is that it’s making money and projecting rather steady earnings growth going forward.
Actually, according to the movie “Social Network,” it was the Winkelvii who had the good idea.
First Obama picks the CEO of GM and now the LAT wants to pick the CEO of Facebook. Sigh.
I’ll probably be using eBay tomorrow AM to buy MORE coupons. I know of a coupon where if you buy it for just 75 cents, it is the same as putting 5 bucks in your pocket or a net of $4.25. And it is one of those MAGIC coupons you can use on anything.
Be thankful they don't offer more. What I mean is, with their cavalier attitude towards ownership of user data, who would want to involve them in any financial matter?
“Is it just me or does anybody else find Facebook to be getting incredibly ANNOYING lately.”
LOL! As I was reading the first sentence of the article, that is THE EXACT thought I was having! I used to post to FB links to political articles I found at FR; never, ever anything personal unlike my fool “friends”. I never read anything they posted either.
But, I quit doing even that because FB is SO ANNOYING! They keep changing the UI, and never for the better, taking more and more control from the user about how they MAKE the users use FB or view FB. So, I finally just drifted away, because really, enough was enough. I guess enough die-hard sheeple will always hang there no matter how rigid FB becomes because they otherwise have NO FILE WHATSOEVER!
“The natural result of “successful social networking” is that you get constant pings and reminders from a bunch of seriously stunted people every time they take a dump. “
Yep, from that generation that has been taught in the government schools how special they are just because they exist. So, here they are now, constantly posting the inane trivia of their trivial lives, thus “proving” to themselves and the world just how special they really are.
“I have otherwise intelligent friends who have become shut-ins and social cripples over this nonsense”
Uh, are you completely sure you haven’t misjudged their intellect?
I found a good program that's high rated on Cnet that will fix the timeline problem. It's an easy, quick download and when installed, you'll see the "old" FB page instead of that crappy 2-column timeline.
www.timelineremove.com
10,000 ways for scammers to rip you off.
That's finance related.
Works great so far.
*sigh*. They belong to Mensa. But that only proves someone passed a #2 pencil test decades ago.
(Before Facebook rotted their brains??)
Cool! :-)
“*sigh*. They belong to Mensa. But that only proves someone passed a #2 pencil test decades ago.”
Ah, yes. Mensa. OK. All is clear now about the source of the supposed intelligence of these friends who love Obama.
(BTW, if you are in Mensa I apologize to you in advance for what follows.)
Here’s some choice words I’ve had here about Mensa in the past. First a post by another FReeper and then my response.
Posted by someone else at FR:
“Well, smart people quit Mensa very quickly when they realize paying a substantial annual fee gets them virtually nothing but the chance to stand around at informal gatherings with a lot of underemployed whiners who constantly complain that the world refuses to recognize their brilliance”
My response to that post:
“Well, that answers my question about whether any actual smart people are in MENSA. The only MENSAs I ever met made a really, really, really big deal about how they were in MENSA, and yet they didn’t seem all that smart to me. It struck me that it was very important to these people that they were in MENSA because it “proved” to the world (and themselves) how smart they were, and it seemed to me that these people were actually somewhat pathetic. Thus, I wondered if MENSA was actually made up entirely of pathetic people who were not actually very bright.
In my own experience, really smart people have no need whatsoever to prove to anyone else how smart they are. The world either recognizes that fact or not, and they don’t particularly care one way or the other. If they happen to meet another very smart person, then they may have found a new friend. Everyone else falls into one of two categories: teachable and non-teachable. Teachable people are deserving of their attention; non-teachable ones are not.
Since I always wondered why any really smart person would need to join an organization to prove they were smart, I’ve also always wondered if any actual smart people were in MENSA. Now I know. Thanks for the insiders point of view, namely that MENSA is in fact a good discriminator for intelligence: any intelligent person who joins MESA thinking it is an organization of intelligent people quickly discovers otherwise and quits, leaving only not-so-intelligent people as members. In fact, MENSA perfectly selects for those who remain members: not-so-bright and unaccomplished people who desperately wish the world would see them otherwise.”
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