Is Mark Zuckerberg in over his hoodie as Facebook CEO?

Los Angeles Times ^ | August 17, 2012 | Walter Hamilton and Jessica Guynn

[Windflier]

I can’t help you much beyond that, I don’t use Facebook (wife says you’re welcome).

Geez, you sound just like me when I'm trying to help someone with a Facebook question.

Although I use it all the time, I don't know a whole lot about the finer points, so my wife usually steps in and does the heavy lifting :-)

[winner3000]

Actually, most of Ebay’s growth is thanks to Paypal. That’s truly the main business plan of a Silicon Valley company: make a boatload of money off of one idea, then essentially become a private equity investor. To the extent that you recognize good ideas and invest in them (like Google did with YouTube), you’ll be successful; to the extent you can’t, your growth rate slows down until even your first good idea gets replaced by something better (a la Yahoo).

[Gorzaloon]

(BTW, if you are in Mensa I apologize to you in advance for what follows.)

Haha, apology not needed.

My wife and I joined that and another group many years ago as part of our "Bucket List".

There are upsides.

Having a high teacher membership, events are structured to be a cheap night out. There are fun events, games nights, hobby Special Interest Groups, etc.

All the negatives that person reported are there. But the human dynamics are really not any different from a Lions Club, VFW, Elks, etc.

There are dysfunctional, sometimes unbearable members who join for ignoble reasons, there are good interesting people as well.

It's just another self-selecting tribal thing. Like likes like.

That said, in the case of Mensa, Intertel, Trip9, etc., stupidity is not supposed to be an excuse...though members can do astoundingly stupid things, like throwing away their lives on Facebook, or voting Democrat.