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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by marincounty on Saturday November 21, 2015 @07:22AM (#10606614)
What? He waited waited until he had enough people hooked, and then, and only then did he go public.

He gently pricked our arms with ads. When he didn't get much flack; he went hog wild.

This dude is all about the money. Mark didn't want to make a little money--he wanted it all.

Hell, he tried to weasel the original founder's fathers money out of FB. Why--because he wanted the money. Oh, the foreign dude didn't were a hoodie, and a tee shirt to the office?

Exactly what is Mark's vision? It's money. I thought I got him wrong when I heard Internet.org was going to set up as a California nonprofit, but found out that was just rumor. It's not even a Delaware nonprofit. It's for profit! He'll always have complete control.

Personally, I think FB is one of the worst/dictatorial things to happen to the Internet. Will it go away--maybe in certain demographic markets, like the Bay Area. I don't run into people anymore asking me to "FB them.", and when I do go on there a lot of people I know only activate on the weekends. Will the rest of the world ever dislike FB--who knows? They still like disco.

I've hero worshiped very few tech founders. Maybe it's just me, but I always seem to see there worst traights? Maybe because I was screwed over once?

As to all his philanthropic work--it has tax benefits. People lionionize Bill Gates too. I don't get it? We were forced into buying his operating system. It's our money in that nonprofit him, and his wife play God with.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by ryanmonroe on Saturday November 21, 2015 @08:37AM (#10606761)
Who "forced" you to buy a Microsoft OS?
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by dannypgh on Saturday November 21, 2015 @09:07AM (#10606825)
Microsoft, by charging OEMs for a license regardless of whether you bought a computer with Windows or not. It took a consent decree to stop the process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Window...

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by humanrebar on Saturday November 21, 2015 @09:06AM (#10606823)
I have to use MS or Apple OSs to work from home.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by jedrek on Saturday November 21, 2015 @11:48AM (#10607215)
That's between you and your employer.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by humanrebar on Sunday November 22, 2015 @12:40AM (#10609198)
Give me a break. It's an honest answer to the question.

And it's not just between me and my employer. It's an industry-wide problem, albeit not the biggest problem out there.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by wyclif on Saturday November 21, 2015 @08:24AM (#10606735)
I don't care much about Facebook's success, but I'm curious about one thing you said here...the "activate on weekends" part. Is this a type of social behaviour in and of itself for Bay Area tech people? You're not talking about logging out of Facebook, I think you mean deleting your account for one-week periods and reactivating it only on the weekend, right?