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Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Aha! You know what- Surprise, Nearly everything is a reinvention + addition of a few extra things from the past. You think SpaceX isn't a reinvention of what NASA has been doing since decades? Let alone that, if SpaceX is even doing all that its because somebody like NASA and space research organizations of various countries have contributed to fundamental things required for Space exploration. Nearly everything you…

Dude, you're the one describing things as "evil", "evil", and "satanic." The single worst thing jacquesm had to say about Facebook is that it makes money by getting people to give it information and then selling it, which is a fact. Respond to what people actually say, not what you read into their remarks.

Dude, the only thing you guys are constantly doing is to find reasons to make Facebook look bad and discredit them for their success.

Facebook, has something called as 'Terms and Conditions' of usage like any other piece of software/product on earth. Any piece of software/service/product you are likely to use has clauses that may not fit into what you would like to hear. And people accept those clauses because the net utility of the product is more than what they trade for the clauses.

But these constant rants about why Facebook doesn't deserve the success they have earned is getting boring and is not making sense anymore.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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post #291

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Dude, you're the one describing things as "evil", "evil", and "satanic." The single worst thing jacquesm had to say about Facebook is that it makes money by getting people to give it information and then selling it, which is a fact. Respond to what people actually say, not what you read into their remarks.

Dude, the only thing you guys are constantly doing is to find reasons to make Facebook look bad and discredit them for their success. Facebook, has something called as 'Terms and Conditions' of usage like any other piece of software/product on earth. Any piece of software/service/product you are likely to use has clauses that may not fit into what you would like to hear. And people accept those clauses because the ne…

"these constant rants about why Facebook doesn't deserve the success they have earned is getting boring and is not making sense anymore."

So is the constant 'defense' of Facebook from these 'rants'. Both sides should probably just give it a rest and move on?

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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There's a magnitude improvement from Altavista to Google. Not so with Facebook over an alternative.

Were you using Friendster in 2004? At that time, Facebook was a real quantum leap over a site that didn't let you log in because it was too slow. For me, at least, that was the critical step - having a site that just worked .

I take what I said back. For me personally, FB was a step back in terms of improving the quality of life, let alone any sort of leap.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Keep in mind everyone that they're trading at IPO price, making them worth over $100bn. If that's a failure then I hope one day to fail that badly.

It's not a failure for Facebook obviously. It's a failure for their institutional and retail investors, who were sold a very high initial valuation with little near-term upside.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Are they just clapping for 3 minutes straight or am I missing something here?

Those things are just PR stunts so that news directors have nice clips for the evening news -- they're gathered up, told to clap for a long time, and the cameras roll. In this case, it's particularly transparent because they're doing it in the park. The NYSE at least does this on that balcony overlooking the "trading floor", which gives it a look of legitimacy.

It's at the FB campus, not "in the park".

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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[Kilgore Trout had written a novel call the Big Board.] It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials. They were put on display in a zoo on a planet called Zircon-212. These fictitious people in the zoo had a big board supposedly showing stock market quotations and comodity prices along one wall of their habitat, and a news ticker, and a telephone that was supposedly connected to a…

Slaughterhouse 5 is a wonderful book and Kurt Vonnegut is sorely missed, but so it goes.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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This is Hacker News. The top-voted comment on this thread really should be words of praise for what Zuckerberg and his team have accomplished. Every hacker, every entrepreneur, every creator should derive inspiration and uplift from Facebook's story. It's a rare bright day in the middle of the worst economic environment since the 1930s. It doesn't matter whether the company will grow into a $100B valuation. It does m…

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Re: NASDAQ:FB

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> The top-voted comment on this thread really should be words of praise for what Zuckerberg and his team have accomplished. The top voted comment actually is an excerpt from a book by a man that I respect a whole lot more than I respect Mark Zuckerberg. For one he seemed a genuinely nice and modest human being. He also influenced the lives of countless people by being creative rather than by selling off their private…

It must be thoughtlessness. You can't honestly look at Facebook's contribution to the Arab Spring (and similar social justice causes) or the millions of people it has reconnected (long-lost family/friends) and think that SpaceX has any chance of creating comparable positive impact at any point in the near future. I like SpaceX too. It's every geek's childhood fantasy. It's a great thing. Elon is the real Tony Stark.…

a. Facebook != social media

b. Doesn't matter how many social networking sites are built if we run out of room.

c. Mapping, telecoms, climate, nuclear proliferation.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Facebook is the new AOL. Exactly. And the worst part of it is there is a kid acting as CEO calling himself a "hacker". Hackers do not turn websites into corporations. Imagine if all ISP's were turned into "AOL's". Facebook did not connect billions of people. They were already connected. All they needed to do was share their contact details. And the facility for that already existed in thousands of other websites. Peo…

>>Facebook is the new AOL. There is nothing wrong with that actually. >>And the worst part of it is there is a kid acting as CEO calling himself a "hacker". Hackers do not turn websites into corporations. Imagine if all ISP's were turned into "AOL's". Please define what a hacker is. Seriously you make it look as though a hacker as just somebody who keeps doing tech work for free or a throw away price. What is wrong w…

Money, money, money. Valuation. Money. Rich. Money. Kid on dorm got rich. Money. Money.

I don't see much about ethics, changing the world, expanding the frontiers of science, moving people out of poverty, anything like that.

Now please play this right and tell me Mr. Zuck has donated lot of money he got from his business, how that's made the world better, etc.

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