Good grief. What an awful placement for a Flash ad. The 'x' button is inaccessible, presumably because it got accidentally layered behind the masthead.
We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better
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#12If this story has gotten you down, wondering if we've created an inescapable dystopia, then this page may brighten your spirits --- an existence proof of another option --- the one that's worked well for Donald Knuth (whose contributions to the tech industry are indisputable): http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Well, there is a tiny detail: "I have a wonderful secretary." Not all of us can afford that...
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#13"All that happens must be known." Wow. So much insidiousness packed into six little words. They conveniently forget to mention by whom it should be known.
It's almost like maybe that will be a theme of the novel!
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#14There are some accusations that the plot of this adaptation are very similar to a real memoir published by Kate Losse:
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#15There are some accusations that the plot of this adaptation are very similar to a real memoir published by Kate Losse: https://medium.com/p/bf1a7c77873b
I read Kate Losse's book in preparation for reading this one.
The general schema of her book is she became obsessed with Facebook while just a user. So she applied when she saw a job ad for Facebook (on Facebook). Started out in customer service (later renamed to something else because customers are people who pay for a service). The engineers and the engineering floor was the place to be. She managed to make it to their domain through a clever side project of her own. Facebook started to grow up once Sheryl Sandberg came in. She made it all the way to the inner sanctum (ghost writing for MZ).
It really is a quick read. The parallels that I will be looking for - does DE's character protagonist start to reject the 'cult' culture gradually over time - all the while jumping and up the ranks.
The supporting details of the story are what matter: Since FBers all had inside knowledge of FB and couldn't manage to slip up and spill projects under development in casual social encounters, they started close-circling their social lives until they just basically hung out night-and-day with other fellow FB employees. And there was a nice passage where she described an ephemeral experience and how it could not be FB'd. Also, a widely reported FB anecdote - female employees had to wear shirts with MZ's face on it and male employees had to wear sandals on MZ's birthay (she called in sick - it was too much). All FB company events were professionally photographed - not an accident they looked good (so as to project the best FB brand - smiles, we're all having young young fun fun fun)... There was a pivotal moment with a co-worker where they did not go forward (romantically, in the moment) because of what would all their co-workers say when it was FB'd... The summer pool house was her idea - and she ruled that domain pool-side with her fellow non-geeks.
I have a lot of respect for what Eggers has done with 826 Valencia, The Writing Center. If he has co-opted Kate's personal story (including some details, like above - even if slightly refactored), I will be sad.
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#16There are some accusations that the plot of this adaptation are very similar to a real memoir published by Kate Losse: https://medium.com/p/bf1a7c77873b
I read Kate Losse's book in preparation for reading this one. The general schema of her book is she became obsessed with Facebook while just a user. So she applied when she saw a job ad for Facebook (on Facebook). Started out in customer service (later renamed to something else because customers are people who pay for a service). The engineers and the engineering floor was the place to be. She managed to make it to t…
Losse says she'll probably post an excerpt of her book for people to compare with Eggers's: https://twitter.com/fake_train/status/383965453283913728.
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#17What an oddly responsive page
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#19There are some accusations that the plot of this adaptation are very similar to a real memoir published by Kate Losse: https://medium.com/p/bf1a7c77873b
I read Kate Losse's book in preparation for reading this one. The general schema of her book is she became obsessed with Facebook while just a user. So she applied when she saw a job ad for Facebook (on Facebook). Started out in customer service (later renamed to something else because customers are people who pay for a service). The engineers and the engineering floor was the place to be. She managed to make it to t…
The parallels that I will be looking for - does DE's character protagonist start to reject the 'cult' culture gradually over time
To be honest, it's hard to see how any work of fiction on a topic like this - on a trajectory like the one the excerpt here sets up - could not have this trait, "plagarized" or not.
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#20Wow, I could never write this well in a million years, but as I was reading, I couldn't help but feel that this was a blog post that I've been wanting to write for a while.
Without going on a rant and hi-jacking this thread, replacing "Participation Rank" with "consumption of beer/alcohol", "gathering" with "late night beer party", "Dad had a seizure" with "Mom was very sick", "kayak" with "badminton", "profile" with "LinkedIn", and you have 100% of my story give and take a few breaks in flow and sentence structure errors that are bound to happen with simple string replacement.
Guess it's time to finally go write that blog post.