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While reading THE FACEBOOK EFFECT, I had to wonder what if Hitler had Facebook?
Can't put this book down. Also available in audio book format, I believe.
I'm now up to the facebook privacy part of the book, covering the evolution of Facebook's privacy policy. And how Mark Zuckerberg felt nothing is or should be private for the user.
So what if a player on the high school football team had a photo posted on facebook showing him drinking or smoking pot, and the coach seen it and kicked the guy off the team?
Or if someone on trial for some crime, found out one of the jurors had been posting on facebook information about the trial while the trial was in progress. Ending with the trial then being tossed out?
Or if a married woman seeking to mess around, changed her facebook status from married to single. Her husband then noticed her status change on facebook, and kills her?
Or maybe someone posted on facebook that they hated their job. The boss then seen that, and fires the employee?
Or how about after a job interview, the company then looks for you on facebook and that you drink, or whore around, or even much less, and thus rejects your application?
All of these things, and more, actually happened according to the books author.
So I was wondering what if Hitler had facebook? How many Germans with Jewish friends would have been outted and jailed, or worse?
How many Jews would have been located by simply checking facebook for others they had be-friended?
How many Germans would had been arrested because they, at one time, posted anti-Hitler comments on facebook?
Take that question even further, what if a Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann, or the likes of such, were to be elected president down the road someday? And then use facebook as a source to round up, say, gays or atheists or maybe even Mormons? People that they see as a threat to America?
Maybe keep "certain people" from getting a job, buying a house, going to college, or voting?
ANyway... I thought the movie The Social Network was the tell all of facebook history.
Was I wrong!!!!
"The Facebook Effect" should be read by anyone that is even thinking about using facebook. If nothing else, just for the facebook evolution timeline.
What a great read!
On how Zuckerberg originally ran facebook off his laptop.
How Sean Parker (of napster fame) was the real brains behind the growth of facebook. How Sean parker paid for the dinner of that infamous first meeting with Zuckerberg, with bouncing the check. Parker was broke.
How Sean Parker agreed to leave facebook as acting president after his ongoing drug problems kept showing up in the press. Parker still retained his full facebook stock cut and perks.
How Zuckerberg wanted to integrate a napster-like file sharing system into facebook so members could rip their CD collection and then share it with all their facebook friends. Zuckerberg did not feel that would be illegal, as it was with napater.
And how Shan Parker talked Zuckerberg out of the idea just days before it was to go live, stating that will kill off facebook through massive lawsuits. Zuckerberg disagreed but conceded.
How Zuckerberg parents put up most of the money needed, in the beginning, so Zuckerberg could rent monthly server space to keep facebook from crashing.
Or how Zuckerberg intended that facebook only consists of college students. You had to register with an email ending in .edu to join.
Then later, Zuckerberg decided to expand to high school students also, but feared the college students would rebel and leave facebook.
And how MTV wanted to buy facebook and use it for MTV purposes only.
How no major investors wanted to invest into facebook unless Zuckerberg agreed to allow the company to sit on the board, and that Zuckerberg agree to make a fast buck and then sell facebook to the highest bidder shortly after.
And how Zuckerberg would get so upset during high pressured buyout business meetings, that Zuckerberg would leave the table, go into the bathroom, sit on the floor, and cry.
What a book!
PS. And if you could have invested $300,000 with Mark Zuckerberg back in 2004, and Zuckerberg would have truly welcomed the cash, you would now have over $20,000,000.
Can't put this book down. Also available in audio book format, I believe.
I'm now up to the facebook privacy part of the book, covering the evolution of Facebook's privacy policy. And how Mark Zuckerberg felt nothing is or should be private for the user.
So what if a player on the high school football team had a photo posted on facebook showing him drinking or smoking pot, and the coach seen it and kicked the guy off the team?
Or if someone on trial for some crime, found out one of the jurors had been posting on facebook information about the trial while the trial was in progress. Ending with the trial then being tossed out?
Or if a married woman seeking to mess around, changed her facebook status from married to single. Her husband then noticed her status change on facebook, and kills her?
Or maybe someone posted on facebook that they hated their job. The boss then seen that, and fires the employee?
Or how about after a job interview, the company then looks for you on facebook and that you drink, or whore around, or even much less, and thus rejects your application?
All of these things, and more, actually happened according to the books author.
So I was wondering what if Hitler had facebook? How many Germans with Jewish friends would have been outted and jailed, or worse?
How many Jews would have been located by simply checking facebook for others they had be-friended?
How many Germans would had been arrested because they, at one time, posted anti-Hitler comments on facebook?
Take that question even further, what if a Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann, or the likes of such, were to be elected president down the road someday? And then use facebook as a source to round up, say, gays or atheists or maybe even Mormons? People that they see as a threat to America?
Maybe keep "certain people" from getting a job, buying a house, going to college, or voting?
ANyway... I thought the movie The Social Network was the tell all of facebook history.
Was I wrong!!!!
"The Facebook Effect" should be read by anyone that is even thinking about using facebook. If nothing else, just for the facebook evolution timeline.
What a great read!
On how Zuckerberg originally ran facebook off his laptop.
How Sean Parker (of napster fame) was the real brains behind the growth of facebook. How Sean parker paid for the dinner of that infamous first meeting with Zuckerberg, with bouncing the check. Parker was broke.
How Sean Parker agreed to leave facebook as acting president after his ongoing drug problems kept showing up in the press. Parker still retained his full facebook stock cut and perks.
How Zuckerberg wanted to integrate a napster-like file sharing system into facebook so members could rip their CD collection and then share it with all their facebook friends. Zuckerberg did not feel that would be illegal, as it was with napater.
And how Shan Parker talked Zuckerberg out of the idea just days before it was to go live, stating that will kill off facebook through massive lawsuits. Zuckerberg disagreed but conceded.
How Zuckerberg parents put up most of the money needed, in the beginning, so Zuckerberg could rent monthly server space to keep facebook from crashing.
Or how Zuckerberg intended that facebook only consists of college students. You had to register with an email ending in .edu to join.
Then later, Zuckerberg decided to expand to high school students also, but feared the college students would rebel and leave facebook.
And how MTV wanted to buy facebook and use it for MTV purposes only.
How no major investors wanted to invest into facebook unless Zuckerberg agreed to allow the company to sit on the board, and that Zuckerberg agree to make a fast buck and then sell facebook to the highest bidder shortly after.
And how Zuckerberg would get so upset during high pressured buyout business meetings, that Zuckerberg would leave the table, go into the bathroom, sit on the floor, and cry.
What a book!
PS. And if you could have invested $300,000 with Mark Zuckerberg back in 2004, and Zuckerberg would have truly welcomed the cash, you would now have over $20,000,000.
