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Mark Zuckerberg Discusses Steve Jobs' Influence on Facebook
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For what it's worth - I have no respect for Zuckerberg at all - he stole an idea and made billions off of it and still can't put together 2 cohesive sentences. Only goes to show that money doesn't mean diddly, he's still an idiot. Kinda ironic that a guy who created the no.1 social network has no social skills at all.
Then again, Facebook is meant for people to avoid actual physical contact when socializing.
However - I don't get all the fuss about 'stealing information' and 'privacy breaches'. You put it there! It's not like facebook hacked into God knows what and stole it from you, you offered it to them on their own website.
Also, if that information incriminates you or exposes to you any danger, then why were you putting it there in the first place? I have an account because I have friends all over the world and being in contact with them is easiest through facebook. International text messaging I can't afford really, plus phone numbers and emails change all the time so it's hard to keep up. Not everyone has an iPhone so iMessage is limited. There are some services like Whatsapp that are crossplatform, but again - not everyone has a smartphone.
On my account I have 1 profile picture just so people can see that it's me, my wall is turned off, I don't comment/tag/like stuff so I'm not an active user. The only feature I really use is [Private] Messages.
It's not like Google isn't monitoring your Gmail, Docs, G+ account etc. And there are many more examples (Apple tracking iPhone users through GPS fiasco?)
Ease up people!
Then again, Facebook is meant for people to avoid actual physical contact when socializing.
However - I don't get all the fuss about 'stealing information' and 'privacy breaches'. You put it there! It's not like facebook hacked into God knows what and stole it from you, you offered it to them on their own website.
Also, if that information incriminates you or exposes to you any danger, then why were you putting it there in the first place? I have an account because I have friends all over the world and being in contact with them is easiest through facebook. International text messaging I can't afford really, plus phone numbers and emails change all the time so it's hard to keep up. Not everyone has an iPhone so iMessage is limited. There are some services like Whatsapp that are crossplatform, but again - not everyone has a smartphone.
On my account I have 1 profile picture just so people can see that it's me, my wall is turned off, I don't comment/tag/like stuff so I'm not an active user. The only feature I really use is [Private] Messages.
It's not like Google isn't monitoring your Gmail, Docs, G+ account etc. And there are many more examples (Apple tracking iPhone users through GPS fiasco?)
Ease up people!
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Lets fix this. Shall we?
Oh, he is so amazing. I had a lot of questions for him.
Whats so hard about that?
Social network sites always have a monopoly. Friendster was one, then MySpace, then Facebook. That's how it works. There's always going to be one huge social network. Because people want to use one, not two or more.
And that is the scary part of it ... Once I log off from FB I want not to see my avatar in news pages I'm reading and asking me for comments. That sniffing goes too far. I have no problem with all the crap I write in FB direct. That can be used by everyone and my responsibility. But outside FB I want to be alone.
And comparing a company like Apple actually doing development and production of goods is different from just ad-driven Internet companies like FB. One little needle and the bubble is gone.
Apple survived with good ideas, products etc.
If he's bad at public speaking then why did he go on air? Did somebody force him to do so? Was somebody pointing a gun at his head? Nope.
He just wants to be in the public eye even though with every appearance he is becoming more and more of a laughing stock. Steve Jobs heir my ass.
I never said I'd do a better job at public speaking and this isn't about me. It's about a young, quasi-genius who won't spend some money on a quality PR team and some public speaking training. Something that is expected of a quality company and it's CEO. And given the subject at hand, the late Steve Jobs (certainly one of Silicon Valley's giants), I'd especially like to see him utter 2-3 normal sentences of an anecdote. But this extends further on - he couldn't be coherent to save his life. It's not babbling about him, it's the truth and there are tens of other forumers saying the same thing.
My assumption was correct, your interpretation of my assumption was wrong. I did not say FB was for bizarro social shut-ins ONLY, I meant that it is turning us into social bizarros, with people making fake friends on facebook, collecting connections like they'll increase your income or whatnot, stalking people by looking at their photos all day.
John Carmack. I doubt many here would argue against the man's genius but when he used to post updates about his progress on a given game, it showed all the grammatical prowess of a 10-year-old. Contrary to what any would-be grammar Nazis believe, you can be a brilliant person without masterful grammar skills.
I HATE when the media compares Suckerberg to Jobs. Not even close. One was a business genius, the other is a lucky fool who rode the social media wave on a surfboard engineered by many before him. FAIL.
Did I mention that I hate Mark Zuckerberg?
Did I mention that I hate Mark Zuckerberg?
How was Mark lucky? They are both brilliant at what they did. Why the hate?
If you meant he did it at the right place and the right time, then the same can be said about Steve Jobs.
But Steve's genuinely hip, he's got very good taste and charisma, none of which characteristics M.Z. has.
