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« on: February 07, 2012, 10:48:58 AM »
Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?'


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/disruptions-facebook-users-ask-wheres-172802619.html


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SAN FRANCISCO - By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive, owes me about $50.
Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the postapocalyptic movie "The Day After Tomorrow": bleak, desolate and really quite sad. (Or MySpace, if that is easier to imagine.) Facebook surely would never be valued at anything close to $100 billion, which it very well could be in its coming initial public offering.
In the company's S-1 filing, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission this week, Facebook boasts about its statistics: annually, people "like" one trillion things; 91 billion photos are uploaded; half a billion people use Facebook on mobile phones; and hundreds of millions are annoyingly "poked."
So all this leaves me with a question: Where's my cut? I helped build this thing, too. Facebook laid the foundation of the house and put in the plumbing, but we put up the walls, picked out the furniture, painted and hung photos, and invited everyone over for dinner parties.
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« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2012, 12:29:52 PM »
Facebook provides a service that these people want at no charge to them. Quit your bitching or quit your facebooking.



*This response wasn't directed at you specifically CBSN.   Bigsmile
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« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2012, 12:48:12 PM »
This should be in the jokes thread...

Kind of like a cow demanding a percentage of the profit earned by the butcher.
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« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2012, 01:00:01 PM »
Quote from: Kneescrubber on February 07, 2012, 12:29:52 PM

Facebook provides a service that these people want at no charge to them. Quit your bitching or quit your facebooking.



*This response wasn't directed at you specifically CBSN.   Bigsmile


+1.  Such is the "price" of "free" service.  
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« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2012, 01:07:52 PM »
Quote from: Kneescrubber on February 07, 2012, 12:29:52 PM
Quit your bitching or quit your facebooking.

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« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2012, 07:47:11 PM »
Quote from: Kneescrubber on February 07, 2012, 12:29:52 PM

Facebook provides a service that these people want at no charge to them. Quit your bitching or quit your facebooking.



*This response wasn't directed at you specifically CBSN.   Bigsmile


Thanks. I never joined Facebook, in part for these reasons.
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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2012, 07:52:12 PM »
Quote from: SalsaShark on February 07, 2012, 12:48:12 PM

This should be in the jokes thread...

Kind of like a cow demanding a percentage of the profit earned by the butcher.


This.  Facebook users aren't Facebook's customers, they're Facebook's merchandise.
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