As of Friday, Mark Zuckerberg is officially in a relationship with everyone. Facebook’s IPO became available Thursday with shares now being traded for about $43 a piece. And, of course, the occasion was marked with a status update by the founder himself.
MySpace got social networking started for most, until Facebook came along and rendered it pointless. Facebook is the social network everyone and their grandmother is using now. But if and when the fascination with Facebook dies down, will the popularity of social network sites just die down with it, or will there be another to step in and take its place?
U2 generated some pretty impressive coin from their massive 360 Tour, performing 110 shows and reportedly grossing over $736 million from June 2009 through July 2011. Bono’s personal net worth is about to get even bigger. The sunglasses-sporting singer made a huge investment in Facebook stock three years ago, and after shares of the social media site go public, Bono is expected to become the richest rocker in the world.
Just a few years ago, Facebook became a simple way for teenagers and old classmates to keep up with their friends while pretending to work. Now, it’s a billion dollar company with its own publicly traded stock.
The announcement offered its own share of shocked faces and flabbergasted statements. Here are some things that were probably said during Facebook’s IPO announcement.
We know he’s worth a whole lot of money ($17.5 billion to be exact). We know he is the father of Facebook, and refuses to sell it because he wants to keep raising it. We know he went to Harvard, but never finished. We know there is a set of twins who wish they had never met him. And, we know that today, May 14th, is his 28th birthday. But, there has to be more to know about Mark Zuckerberg.
My wife Brenda came across a new way to clear out our “yard sale” pile in the garage, and do a little shopping for herself, without leaving the house. Abilenee Swap Meet is the name, but I call it Brenda’s new addiction.
The best and worst aspect of email and instant messaging is that they make it easy to blow people off and give you at least a glimmer of hope that your recipient hasn’t seen your unreturned messages. Now Facebook wants to zap all the uncertainty away, updating the Facebook Messenger app so message-senders will be able to tell that recipients have seen messages.
A large number of users haven’t tried to access their privacy settings since they signed up with Facebook.
A new report from Consumer Reports found that 13 million users have failed to do just that, despite Facebook’s attempts to update and strengthen their privacy system and settings.
Mark Zuckerberg wants to use Facebook to help those languishing at the tail end of organ donation lists.
So, starting today, the close to 200 million Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom will have the option to add that they are organ donors on their Facebook timeline.
It’s becoming more and more prevalent for employers and colleges to ask for and even demand your personal passwords for social networks, like Facebook and Twitter. Some employers will actually make you log into your account so they can scan your posts and photos before hiring you. College
Recently we showed you a bunch of beauties on Instagram. Then, of course, Facebook bought the photo service for $1 billion. Coincidence? French dude Julien GLT had the ingenious idea of plucking pics of sweater puppies from I
