Saturday, July 25, 2009

Gotta Love the Irony

About Battle for Facebook

You have to love all the irony in this story, whatever the truth is about the founding of Facebook.

Quotes to prove that point:

One of the world's most popular networking tool was launched by a brilliant but ostracized nerd sitting alone in a dorm room. (Almost archetypal underdog story?)

They didn't care about money. They cared about code. (All the lawsuits are just about who gets to be the correct answer to the trivia question, “Who invented Facebook?” Yeah.)

Zuckerberg found himself ….just another face in the crowd. (Try searching a common name on Facebook...)

Despite his virtuoso ability at coding, Zuckerberg didn't choose to study computer science. Instead, he majored in psychology. (Smart move, I'd say. Why study what he already knew?)

The guy who first created an online facebook for Harvard couldn't even get a job at Facebook. (Well, his track record wasn't very good.)

The student who had once been threatened with expulsion for posting pirated photos of fellow students had succeeded in altering Harvard's entire culture. (Actually, why haven't we learned after all these years of watching people who are unsuccessful in school becoming wildly successful, inventive, revolutionary in life...)

On his Facebook page, Tyler Winklevoss has written that he is about to settle the lawsuit against Zuckerberg,… (my favorite)

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