Mark Zuckerberg had it all.

Most successful social media company in the world.

Umpteen-billionaire in his 20s.

Beautiful girlfriend.

And presumably a Philippe Starck Lemon Squeezer.

And then he got the Hippy, Hippy Shake, and innoculated himself with Social Management-Speak:

Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society. Relationships are how we discover new ideas, understand our world and ultimately derive long-term happiness.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

People sharing more — even if just with their close friends or families — creates a more open culture and leads to a better understanding of the lives and perspectives of others. We believe that this creates a greater number of stronger relationships between people, and that it helps people get exposed to a greater number of diverse perspectives.

By helping people form these connections, we hope to rewire the way people spread and consume information. We think the world’s information infrastructure should resemble the social graph — a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather than the monolithic, top-down structure that has existed to date. We also believe that giving people control over what they share is a fundamental principle of this rewiring.

….

We believe building tools to help people share can bring a more honest and transparent dialogue around government that could lead to more direct empowerment of people, more accountability for officials and better solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time.

By giving people the power to share, we are starting to see people make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible. These voices will increase in number and volume. They cannot be ignored. Over time, we expect governments will become more responsive to issues and concerns raised directly by all their people rather than through intermediaries controlled by a select few.

Through this process, we believe that leaders will emerge across all countries who are pro-internet and fight for the rights of their people, including the right to share what they want and the right to access all information that people want to share with them.

Ugh.

I would print some more, but there’s 2200 words of the damned thing.

A punt on which to put your pension?

Cartoon Credit: Gaping Void, 2007.

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JimS
February 2, 2012 at 10:26

…yeah, and you get to cyber snoop on all your mates, mates’, mates too!

(But to what purpose?)

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Clarissa
February 2, 2012 at 11:52

Facebook is an advertising platform, nothing more, and I’m even less likely to buy shares in it than I was lastminute.com – and a combination of apathy and no money meant I didn’t bother with that.

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Ian R Thorpe
February 2, 2012 at 20:20

Zuckerberg is typical of those who have made illusory $$$billions out of the internet. A sociopathic nerd. Think of him in terms of the rest, none of them have the slightest awareness off the nature of human nature and they all assume everybody is, or wants to be as screwed up and isolated from reality as they are.

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