Hey, the thing started off as a ‘stock book’ on women in Boston colleges and universities [the ‘Face’ referring to their pictures] that barely evolved. It certainly isn’t related to The Well, more like Myspace out of Geocities. 😉

I’m just not a joiner unless it is required for business purposes.

I’ve thus far avoided Facebook. I don’t see how it can enhance my professional standing in my field (I do have a LinkedIn account in my professional capacity), and I have better ways of communicating with friends and family.

It’s a good thing I’m not the tin-foil type or I might wonder why the NASDAQ system went down when the volume wasn’t really that unusual, even with an IPO. It’s not as if they haven’t had a lot of them over the years. I mean, no one would imagine an insider doing something to stall having to pay $38/share to support the price when things started down.

They should have opened at $10 which would have given people more entry at the bottom and Bernoulli’s utility would come in, as the ”utility’ would be greatly enhanced, i.e. there would be more suckers to fleece and they wouldn’t think to add a sell price on their order. Just another way to cheat the ‘little people’.

Facebook looks like it peaked last year, so, unless it can become the thing to use in Asia, it will fade away in a few years like so many others.

– Badtux the Prognosticating Penguin