Speaking of FB, I honestly think I was probably one of the 1st people over the age of 25 with an account - I opened up my page, with much doubt, during the summer of 2007. I am a career college recruiter (so I recruit college juniors for summer internships and college seniors for full-time jobs at my firm) and one summer, my interns convinced me that I just had to join so we could all 'keep in touch' (aka see the crazy antics that happen outside the work place - at least most of the time). Back then, every one of my 20 friends were college kids. I didn't do much except exist via a weak profile page. Pictures of kids under 2 with sippy cups didn't quite compare to pictures of kids over 20 with solo cups. Then FB started to catch on - people realized that you no longer needed a college email address to join. Poof. The rest is history. To date I can rattle off 2 or 3 people who don't have a FB account - the holdouts - (and my parents are not included in this number).
Monday, January 3, 2011
The Facebook Juggernaut
I finally went to see The Social Network yesterday. I really liked it and thought Justin Timberlake did an awesome job (by the way, he became a triple threat out of the blue, right?). Mark Zuckerberg is an interesting personality - at least as portrayed in the media - and obviously brilliant. So I'm sitting hear watching Squawk Box and it looks like Goldman and and Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian firm, are investing approx $500 million in my one of my favorite pastimes. As a result, FB is now valued at $50 BILLION. I would have been happy with the crazy 6 month phenomena Silly Bandz idea but FB would have been pretty fabulous.
Speaking of FB, I honestly think I was probably one of the 1st people over the age of 25 with an account - I opened up my page, with much doubt, during the summer of 2007. I am a career college recruiter (so I recruit college juniors for summer internships and college seniors for full-time jobs at my firm) and one summer, my interns convinced me that I just had to join so we could all 'keep in touch' (aka see the crazy antics that happen outside the work place - at least most of the time). Back then, every one of my 20 friends were college kids. I didn't do much except exist via a weak profile page. Pictures of kids under 2 with sippy cups didn't quite compare to pictures of kids over 20 with solo cups. Then FB started to catch on - people realized that you no longer needed a college email address to join. Poof. The rest is history. To date I can rattle off 2 or 3 people who don't have a FB account - the holdouts - (and my parents are not included in this number).
Speaking of FB, I honestly think I was probably one of the 1st people over the age of 25 with an account - I opened up my page, with much doubt, during the summer of 2007. I am a career college recruiter (so I recruit college juniors for summer internships and college seniors for full-time jobs at my firm) and one summer, my interns convinced me that I just had to join so we could all 'keep in touch' (aka see the crazy antics that happen outside the work place - at least most of the time). Back then, every one of my 20 friends were college kids. I didn't do much except exist via a weak profile page. Pictures of kids under 2 with sippy cups didn't quite compare to pictures of kids over 20 with solo cups. Then FB started to catch on - people realized that you no longer needed a college email address to join. Poof. The rest is history. To date I can rattle off 2 or 3 people who don't have a FB account - the holdouts - (and my parents are not included in this number).
