I recently came upon Accidental Billionaires at Book Warehouse and decided to give it a go reading it. It turns out to be a short and easy read; I managed to finish within a couple hours. Now, one might wonder why I'm reading a non-fiction book about billionaires...it's not like I'll likely become a billionaire by accident myself...but the book triggered my interest because it's about the making of Facebook and its original purpose, current success, consequences of its success, etc.
It's intriguing but a bit disgusting how such a successful social network originated from the purpose of giving guys more chances to know girls and eventually getting laid in university. Of course, for many of us, it's strictly to check out lives of people you know any time any where...and possibly even without them knowing. It's fun to be curious about people you know and to learn information about them through what they post without actually having to talk to them...I mean...really who has the time to communicate 1 to 1 when posting a message on the wall can help you reach all 500 something of your "friends." Nonetheless, the success of Facebook bringing together so many friends led to the failure of the friendship that once existed between the founders...ironic isn't it? The power, and perhaps consequence, of money.
Each time I log into Facecrack now (originally known as FaceMash), I can't help but remember the book and the partial (because only 1 out of the 2 original founders contributed information to the making of the book) truth behind the site's success.
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