Comments on: Facebook may yet learn that power does not ensure immortality http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/12/13/facebook-may-yet-learn-that-power-does-not-ensure-immortality/ Where media and technology meet Mon, 20 May 2013 02:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Greenspan2 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/12/13/facebook-may-yet-learn-that-power-does-not-ensure-immortality/comment-page-1/#comment-440773 Greenspan2 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:26:55 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=36040#comment-440773 How quaint the suggestion that Facebook's "power" does not ensure mortality. Facebook is a publicly held company whose mandate is to make money, that good 'ole American and British tradition that has never been restricted by mere mortal concepts of monopoly or fair trade. Power always corrupts and no one ever mistakes it for what it is. As for people who win elections, just who do you think is paying for them and buying them off? God bless America. Thanks for the laugh. How quaint the suggestion that Facebook’s “power” does not ensure mortality. Facebook is a publicly held company whose mandate is to make money, that good ‘ole American and British tradition that has never been restricted by mere mortal concepts of monopoly or fair trade. Power always corrupts and no one ever mistakes it for what it is. As for people who win elections, just who do you think is paying for them and buying them off? God bless America. Thanks for the laugh.

]]> By: AlfredReaud http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/12/13/facebook-may-yet-learn-that-power-does-not-ensure-immortality/comment-page-1/#comment-440673 AlfredReaud Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:01:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=36040#comment-440673 "if you don’t want to be there, you might have to be anyway because everyone you know or want to reach is." I haven't found that the case since I gave up that addiction. With the advent of texting, FB is kind of redundant unless one wants to publicize. Microsoft hubris lead to many good things, including disgust in the mind of an individual named Linus Torvalds. That disgust lead to the Linux family of operating systems. Apple is the other obvious case, but they have their proportional share of hubris now... “if you don’t want to be there, you might have to be anyway because everyone you know or want to reach is.”

I haven’t found that the case since I gave up that addiction. With the advent of texting, FB is kind of redundant unless one wants to publicize.

Microsoft hubris lead to many good things, including disgust in the mind of an individual named Linus Torvalds. That disgust lead to the Linux family of operating systems. Apple is the other obvious case, but they have their proportional share of hubris now…

]]> By: unobtr http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/12/13/facebook-may-yet-learn-that-power-does-not-ensure-immortality/comment-page-1/#comment-440574 unobtr Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:49:08 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=36040#comment-440574 The graveyard is littered with the tombstone's of important men (read websites), who could not be spared, but were, in the end! TSO- Beethoven's Last Night Facebook's time is passing. Five years from it will no longer be relevant. The graveyard is littered with the tombstone’s of important men (read websites), who could not be spared, but were, in the end!

TSO- Beethoven’s Last Night

Facebook’s time is passing. Five years from it will no longer be relevant.

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