The Facebook Effect – David Kirkpatrick

The Facebook Effect – David Kirkpatrick - There’s never been a Web site like Facebook: more than 350 million people have accounts, and if the growth rate continues, by 2013 every Internet user worldwide will have his or her own page. And no one’s had more access to the inner workings of the phenomenon than Kirkpatrick, a senior tech writer at Fortune magazine. Written with the full cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg, the book follows the company from its genesis in a Harvard dorm room through its successes over Friendster and MySpace, the expansion of the user base, and Zuckerberg’s refusal to sell. The author is at his best discussing the social implications of the site, from the changing notions of privacy to why and how people use Facebook—increasingly it’s to come together around a common interest or cause (the eponymous Facebook Effect). Though significantly more informative, thoughtful, and credible than Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires, it may be hamstrung by its late entry; the furor over Facebook has more or less subsided, and potential readers are more likely to be using the site than to be reading about its origins. ------------------------------------- Visit us for this, and loads more: www.audiobookvault.com -------------------------------------

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Blastcat2 (2010-06-30)

Maybe it's not a front, but I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA had a Facebook division.

blackbox_jones (2010-09-23)

A few hours in, the heroic story of Facebook's founding makes me want to projectile vomit. Facebook is the most obnoxious website I've ever encountered, always greedily pushing for more information. The creepy turning point came when Facebook sent me an image from my Twitpic and invited me to "tag my friends" by identifying the photo. "Whose face is this?" It asked me. It was the face of Richard M. Stallman, from a T shirt I'd been wearing.
It's my feeling that virtually everything that Facebook does could be done with a smart, high functioning email client. That would give the user a choice of provider and a lot more control, and prevent this big centralized stockpiling of personal information, that I'm sure many of us are going to regret.
Maybe I'm just antisocial. I don't really see the advantage of being in touch with everyone I've ever known in my entire life so we can have a crappy virtual relationship where we trade imaginary farm animals and buy each other imaginary drink. My god, was everyone I've ever known in my entire life really so lame? It depresses the shit out of me.

zeitgeistmandvdrip (2010-10-20)

ill bet the cia helped fund this startup company

louis213 (2011-06-05)

David Kirkpatrick is my uncle