Just a gut feeling. I've... we've known something like this was coming for a long time. Remember, MarkZ is a bit of an egomaniac. Have you seen what happens to egomaniacs when their world starts to crumble around them? Not to get overly dramatic, but you know the Russians gave him hundreds of millions of dollars. That's a lot of money.

You know, in startup land, we tend to think the world works differently than the world works. Mark's investors are probably putting a huge amount of pressure on him right now and the activity on the web over the past few weeks has sent FB users leaving in droves.

HN used to be full of FB fans, API fans, technical fans look how that has turned in just a couple weeks...

If you were facebook and you saw your subscriber base growing and growing, then plateau, then start to decline rapidly -- uncontrollably, what would you do? What would you do if you knew that your worth was dropping just like that.

Imagine having millions of dollars in the stock market today when this mess happened. You'd be sick right now. That money won't come back. Facebook's users won't come back and Mark's chances of keeping his paper billions is evaporating right before his eyes...

I can see it. I can feel it. The writing is on the proverbial facebook wall.