Does anyone think this will have a negative impact on Facebook's reputation or slow the rampant user growth?
I'm inclined to believe this is going to have a huge impact on the masses and their perception of Facebook.
I'm inclined to believe this is going to have a huge impact on the masses and their perception of Facebook.
I remember listening to an interview with Michael Douglas one night(I have insomnia), where he remarked that people actually came up to him and said that they wanted to be Gordon Gekko. This will in fact add to Zuckerberg's appeal and people will use Facebook to tell other people on Facebook how cool the guy who made Facebook actually is.
Other than them the others simply won't care and will go right back to playing one of those Zynga games.
The only thing that will kill Facebook is another fad, which gets embraced by the "cool" brigade.
Economics overrides everything else.
You really need to know bottomless despair to see where he came from. Think of this you are a teenager with no contact with your bio parents, struggling to make sense of who you are, and you cannot get rid of the nagging feeling that you have no future and then you hit the big time. No The Big Time.
Would that not go to your head and exaggerate your flaws? He is just human being with limited resources to cope with what life thrust upon him. I don't worship him anymore, but I won't judge him either.
There is a quote from the studio somewhere talking about it. He basically says that any advertisements that are about Facebook the company have to be approved by Facebook. He said once the studio found that out they didn't even bother submitting advertisements.