If anything Facebook represents, it's the fact that no amount of technical prominence matters in the general market. You can have a product built by a single person in PHP and if it catches itself in the wind it will become a multi-billion dollar entity.<p>No doubt nobody cared about Facebook. It was worthless, it was badly coded, it was a webpage. When that thing reached a valuation of $1m I couldn't believe he didn't sell it. What kind of idiot would offer a million dollars for such a thing. Then it went up from there. Now I think whoever stands to gain from a sale of Facebook is a moron. It's valued at hundreds of billions. Just retire. Make another website on the side in your spare time, take as much time as you like. Do whatever you like. Let whoever dropped that much cash on a website to their devices.<p>At the same time I'm blown away by how many people still use that thing. Regardless of how many scandals after scandals occur.<p>Facebook is one of those things that makes me not understand tech anymore.
This was posted just a couple weeks ago and made it fairly high up the front page. I usually don't complain about reposts, but this seems excessively soon.