Here’s your scenario: You’re the CEO of an immensely popular social network with 175 million registered users, or just shy of the population of Brazil. Your users are passionate and tend to protest over the slightest changes. Just recently they got really mad about a terms of service change—so mad it was on the evening news and you had to change them back.
A Million Facebookers Vote On New Layout
Yesterday, I wrote about apparent dissatisfaction with Facebook’s change in layout. A Facebook app designed to take a vote on the matter is proving to be popular, and so far, it’s not looking good for the redesign.
Facebookers Look To Impeach Obama
On most radars, Facebook wasn’t going to make the political news this week. But it is, and twice. We’ll start with the wingnut, bat-guano crazy and move on to the counterintuitive defense of a public figure by a social network executive. Nothing like some anticlimactic structure to start your weekend, eh? But there’s surely enough in the beginning to last you: Impeach Obama groups are already appearing on Facebook. Sigh. Two things:
Facebookers Go After Cat Killers
Remember Barabbas? That’s why we don’t let the mob make judicial decisions anymore. Awful things tend to happen. These days, rather than a formal public gathering, a social network is all that’s really needed to stir up the masses.
200 Million Facebookers? Wishful Thinking
For the past year, the projected numbers for Facebook have been unbelievable. Literally. Unbelievable. Before, it was the CEO’s inflated opinion of monetary worth (at some point I heard $8 billion kicked around), which understandably made early MySpace investor heads explode.