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Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus
angry tapir writes "It has been troubled times for Facebook since the social network's IPO in May. There has been speculation that Facebook could suffer a talent drain in the wake of the IPO, and now the organization has lost four of its high-level managers the space of a week: Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships; Kate Mitic, platform marketing director; Jonathan Matus, mobile platform marketing manager; and Ben Blumenfeld, design manager, have all resigned from the company."
Do we really care?
What's this FaceBook thing anyway?
Does it compile into native code or P-code?
they're just going over to g+, until they realize that none of their friends are following them and head back to facebook
Fewer managers. You say that like it's a bad thing.
... the outcome is a bunch of soiled butt-papers
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
The most amazing thing about this whole sad saga is that not one single person foresaw Facebooks IPO problems. Not one I tells ya!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Facebook's biggest problem as a young company is Zuckerberg has never had a corporate alter ego. The most prominent of the newer information companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google were started by partners such as Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates/Paul Allen, and Larry Page/Sergey Brin. Like a vanishing twin, one of the partners might eventually leave the company, but in their early histories, none of these companies was dominated by a single alpha-geek but by a Batman and Robin or Laurel and Hardy dynamic duo.
In fact, it's a derailed ship which has been driven into a ditch, is now stuck in a nosedive, and is about to go over a cliff.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
So does being a "C/C#/C++ Programmer" make you some kind of big shot?
By virtue of having three consecutive alphanumeric Cs in your job title, you would outrank everyone else in the company. Unless of course they hired a CCCCEO.
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Diaspora is the Linux desktop of social networking, except not actually useful or secure.
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True - fb will see a big drop in their income if all their users stop showing up
But that will almost never happen - due to the fact of the sheer number of users fb has gathered
Once you achieved a critical mass, like what fb has gotten itself, it'll not be that easy to topple it --- Ask yourself if Microsoft going to close its door tomorrow, that Bill Gates is no longer on the helm, and Steve Ballmer still throwing chairs around
This is true - all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me what they're making for supper tonight and ... later ... tell me how it tasted and how much they love their spouse / kids / pet.
Flappinbooger isn't my real name
Same reason they call porn actors/actresses "talent"
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
I'm curious about how the exodus will happen. I don't see it going to G+, really.
Perhaps people will go out and make real friends.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Raising capitol, lovely spelling mistake that is very revealing of the way things work in big business :}
I suppose the only solution to such intractable corruption is razing capitol.