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."

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we all tried to do it

[TheRealWheatley]

they're just going over to g+, until they realize that none of their friends are following them and head back to facebook

Who's Zuckerberg's alter ego?

[aNonnyMouseCowered]

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.

Re:Who's Zuckerberg's alter ego?

[binarylarry]

Unfortunately for Microsoft, they lost both Professor X and Cyclops and have had to make due with Matter Eater Lad for the past decade.

Re:And this is surprising?

[pushing-robot]

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.

Re:It won't kill FB

[David Gerard]

Diaspora is the Linux desktop of social networking, except not actually useful or secure.

Re:It won't kill FB

[flappinbooger]

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.

Re:It won't kill FB

[edremy]

Same reason they call porn actors/actresses "talent"