Every Rose

Do I think facebook is worth a billion dollars?! No! I don't think that a program written by a Sophmore in college should be anywhere near that.  I suppose that statement is written mostly out of jealousy, but honestly, who doesn't want to be able to retire at the age of 22?  Who doesn't want to go to work when they feel like waking up and be able to skip important meetings to spend time with their girlfreind?  I know I wouldn't mind it.  But the reality is the company in question will most likely disappear in a few years.  An online networking program isn't like other trends.  When the gameboy craze or the beeny-baby craze started they held on by creating new products.  In kindergarden it was very normal to sit down at lunch with your new beeny-baby with the shiny red heart still attached and brag to your friends about "fifi" the new poodle that "loves to shop". Facebook doesn't have a product to keep people looking for something new.  Sitting down at the lunch table saying, "hey, did you check out the new stranger I friended?" just doesn't have the same affect.

At the earlier part of the last year I was a student that fell for it.  My friends all told me about how cool and safe thei facebooks were, so I went and tried it.  I found people who went to my gradeschool, my old country club, a person I had met once at a neighbors christmas party, Basketball team members, and my family anf their college friends.  I had buddies from everywhere and without facebook I wouldnt have talked to these people. It was always fun to sign on to a few pokes, a message or two, and a bunch of birthday reminders, but I don;t think that ten minutes of enjoyment is worth a billion dollars.  I could get that from a candy bar for a whopping 75 cents a day. 

Overall I think that if Mark Zuckerburg wants to get a profit out of this he should sell now to the unintelligent people who would consider spending that kind of money on a "flash in the pan".