So I said I
want to blog about Facebook , here’s it.
J)
A little
bit background about Facebook first. Yes, FACEBOOK is known as social media
giant and it is known as the most valuable social networking website for now.
(People have faith in investing in this company) If this 8-year-old company
indeed valued at $100 billion, the high end of its expected valuation range,
Facebook will be worth an astounding 27 times its 2011 revenue of $3.7 billion.
Thanks to the CEO Mark Zuckerberg who is currently holding 57% voting control. ‘Think
like Zuck’ has also become a famous phrase to motivate the company’s workers
and engineers.
Statistically, Facebook is having 2k employees
on campus and 10k expanded campus employee capacity. The campus has 1k square
footage of courtyard BBQ shack, 6 electric-vehicle chargers and 14
expectant-mother parking spaces and 47% employees commuting by company bus,
shuttle, carpool, or bicycle. Well apparently we can see how Facebook take care
of the employees and think in their benefits.
I would
like to share some recent news about Facebook campus, something you would not
know. Last summer Facebook began moving to a new 1-million-square-foot campus
in Menlo Park, Calif., a few miles from its former Palo Alto digs. The
facility, which will eventually straddle a major thoroughfare, is designed to
feel like a small downtown area. In addition to two large cafeterias there will
be little shops for bike repair, frozen yogurt, and other treats. Is not that
cool? xD
So, ever
wonder how Facebook make tons and tons of cash from us? Four main ways :
Advertisements, Facebook gifts, Application performance and Facebook credits.
Trust me, even with only advertisements, Facebook is already a damn good gold
digger from advertisers. In case you do not know how it works, advertisers
first need to bid or offer a very good price to grab a advertise space. They
would not reveal the real price but the value is high enough to earn them lots
of profit. You would not even believe that there are actually quite a number of
people use real money to have unlimited access to games and applications in
Facebook. But still, true story, my wealthy friends do that.
Timeline.
Newest invention for facebook layout. (Still counted newest I guess?) It tells
your stories from the day you are born till the day you die. Easy explanation. Some
people like like. Some people hate hate. The worst thing after all is you are
not able to change back to original profile after you attempted to use
timeline. It did give you 7 days to get used to the new profile before going
public anyway. The horrifying news is everyone’s profile will be automatically
changed to timeline in April. Hooray? Arghhh…
I am not
saying all bad about Facebook. Facebook does benefit me a lot, whether you
believe it or not. First of all, people discover their stalking talent through
facebooking. Without Facebook, people would not even bother to know what you
are doing. ( Well they still do not if you are not famous ) Even you are not
famous, you can pretend to be someone else a.k.a. being a faker to grab others’
attention. This is one thing I found the scariest in Facebook.
People are
also used to ‘liking’ everything. I admit that I like everything I see in my
news feed,no matter interesting or not. I read a psychology article about this
but I could not really recall the content. I think basically it was about this ‘liking’
effect is actually good as it made you having positive perception towards
things when you have gotten the ‘encouragement’. I figure this is the reason
they did not create the ‘dislike’ or ‘hate’ buttons. It will be a true disaster
for infamous people.
Not to
forget Facebook brings people closer. Although research has shown if you log
out from Facebook for about one hour or more and interact with people
physically and realistically, your mood will be boosted and depression level
will be decreased as well. I do not know how far this is true but I surely know
that without Facebook, I cannot get along with people well because I have a
serious problem in remembering things especially names. Thanks to this social
media giant’s frequent reminder, I was able to develop an intimate relationship
with my friends. (Okay I am just exaggerating)
Last but not least, Facebook is still
controlling our lives.
*P.S. Joey
life = Sleep + Facebook J
