Yeah I would have said the same thing before Facebook had 500m users and before people spent more time on FB than on any other place on the internet. Something

Yeah I would have said the same thing before Facebook had 500m users and before people spent more time on FB than on any other place on the internet. Something is going on here, and IMO what is happening is most difficult to understand for bleeding edge techies like the people on this forum. Actually - The Social Network may be mostly fiction but it does capture an idea about facebook that I never realized before - the idea that it's important who you know. Which is the essence of places like Harvard. And the essence of Facebook. Like many others I thought facebook was just a slightly less annoying version of MySpace or friendster, but, as it turns out, it's not, and you have got to give credit to Mark Zuckerberg to understand this from the very start. Apart from all that, facebook is now the new Google in terms of desirability to work there. No wonder, as it's pre-IPO so you stand to make very good money once they do their IPO. Especially as an exec. You can be a me-too rich person like the Googleionnaires who didn't do anything special except get hired by Google before the IPO. I get the appeal.