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Maybe its just more efficient to build facebook apps to convert people than ride around on a bicycle and knocking on doors. Lazy evangelism.

• SwellJoe 18y ago
  Two central tenets of Mormonism are missionary work and ancestor...umm...I don't want to say worship, but it's the only thing that comes to mind to sufficiently cover the dedication the Mormon Church instills in its membership. Those two things actually do seem pretty consonant with having control of a popular social network like Facebook, and if the church really is bringing down five billion a year, buying Facebook is not an outlandish idea at all. Internally, Facebook stock is being traded at about a $4 billion valuation...so an $8 billion offer, for example, would be practically impossible to turn down if we assume that the parties making the decision are at least a little interested in money. Zuck may be a good Jewish boy, but being a billionaire at twenty-five seems a hard offer to turn down, even if it means handing over the reins of your baby to a rather odd cult. Unless, of course, Zuckerberg really does believe Facebook, and the "social graph", is as important as Google in the future of the Internet, in which case, the $15 billion valuation numbers indicated by the MS investment a couple years back would be lowball, and no offer the LDS could make would be sufficient. (I'm not on that bandwagon...but I know there are folks who are, and maybe Zuckerberg is one of them.)