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  • Facebook’s IPO: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

    Today marks a new low in Facebook’s share value as the initial lock-up for employees ended and some key people left the company. This has prompted a flurry of speculation about whether Facebook is doomed or not. I’m not going to add my arrow to said flurry, but I’d like to take a step back…

  • The Three Faces of Facebook

    Reading Time: ~5 minutes I’ve been using Facebook since 2006. I remember eagerly awaiting my college email address so I could make an account, because I had seen a sample account before and it looked like a set dinner table, with all of the silverware and plates and tablecloth carefully laid out. At the time,…

  • The Too-True Facebook Conspiracy

    Reading Time: ~3 minutes Let’s pretend it’s a Saturday night and, theoretically, you’re drinking. Then pretend that you wake up the next morning with only a somewhat coherent memory of the night before. You do detective work for the day, finding out what exactly you did or said and (hopefully) learn some lesson pertaining to…