Inside the Facebook Prom - Valleywag Comments

Inside the Facebook Prom

random_play — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:29:49 PDT

@raincoaster: Way to call the tune!
Ooh, and it makes me wonder...

random_play

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Fidel on the Roof — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:57:01 PDT

A prom? That's nice. Fitting too...

They'll collapse like a cheap lawn chair.

Fidel on the Roof

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MrMedia — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:31:34 PDT

parties like this are a great way to keep its employees minds off the fact that in 12 months the company will either

1. be broke
2. be owned 99% by VC's

MrMedia

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jim_rock — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:01:28 PDT

Ahh bubble life.
Living in inflated extravagance.

[jimrock.tumblr.com]

jim_rock

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BobDope — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:10:07 PDT

I want to see a dog ride a unicycle.

BobDope

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jackparsons — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:58:53 PDT

@westphalia: Yes, I've been to a corporate event before. I've also seen a dog ride a unicycle in the circus. Your point being?

Facebook has now apparently received $500 million in venture capital. There are many who do not believe it can be sold for that much now, and that the asking price dwindles by the day as marketers figure out what we already know:

a) Advertising on social networking sites sucks

b) At the end of the day, the only way to make money on them is advertising.

I call throwing cash at that a horrible piece of shit idea, like investing in a horse doctor school six months after the Model T rolled off the assembly line.

A company with a non-existent business model other than "get bought by someone with more money than we owe to investors" setting still more money on fire on bullshit events like this = awesome. These people should be having their office Xmas party catered by Arby's, not holding a make-believe prom for addled hipsters and incompetent engineers.

Do you have any other questions, pum'kin?

jackparsons

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raincoaster — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:55:08 PDT

I'm bored. Thus:

There's a VC who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Facebook
And when she gets there she knows if the doors are closed
With a Tweet she can get what she came for

Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to Facebook

There's a prom going on but she'll be up by dawn
And you know she'll run three miles farther
In a cube there's some dude who's got the attitude
Sometimes all our events are misgiven

Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to Facebook

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen there's an exit strategy
And then all of my Friends will de-Friend me

raincoaster

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NotJulia — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:54:26 PDT

dont hate just cuz you cant go.

even Julia didn't go this time. but I'm notJulia.

NotJulia

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BartKela — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:00:50 PDT

@westphalia: Yes, some of us have and these photos are pathetic.

This looks more like bible study group, not a party. Nobody is having any fun.

The most hilarious thing about all of this? The photos are watermarked "Valleywag.com." These shots are worth stealing?!?

Ahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

BartKela

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ampersand — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:37:21 PDT

Why are these pictures so awful? Did they ban photography?

Say what you will about Yahoo, at least they let us snap photos at their parties.

ampersand

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westphalia — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:03:54 PDT

Has no one here gone to a corporate sponsored event before?

westphalia

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CyndyA — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:54:43 PDT

@Ted Dziuba: No fair. I've been wanting to write that book for a year now.

Also, isn't this the same company that is borrowing another $100 mil for more SERVERS? Just checking.

CyndyA

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BobDope — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:54:05 PDT

@jackparsons: I dunno, when the 'fuckedcompany' book came out, much as I hated all the people in it, it was still unreadable....

BobDope

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Ted Dziuba — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:49:52 PDT

@jackparsons: I volunteer myself to write that. You hear me, publishers?

Ted Dziuba

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jackparsons — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:57:38 PDT

@Bornean: I can't wait for the next series of Web 2.0 books -- you know, the ones that are published after the bubble bursts -- that laughs up its sleeve at a company with a multibillion dollar valuation despite not making a dime throwing a prom. This is '80s excess at its finest -- Less Than Zero + with a little touch of WebVan.com and Glengarry Glen Ross hucksterism thrown in for flava.

jackparsons

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michaellamb — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:46:15 PDT

seriously? Are they all 12? oh wait.....

michaellamb

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phil_collins — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:35:28 PDT

that's depressing

phil_collins

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BartKela — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:24:44 PDT

Apparently, all the decent venues were booked. The Metreon is a wasteland.

BartKela

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BobDope — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:07:59 PDT

I don't trust Zuck, he has no beard. How can you trust a guy like that?

BobDope

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cyc — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:54:17 PDT

But unlike the average high schooler, these kids didn't get laid after prom

cyc

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Bornean — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:54:05 PDT

A classy get together for the privileged few. Funded purely by hard-earned venture capital no less.

Enjoy your cake boys, you'll be in trailers soon!

Bornean