In Mark Zuckerberg’s dream Sean Parker whispered “A million users a day isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? A billion users a day. And that’s where you’re headed, even if you take on bad advice, orchestrate shady psychological experiments, and sustain a lengthy campaign of untrustworthy stunts and specious sharing of your users’ private data.” Mission accomplished? Perhaps. Yesterday Mr. Zuckerberg (himself with only three million views on the competing Google+) announced the passing of a company milestone:…one billion people used Facebook in a single day. On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family. When we talk about our financials, we use average numbers, but this is different. This was the first time we reached this milestone…So this carefully cooked up wording is ripe for inspection, if people are purposefully deceived into believing that one billion people are currently actually logging onto Facebook every day (their original standard for usage), to share with (or spy on) their family and friends and other interests. They have always presented numbers in the financial statements reflecting daily users that were rising to approach about one billion.
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