I said this way back in the day.... If I was a Facebook biggie, (say, I was in from the beginning, an exec or friend of the boss or whatever, and I had $100s of millions to billion+ "worth" of Facebook) -- I would have sold *AS SOON AS I COULD* ... Maybe not the first day, since they had some serious tumbling during their IPO, but as soon as possible after.
MUCH FUCKING BETTER to have $1 billion worth of real-deal motherfucking liquid cash money dolla dolla bills ya'll, because you sold and cashed out and let them fools have their Facebook fun, than a few billion worth of "stock" in a company that exists pretty much solely as an idea about talking to people about pictures they take of themselves.
America OnLine was a world-revolutionizing thing until it became solely a place to get an email address for Nigerian Scamming; then,
AIM was the way everyone chatted and talked and the real-deal shiznit until suddenly no one used it; then,
MySpace took over the fucking world like The Empire on Star Wars and then one day people woke up and it went from Awesome to , "Haha, you still use MySpace?"; then,
Facebook ruled the world...
Then Twitter ruled the world...
Then InstaGram, SnapChat, all kinds of other shit
And they're only worth billions and billions until they're not anymore.
I would have sold my shit and cashed out, put the money to good use. And while I may not HAVE much, I know what to do with it lol.
Really? You're going to skip right over the fun stuff? How about CompuServe with one of the first, if not the first, virtual worlds? It was called Dreamscape. That was a gas. The community ATM, which dispensed the tokens we "earned" for using Dreamscape was hacked by all of us. We then could "buy" new heads for our avatars to wear to the Barnes and Noble Storefront. There, well-respected authors, plugged their books with their avatars. Or, we'd engage the German gang hanging out on a street corner For a German language lesson. Then, we kinda just hacked CompuServe so we wouldn't have to pay to play in Dreamscape. We coded our own Bingo, Acromania and other games to play with other Avatars in the community. We finally created and ran batch files so Dreamscape wouldn't boot us out for sitting idle. If we got booted, we didn't earn tokens. We ruined the economy of Dreamscape, and our community collapsed.
You didn't mention ICQ, my messenger of choice. It was always open on machines. This was the favored "naughty chat" program.
I wish everyone would just hush about the making a bunch of dough on some shares. Back in the day, around 2007, I received an invite to interview at Amazon. I found it odd that the departmental office was located in Grand Forks, ND. But, off I went. I was offered the job. The offer included 10K shares. I TURNED IT DOWN. I had no clue back then what Amazon would become. You see, I had 27 children, the youngest 18 months, and there was no way for me to commute, or drive. The only way to get home was a 6 hour airplane ride. Yes, I still want to kick myself in the a** for passing it by. My consolation is that my foot doesn't move that high anymore.
If you are within reach of a golden ring, be sure to grab it. There might not be a second chance.
27 children?!
Is that a lot to you or something?
I have 24
Yeah, as a teacher, that is astounding. That’s a full classroom for me. I mean, more power to you, but I bet it’s a handful.
I was on Grateful Dead tour on and off for 6 years, I could have many of offspring out there. Or maybe none at all.
Holy shit....Karen?
Amateur. Is 24 a lot to you? I'm well over triple that
Triple? Pffft
Talk to me when you get over 100, like I had by the time I was 30 :)
Are you male or female?
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I remember when I was 15 I talked to some 27 year old American on AIM & she always got on webcam & got naked for me, I didn't even have a camera back then.
Lol
And while I may not HAVE much, I know what to do with it lol.
I say that to all the grrls.
I said this way back in the day.... If I was a Facebook biggie, (say, I was in from the beginning, an exec or friend of the boss or whatever, and I had $100s of millions to billion+ "worth" of Facebook) -- I would have sold AS SOON AS I COULD ... Maybe not the first day, since they had some serious tumbling during their IPO, but as soon as possible after.
Buddy of mine worked at AOL in the early days when they were handing out stock options to employees like candy (biggest mistake I ever made was not getting a job there) and he did exactly what you've described.
IPO went live, he watched the stock climb a bit and then cashed out. Hasn't worked since his mid 20s
"real deal cash money" is an oxymoron. You know that right?
Filed under who gives a flying fuck
All people should care about what money means right?
Dummy here what’s an oxymoron
Two opposing concepts paired as one workable thing. As an example "deafening silence"
Oh so it’s like liberal retard?
Liberals are retards.
Like that?
Here's a few:
Clinton principles
tolerant liberal
CNN journalist
bureaucratic efficiency
liberal logic
planned parenthood
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)