Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets 326
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from the trolls-are-everywhere dept.
Cyrus writes "According to a Bloomberg scoop, a New York man claiming to own a majority of Facebook has gotten a signed court order to block Facebook from transferring assets."
Whats next???? (Score:5, Insightful)
given the "issues" Z-man has, one may wonder how many of these skeletons are in his closet? A bent sapling never grows straight.
Re:Contracts (Score:4, Insightful)
So I am guessing you were also a CS major?
Not going to matter (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:5, Insightful)
yes, there is no bigger pile of crap then a social media site that has made it easy for me to get in touch with family and friends, stay up to date in their lives.
Re:Not going to matter (Score:5, Insightful)
Isn't Zuckerberg's money all on paper? And not the green, cash-y kind? My point is, if there is an injunction against transfer of assets, then can he sell his stock to get cash? Standard IANAL and all that, but this could prove to be more than just a passing amusement.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:3, Insightful)
I like that pile of crap. It allowed me to relocate and connect with old high school and college classmates. I also learned about the reunion through facebook
Re:Not going to matter (Score:2, Insightful)
Isn't Zuckerberg's money all on paper? And not the green, cash-y kind? My point is, if there is an injunction against transfer of assets, then can he sell his stock to get cash? Standard IANAL and all that, but this could prove to be more than just a passing amusement.
Unless expressly stated otherwise we already assume you're not a lawyer. ;)
Careful... (Score:5, Insightful)
No matter how big an jerk you may think Zuckerberg is, and no matter how bad you may think Facebook is, it is practically always possible to get worse.
Not knowing anything that I didn't learn in the last 5 minutes, upon seeing this article, this Ceglia guy certainly has a running start on both. The enemy of your enemy may not be your friend - just a different enemy.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:2, Insightful)
I have family on different continents and never saw the need of using Facebook to connect with them or stay in touch. Email/phone/IM is way better. As for friends/family around me, I usually get together with them quite a few times each year, again, phone/email/IM is there too. I don't see the need for Facebook to connect with people I care about. For people I don't care about, even when they added me on Facebook I simply put them in a limited user profile group and they didn't see jack. I guess I am too anti-social to understand why people use Facebook, I did use it a bit though, but realized that the stuff I wanted to communicate with them, I already did with IMs, emails or simple phone calls, or better in person. The way I see it, if I really care about a person, I will make sure to stay in touch and no need to re-connect.
A personal IM, email or phone call IMO is way better to communicate with friends/family than posting some crap on Facebook your friends can see, it's more personal, private and puts emphasis on that person to tell this person: you are important to me. Facebook removes this facet of personal communication.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:4, Insightful)
stay up to date in their lives.
Your brother has found a pig in Generic Farmville Clone. Do you want to help him feed it? Click here.
Yes, your honor, it *is* on a bar napkin... (Score:3, Insightful)
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O-L-D (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:5, Insightful)
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I guess a lot of people who want this to happen (I am one of them) does so because of Zuckerberg rather than Facebook. Humans are naturally drawn towards justice and fairness, and see Zuckerberg as a person who denigrates his customers, abuses their privacy and takes advantage of their personal data - and always, ALWAYS pushes the boundaries of what Facebook is allowe3d to do and only retreats after a big community backlash. And so, people feel Zuckerberg does not deserve the fortune he has.
Facebook could, otherwise, be a useful and safe tool, in the hands of an ethical leadership.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe you shouldn't use Facebook then, and let the millions of other people who actually do enjoy using it, use it.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:3, Insightful)
More annoying to me (and more relevant to Slashdot) are sites that support Facebook Connect, but not OpenID.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:2, Insightful)
I was kidding. But one can only hope something shuts down that huge pile of crap.
Says the person with a twitter signature?
Re:Yes, your honor, it *is* on a bar napkin... (Score:1, Insightful)
Reminds me of an episode of "Love American Style" I saw looooooong ago. The rich old guy on the deserted island wrote the check on the young woman's abdomen in berry juice.
Of course I'm posting as AC - you don't think I'd admit on Slashdot to ever having watched "Love American Style" do you?
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Here is the photostat of the contract (Score:5, Insightful)
I predict a novel legal theory being invented that will protect the big corporation from a seemingly straightforward contract.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:3, Insightful)
So block the app. It's not that hard. My friends all play those inane games, and I never see a peep of them. Only when a new one comes along do I see it, and that's very, very rare. 10 minutes of work too much for you to keep in touch with your family?
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:4, Insightful)
8-bit über alles! (Score:5, Insightful)
since the beginning of time.
Re:That Must Be One Entertaining Contract (Score:1, Insightful)
I love how they mention how it's 2 pages, as if that made it worthless or something. As if you needed more proof of how detached from reality legal-ese has become.
Re:Here is the photostat of the contract (Score:3, Insightful)
I predict that thefacebook and facebook will be found to be separable entities, and that ceglia gets 84% of thefacebook.
Re:Not Facebook! (Score:3, Insightful)
In this case the Slashdot conventional wisdom appears to be "Nobody needs Facebook." But, as is so often pointed out here, Slashdotters are not a representative cross-section of personallity types. Reference the frequent comments about women/dating/sex. Facebook addresses social interaction that is mostly incomprehensible to this group. On the other hand, if it weren't for the kinds of people who hang out here there would be no Facebook. Let's not fall into the "what is right for us is right for everyone" hole.