As Mark Zuckerberg faces a second day of “grilling” from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the verdict is already out: the uncharacteristically suit-clad tech mogul held his ground successfully.
Unsurprisingly, he had a leg up on his questioners, who struggled with the technical details.
“It was, to be blunt, like watching your grandfather try to understand how they got the internet onto your new Macbook Pro,” Chris Cilliza wrote for CNN. “Or asking Ted Williams about whether you put your right hand or left hand on top when you swing a bat.”
“Here’s one example — via an exchange between Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Zuckerberg:
“Hatch: ‘How do you sustain a business model in which users don’t pay for your service?’
“Zuckerberg: ‘Senator, we run ads.’
Awk-ward.”
Facebook, as Shira Ovide said at Bloomberg, survived unscathed, but that doesn’t bode well for its users:
“The best news for Facebook Inc. the company was that Zuckerberg ably deflected any challenges to the beating heart of its economic model: its hungry data collection and the fine-tuned targeted advertising based on that data. Zuckerberg’s success is a win for anyone primarily concerned with the company’s market value. But it’s a loss for the rest of us.”
Some compared Zuckerberg’s performance in the hearing Tuesday to the emotionally incompetent Data from Star Trek the Next Generation:
In related news, Facebook is apparently losing ground to Google, as users spend more time on YouTube.
Google owned services, including YouTube and Waze, accounted for more than 27% of total time spent on digital media in January, up 3%, year over year, Bloomberg reports, citing data from Pivotal Research. Facebook’s share of time slipped 2% to 16.3%.
absolutely True????
Mr bondoc widely smiled! ????
Facebook still the best to communicate with our Families back home and friends too. I thank facebook for giving us an easy way to connect with our loved ones and friends around the globe. Keep it up Mr. Mark Zuckerberg!
The moment a personal pic is posted, Facebook offers the pic without the consent of the concerned individual to totally random people as friend suggestions which is proving to be very dangerous especially to women whose accounts are getting hacked and they are being stalked and threatened in real life.
I mean your personal information, it would be your own responsibilty… just correcting may typographic error, thanks
Face book is good app it could easily give what it’s customers needed.
FACEBOOK, is one of those sources of communication for free specially for Us OFWs .Its a big help to be able to connect with our loved ones family and friends… whatever personally information you put on FB it would your own responsibility, its your choice if you would be able to give your true or false info about yourself…
Facebook is the easiest app we use to communicate in our family and relatives especially who work abroad …. and also facebook is a friendly apps to all people but it depends how you use it….
Facebook strenghten democracy in the Philippines. Practically provide communication access to millions of Filipinos working around the to their families, friends, relatives and neighbors. Facebook is a good friend to Filipinos.
Mr. Spock.