When you are small, growing and humble and are under the radar, it is easy to generate nice happy press. But when money is involved and people are enriched greatly and the model becomes one where ad sales to your community drive the business model to justify the valuation, you start to see press like this so here it comes. The honeymoon is now over for Facebook.
When you are small, growing and humble and are under the radar, it is easy to generate nice happy press. But when money is involved and people are enriched greatly and the model becomes one where ad sales to your community drive the business model to justify the valuation, you start to see press like this so here it comes. The honeymoon is now over for Facebook. I expect to see lots of dueling press reports and bloggers and regulators going after Facebook now that big money is at stake just like what happened to YouTube after the acquisition by Google. Money changes everything.