Hasta La Gadget!

If one was to ask what happened on December 7, 2010 and 2011, most folks
would reference the 69th & 70th-year anniversaries of Pearl Harbor.
Few people would know or care that New York’s Off-Track Betting Office
doors were shuttered that first year, depriving thousands of workers
from earned health benefits. And on its anniversary date the following
year, it marked the day that OTB worker Patti McCole entered the
hospital for brain cancer.

Being left behind on the mobile landscape has motivated countless
bloggers and techie prognosticators to cyberventilate as to FB’s future.
Based on an 11th hour stock devaluation by the company themselves (see
previous post, "Facebook’s IPO Morality Tale…"),
coupled with the claim the company can’t survive in the public sphere
relying solely on ad revenues, Zuck has ridden a roller-coaster of
criticism in one week’s time that has cast yet another shadow over the
world’s largest social network.

Facebook’s reversal of fortunes in such a short span of time has played
out almost like a modern-day morality tale.  The fall-out of the social
network post-IPO, after such an enthusiastic build-up was telling. While it lined the
pockets of some (namely investment bankers), it deprived the 99
Percenters (or Dumb F*cks
as Zuckerberg so adroitly labeled them back in 2004) full-disclosure,
resulting in a subsequent short-fall on their FB investment.