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Facebook expects to increase its staff by as much as 50 per cent this year by tapping into the "surplus" of out-of-work engineers caused by the Meltdown. The social networking website's chief executive Mark Zuckerburg said in an interview with Bloomberg that while most tech firms are shedding workers to make do, Facebook's …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    The new reich

    Facebook is inadvertently becoming a sort of web government, by that, I believe that their modus operandi is akin to all those humans plugged in their matrix and being drained for the robots batteries. Has Facebook really brought that much innovation to our lives or are we more easily seduced now by the superfluous bells and whistles that the application offers? Perhaps not draining our power but it is coercing us into surrendering our models of thinking through our visible selection of friends, online and offline habits and not to mention all the information which we willingly provide through our profile and various questionnaires.

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  2. eJ2095

    nah

    Just that humans are nosey and people like to talk about the selves.

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  3. Zid

    Hiring?

    Now, I can't say my job involves solving world hunger but how hard would it be to get out of bed in the morning knowing that you're an enabler for the kind of tripe that occurs on facebook.

    Couldn't pay me enough to work for them.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Well done sir.

    A very admirable first comment on a facebook story. I would of normally had to wait until the 4th comment for a decent rant.

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  5. adobob

    facebook grammer

    that's "would have", not "would of". facebook is clearly dragging the world down to a lowest common denominator of literacy.

    ... oh well. wtf lol, time fur me to go an pwn some noobs, enable some tripe, an solve world hungr on facebook !

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  6. Steve Evans

    Not a moment too soon...

    Given the number of times I have seen the facebook error box appear in the last couple of days they need some more staff!

    If they continue with this kind of stability I might actually have to do some bl**dy work!

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  7. Zid

    Reg comment grammar

    It's grammar not "grammer" and it's punctuation used appropriately rather than despondently.

    Clearly... you get the point, adobob.

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  8. Richard 102
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    @adobob

    "facebook is clearly dragging the world down to a lowest common denominator of literacy"

    Shome mishtake, shurely? Television and government education programs seem to have done that well long before facebook came around.

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