We were at the Gayana Eco Resort when the subject took a turn to "Facebook". NST's Joniston proposed a toast to Facebook. And we took a picture, said, it's for Facebook!Are you in Facebook? One news item for your Monday reading -
'I dropped Facebook because of too many friends': Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.
Gates, the billionaire computer geek-turned-philanthropist who was honoured Saturday by India for his charity work, told an audience in New Delhi he had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to be my friends".
Gates, who remains Microsoft chairman, said he had trouble figuring out whether he "knew this person, did I not know this person".
"It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up," Gates told the business forum.
Gates was in the Indian capital to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, awarded by the government for his work for the charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The foundation, built by his massive fortune, has committed nearly one billion dollars to health and development projects in India, targeting especially AIDS and polio.
Gates also confided to the audience that he was "not that big at text messaging" and that "I'm not a 24-hour-a-day tech person".
"I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer," he said.
Gates, who sought to drive a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home, said the information technology revolution had been "hugely beneficial" but added: "All these tools of tech waste our time if we're not careful."
12 comments:
that's one of the price to pay for being rich, famous & being a philanthropist, although not necessarily in that order!
Been there for dinner, very nice place! My daughter said she would want to go and stay there...but we had not been to KK since...
doc,
Well, they can afford to pay the price! (pun meant)
suituapui,
It's RM1700 per night! Chris (my son) said "crazy" when I told him on the phone last night!
I was told it's going to increase the rate further.
The Operations Manager of Gayana told me the occupancy rate is always over 90 percent. Who stay there? Tourists from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore and some from Europe.
Still want to stay at that resort?
RM1.7k per night?? WOW!! CRazy!!! hahaha.. Yan, I don't think I will pay that kind of money for a night's stay at a resort, unless I strike lottery. Even though it's really gorgeous, judging by the photographs you've taken. So I guess I'll just have to make do with admiring. Sigh!
I have chanced upon many people's facebook profile, stating that they have a few hundreds, and some, thousands of friends.. and I really wonder, why I only have 50+ friends in my friends' list (???) Am I so unpopular?
JoMel,
So, the young ones also said crazy! I think even if you strike lottery, you won't like to spend the money like that! I wonder how much per head for an afternoon there plus the sunset cruise. Will ask the host someday - perhaps, we can afford an afternoon there instead of staying in! Ha, ha.
Probably, you are "choosy". He..he!
Or your friends are not IT savvy!
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