In June 2006, Yahoo offered billion dollars to buy Facebook. The closest advisor told Mark Zuckerberg that if he didn’t sell it, he would regret it for the rest of his life. As kind of an autocrat who could make an executive decision, he rejected it. The willpower and hubris of the behemoth made many staff leave though, a dawn came up on the heels of the rough time. They found that users clicked their friends' and families’ profiles on and on. So they added a feature called "Newsfeed," where your friends' story was just a click away. It overhauled Facebook. You could know what was happening all over the world in real-time. But, there was a downside; a privacy and PR crisis occurred. When you bought something in another online shopping mall, your friends, family, and spouse could see these records. It flashed up on your Facebook. A former director remembers that her phone was ringing off the hook with messages like “What have you done to Facebook?” It took them a month to deal with the bet. In the end, they announced users could opt out of this feature. After the Newsfeed outrage, people were disappointed with Facebook. But it was an understatement. At that point, a woman at Google was gearing up to work for Facebook.
*Vocabularies; on the heels of, (just) a click away, behemoth, autocrat, hubris, overhaul, gear up, be ringing off the hook, down the line, flash up, understatement, outrage, bet, pay off, PR, opt out
*Vocabularies; on the heels of, (just) a click away, behemoth, autocrat, hubris, overhaul, gear up, be ringing off the hook, down the line, flash up, understatement, outrage, bet, pay off, PR, opt out
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