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"His behavior is what I would expect of someone his age — the hoodies and everything else," said Chris Whalen, senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners in New York.

Those crazy 28-year olds with their hoodies are wrecking society! Has he heard of Google?

Whatever Facebook does, they certainly shouldn't go pandering to ignorant bankers like this guy NYT quoted. Being obsessed with quarterly financials is the reason we had to wait for Apple to make a decent phone. Every other company had to keep rolling out their incrementally polished turds in time for Christmas sales.

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I don't know... I think Mr. Whalen knows a thing or two about websites: http://www.rcwhalen.com/

To be less flippant: I can't help but consider that although there are significant clouds over Facebook's future ("How to make money on mobile?" being the biggest question) some of the negativity surrounding Facebook is due to Mark being a young CEO and being product-focused. Like many others I don't know what the best path to revenue for Facebook but there is a very intelligent team in place and I think they are well suited to figure out mobile.

It's going to be a great day when our society can finally move past imaginary class systems based on the nonsensical belief that a cut of cloth can be a sign of disrespect or weakness or, frankly, holds any relevance at all. That's the same kind of backward, old world thinking that turns a NASA systems engineer's mohawk into major national news; because apparently it's shocking to find out that a person with uncommonly styled hair can be intelligent and successful.

I think we're already there for anyone who has at least one eye open. I mean people talk about a Silicon Valley eco-chamber, but it sounds like some people have been stuck in a Wall Street echo chamber if they haven't noticed the enormous value that has been created in recent decades by people who are comfortably dressed.

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