Bill Gates Tries Facebook, Quits Facebook
10,000 friend requests made Bill Gates give up on Facebook.
Even though he's no longer at the helm of Microsoft, most people of the world see Bill Gates as the man of technology. After all, it is the company that he founded that drives the majority of software technology on computers today.
Perhaps that is why it's amusing to learn that Bill Gates isn't all that Web 2.0, at least not when it comes to social networking. According to the AFP, Bill Gates told an audience in New Delhi, where he was receiving the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, that he tried out Facebook but had to quit after he had "10,000 people wanting to be my friends."
Gates said that that he had trouble figuring out of those 10,000 people which of them he actually knew. "It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up," said Gates.
This is particularly interesting as in late October 2007, Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook.
The Microsoft chairman also revealed that he wasn't a "24-hour-a-day tech person," and that he was "not that big at text messaging."

He can use MSN to talk to his friends anyway
Personally I find internet social networking kind of pointless with anyone who I do not know in person.
I think Bill would be more suited for Twitter. Well only if he actually Tweeted.
He can use MSN to talk to his friends anyway
Personally I find internet social networking kind of pointless with anyone who I do not know in person.
I think you may have missed the original point of facebook.
It took me about an hour just to file through and delete them.
My actual "friend" count is like 10 LOL.
PS.. I never invited Bill to be my frien
Facebook is just an online advertisement of yourself. Look at all the cool things I'm doing. Look at how busy I am. Look at how cool I am. Don't you wish you could be my real friend?
Your real friends know how fake that is. The "concert" you just went to was just a couple of guys playing in a coffeeshop and you left after 15 minutes so that you could get back to playing World of Warcraft. That "party" you went to was actually a LAN party, or worse, a console party where everyone takes turns playing Halo 3 against each other. You have a very ordinary, boring life.
If your Facebook page was a real ad, you'd be sued for false advertising. Ad was deceiptive, implied he/she was doing a lot of stuff but all this person does is play computer games! I want my time back!
Incredible how many people are doing so many cool things in their lives, I wonder how they even have time to eat or sleep when I see their facebook page. How are they able to keep up with their hundreds of friends. Uh, they can't. Those are just Facebook friends, they could pass each other in the street without recognizing one another.
Where are the Facebook pages with real people with only a few friends? And entries like, "I played World of Warcraft yesterday. Went to sleep, then played computer games when I woke up. Repeat for week"? Come on let's get real here.