EffBook Is Effing Lovin’ Life

A real-life friend of ours recently described the social networking site Facebook as “perverting the natural order of things.”

“Some people are meant to drift in and out of our lives,” she said.

It’s true, but that wisdom is lost on the vast majority of us who at this very minute  are thinking of something clever to put into our status updates for Thanksgiving … you know, to impress all those people who have drifted back into our lives again.

Anyway, America’s Effbook addiction is big money for 25-year-0ld founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who launched the website from his dorm room at Harvard five years ago this month.

From the WSJ:

The fast-growing company, which operates one of the most popular sites on the Web, said earlier this year it is generating positive cash flow and that revenue in 2009 is expected to be up more than 70% from 2008.

Up more than 70%?  Talk about recession-proof.

Zuckerberg is worth an estimated $2 billion, by the way, which has to be the fastest rise to billionaire status, like, ever.

After all, Bill Gates took twelve years to make his first billion, Apple’s Steve Jobs took nineteen years.  The Google guys?  It took them eight years.

UPDATE – Turns out Pierre Omidyar of eBay is the record holder, making his first billion in just three years.

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