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I used to think Mark Zuckerberg's achievement with Facebook was a fabulous inspiration to entrepreneurs everywhere.

我曾经认为，马克•扎克伯格（MarkZuckerberg）创建Facebook所取得的成就，是对各行各业企业家的极大鼓舞。

Mr. Rose didn't rule that out, but said the company had no current plans to do so and was focused on virtual goods for now.

罗斯并未排除这一可能性，但他说，眼下Facebook并无此计划，目前该公司的重点放在虚拟商品上。

Facebook is not the only social-networking site which likes to think of itself as the new, new thing.

Facebook并不是唯一喜欢将自己看作是绝对新生事物的社交网站，它的规模甚至也不是最大的。

After two hours, he moved to his laptop, on which he watched a TV program and checked his Facebook page during commercials.

两个小时后，他转移到他的笔记本上，开始看电视剧，在插播广告时，浏览一下他的Facebook页面。

With a Facebook IPO at least a year off, many investors are keen for a slice of "the Facebook of China" .

鉴于Facebook至少还有一年才会启动IPO，许多投资者渴望从“中国版Facebook”的增长中分得一杯羹。

Taken together, the changes mark something of a shift in Facebook's attitude towards online privacy.

总之，这种变化反应了脸谱网对网络隐私态度的一种转变。

The hope was that, in the age of YouTube and Facebook, the regime would avoid repeating the horrors of 1982.

希望在拥有Youtube和Facebook（脸书）的时代里，这个政权不会再重复82年的惨剧。

And if it were up to Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook would remain private.

如果是让扎克伯格说了算的话，Facebook就会一直不上市。

This was not, of course, the first time that not being on Facebook had made me feel as if I lived under a rock.

不上Facebook，让我觉得我好像安稳地生活在岩石底下、与世隔绝，当然，这不是第一次我有这样的感觉了。

MySpace began life as part of the News Corporation with the same sort of hoopla that now surrounds Facebook.

MySpace开始作为新闻集团的一部分，同注册Facebook的情况一样喧闹。

What made F8 significant, historic even, was that it was the first time the Facebook platform was thrown open to developers.

F8之所以如此重要，甚至可以说是历史性的，是因为这是Facebook平台第一次呈现在开发者们眼前。

On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands.

在Facebook上，你想成为什么样的人都行，只要你不怕遭到世界顶级品牌的广告的狂轰滥炸。

The culmination of this process is the likes of Facebook, whipped up in a few days by a Harvard student.

在这一过程的鼎盛期，出现了像Facebook这样由一个哈佛（Harvard）学生在寥寥数天之内“赶制”出来的公司。

Sandberg says she's not daunted by the challenge, but adds that the only expectations that Facebook is trying to meet are its own.

桑德伯格说，她没有被挑战吓倒，但她补充说，Facebook只会去满足自己对自己的期望。

Also, its effective use by activists to help organise the revolt in Egypt has left an inconvenient halo around the company.

活动分子有效利用Facebook组织埃及革命，也给这家公司戴上了一个尴尬的光环。

If it has been this easy to file a malicious claim and take down an entire brand's page, why hasn't Facebook done anything about it?

如果发布恶意投诉及把整个品牌的页面拿下是如此简单的话，为什么Facebook就不能做些什么呢？

'Before it was email, then before that it was the phone. The problem is not Facebook, it is the loss of love in your marriage, ' he said.

他说：“之前我们怪电子邮件，再之前怪电话。问题不在于Facebook，而在于你婚姻里的爱已经消逝。”

The company has both scale and a strong brand, says Lise Buyer, a Silicon Valley-based IPO consultant.

硅谷的一位IPO顾问拜尔（LiseBuyer）说，Facebook既有规模，又有品牌。

"There is no doubt that Facebook has improved my life in building relationships with other people, " Chiles said.

蔡斯说：“毫无疑问，在与他人建立联系上，Facebook改善了我的生活。”

I was never a big Facebook addict to begin with, but I'd still end up wasting my time there just to see what everybody else was up to.

我从来都不沉迷于Facebook，但是我仍然会把我的时间浪费在那里，仅仅是看别人在忙什么。