alexbeaudet: zachklein: I heard from an...

20th August 2008

Post reblogged from Alex Beaudet with 13 notes

zachklein:

I heard from an employee close to the deal that the Mormon church’s genealogy business made an unsolicited bid to acquire Facebook.

While maintaining the country’s largest ancestral database, they certainly have a motive to control this generation’s biographical data, and they certainly have the cash to do it. In 1996, Time Magazine estimated the church’s annual revenues to be $5 billion, with total assets at $25 to $30 billion.

This sounds creepy. I’d imagine many people would migrate away from a Mormon-church-owned-Facebook, making this a terrible play for them, in my opinion.

Hah, I was about to reblog this and say that the people posting this might as well say, “I know nothing about the Mormon Church, but I find it vaguely creepy”. But people beat me to it saying it for real. Awesome.

Source: zachklein

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