Thank the heavens! Facebook exec was almost on crashed plane.

[Pale Blue Dot]

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/flight-not-taken-facebook-exec-was-almost-crashed-plane-6C10551695

That was close! One of the 1% theoretically could have been killed! It was almost a tragedy.

Man, I hate the U.S. media.

[PoliticAverse]

1. When I read this...

"Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, shown here during a technology summit in June, says she would have been on the Asiana Airlines 777 jet that crashed Saturday if it weren't for another airline's frequent-flier program."

I could have sworn I was reading an article from The Onion.

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. Lol - yes.

It's hilarious, and very, very sad.

[elehhhhna]

5. her company's gonna crash too and it's too late to book a seat somewhere else

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. Having a negligible revenue stream will do that.

Failbook's only real revenue stream comes from their paid ads, and trust me, they ain't no Google in that regard. Not only is a social hub a somewhat inferior place to advertise compared to a search engine (lots of reasons for this, mainly deriving from differences in user intent), but their advertising tools are really hard to use, with unintuitive interfaces and shit-tier documentation.

Can we go back to MySpace now...?

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Whew! I'm so relieved.

Not. What sort of sorry headline grabbing idiot would let THAT be part of the news today?

[KittyWampus]

4. that is really messed up.

[The Straight Story]

6. And I almost bought facebook stock. Guess we both avoided a disaster

[malaise]

7. A Samsung Exec was on the plane

he survived