Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends'
 

NEW DELHI (AFP) – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.

Gates, the billionaire computer geek-turned-philanthropist who was honoured Saturday by India for his charity work, told an audience in New Delhi he had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to be my friends".

Gates, who remains Microsoft chairman, said he had trouble figuring out whether he "knew this person, did I not know this person".

"It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up," Gates told the business forum.

Gates was in the Indian capital to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, awarded by the government for his work for the charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The foundation, built by his massive fortune, has committed nearly one billion dollars to health and development projects in India, targeting especially AIDS and polio.

Gates also confided to the audience that he was "not that big at text messaging" and that "I'm not a 24-hour-a-day tech person".

"I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer," he said.

Gates, who sought to drive a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home, said the information technology revolution had been "hugely beneficial" but added: "All these tools of tech waste our time if we're not careful."

that's what fanpages are for

That just describes facebook

rs?
nahh...

rich fuck

+1

bill gates is a fag anyways,

his days are numbered.. when google comes out with their operating system, he's fuckin donedies!

^ Maybe in the very far future, but let's face it. How many companies out there would switch out of Windows?

Even look at Apple. NOBODY uses that at work, especially in engineering/science fields!

yeah he's just gonna run through his billions because of his horrible spending habits.:rolleyes:

What a noob, he could've made it so people couldn't search for him, or add him.

RAGE!!!!

say say say!

Over the years, I've heard of many many OS's that people think will topple Windows... none of them ever did. Not Linux, not OSX, BeOS, etc.... NONE... you think Google's any different? Google's primary business isn't OS's, it's advertising. They're using their OS to gather info to further their advertising business. Yes... it's a spying tool

I believe he's donating his billions before he dies... after leaving enough for his children to live comfortably of course.. He plans to die broke

apparently his kids are not in his will

$40 billion ought to be enough for anyone.

if google came up with something more simple, powerful, and easy to use with great internet security, why wouldn't they?


yea, he's gonna lose all his money from all his stupid "i'm a PC" ads




google does everything. look at how open source it is. it's scary how much the company has grown, and it will overtake microsoft in the years to come.

he prob just says that, im sure he will leave them a bill each haha

lol... all those ppl who added him on facebook is just after his money!

Hes has more $ than the sperm you have in your balls.

i see boss status clad is back on his grind posting more insightful comments

Yeah what does he know!

Yes people will up and throw away their copy of Windows and switch to a new unproven OS, toppling Microsoft's 90%+ share of the desktop market.... :haha:

yea, and he has all that market share because no on has stepped up to the plate. google will. their technologies are crazy, and getting crazier.
google overtaking microsoft will take more than one night.




yo wuzzup in da hood homo G, quit talking like a bitch nigga, you homo.

Plenty have stepped up to the plate and they failed. The only memorable one was OS2 from IBM. Google has ambitions but after they release something, they tend to forget about it. It makes a big splash then.... nothing... Android, lots of hype but how many people do you see using it? Chrome, again, how many people tried and tossed it? Gmail, how long was it labeled Beta? Google Video, could not compete with Youtube so they bought Youtube.

I don't think it'll break Bill Gates, if he's smart... and something tells me he is, he already owns a big chunk of Google just like he owns a large number of Apple shares.