kariatx

No, it's sexist in Austin too. For sure.

I'm still trying to figure out why there aren't more women in tech.

I think a more interesting question is what sort of responsibility Gowalla founders had to its employees. I've noticed that a good number of employees aren't staying on with the Facebook transition (by my count, only a small minority are going on to Palo Alto). Maybe they had better offers elsewhere, but considering some people are opting for uncertainty / unemployment, my speculation is that they got the short end of the stick with this one.

I use Facebook to administer our business page on there. We have 70K+ users, and we get a lot of spam that is not automatically filtered out. I'm on there a lot cleaning things up.

Otherwise, I don't really add any content to Facebook much considering how often I log in. Most of my friends (professionals in their mid to late 30s) have more or less stopped using it, except for women with small children.

Thanks! I write them all myself, but I use a lot self-written software at this point to streamline the writing process. And yes, 100% ad based. Adsense actually probably pays us the most we could get for our traffic with the least amount of intrusion.

Or just not care enough about Facebook to keep track of the number - which is the case for me.

Exactly. If I look at the recommended friends page, people who defriended me are often near the top (probably because of the high number of mutual friends).

In this case, "he" is a "she", btw :-)

I've found that Facebook's friend recommendations are a good way of being able to tell who has defriended you. For years now, in fact.

I started Blogthings.com (a personality quiz site) in 2004 by myself, and I've never had a job while working in it. It makes enough money for both my husband and I to live off of, and we split the work on it, which ends up just being a few hours a week (no more than 10). I spend my free time working on my programming / math and figuring out what's next.