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When you saw only one set of tracking cookies, it was then that Mark Zuckerberg was carrying you.


For others who didn't get the reference, it's a Christian poem called "footprints in the sand":

> When you saw only one set of footprints,

> It was then that I carried you.

https://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Po...


When you saw only one set of footprints,

that's when I bailed because you wouldn't shut up about your keto diet.


I feel like there needs to be a hyper-specific term for when the CEO of a social media company personally directs the ads targeted to you based off what he observes of your behavior by shoulder surfing your internet browsing.


BookFacing


God dammit you made me spit out my coffee.


This needs to be printed on posters, made into cross stitch, and all of the other various ways people have this hanging in their homes. well played


My father is a pastor, so this story has always been plastered over our house in some kind of painting or other artifact. I'll print one with what you said and send him. He'll probably disown me.


It's curious how gentle the transition for many companies from powerhouse to irrelevance is in the common perception. To realize they're already at the point where intelligent ridicule supplants impassioned critique kinda blows my mind, and as far as I can tell you're not wrong.


Honestly, I just thought Sandberg was laying it on a little thick with "I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there."

But this is probably my most upvoted HN comment ever, which mostly just makes me ashamed.


Bravo


You win today's Internet(tm).




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