Tired of getting friend requests, Bill Gates quits Facebook

by Brad Linder Feb 12th 2008

You know, every time we look at that headline, we have to remind ourselves that this isn't an article from The Onion. But seriously, it appears that Microsoft founder Bill Gates has decided to stop using Facebook, a site his company recently spend $240 million to buy a 1.6% stake in.

The reason? Because Gates was getting 8,000 friend requests a day and spending 30 minutes every day on the site. But come on, it's not like the guy has anything else to do now that he's stepping down as CEO, right?

The Sun initially broke the news, saying that Gates had deleted his account. But we all know how difficult it is to actually delete a Facebook account. Fortunately, the Wall Street Journal did a bit of investigative work and discovered that Gates has simply decided to stop using his account. So there's hope that one day he will return and kick your ass at Scrabulous.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: bill-gates, facebook, friend-requests

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

faraj said 10:10PM on 3-07-2008

yea

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