Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" 335
theodp writes "A day after taking Facebook public, CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his Facebook status to 'married' after wedding longtime girlfriend and recent med school grad Priscilla Chan on Saturday. No word if Zuckerberg heeded Donald Trump's prenup advice."
If you're subscribed to him.. (Score:5, Insightful)
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The person would not discuss the names of others who attended to protect their privacy.
Oh the irony...
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Insightful)
But you care enough to post a comment about it.
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...post will be the main reason for the slashdotters to quit!
Re:If you're subscribed to him.. (Score:3, Insightful)
If she talks about how "unromantic" a prenup is, watch out! Women resort to emotional appeal when you successfully point out they make no logical sense.
I mean marriage itself is pretty unromantic when you think about it. Marriage is "yeah we could decide just to be together, you and me, on our own... but wait! let's add a contract with the government because legal systems and licenses are soooo romantic!" A prenup is really just a variation.
Gentlemen, the time to settle everything is before you say "I do" because you are a man and family courts HATE men and want them to suffer. She gets half your stuff even if she didn't earn a dime of it, guess that's the vagina tax? She automatically gets any kids unless you can prove she's a crack dealer and even then... Don't even get me started on alimony - she has this supposed "right" to "get used to a lifestyle" you provided. Yeah well you got used to a lifestyle she provided too, but is the court going to mandate she come give you a BJ every now and then? No, they won't.
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Marriage is nothing but a vestige of the days when the church ruled the governments of the world that has only held on as long as it has because of the tax benefits involved. Dump the tax benefits of marriage and watch the marriage rate plummet overnight.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
As if 99% of the people on the average Facebook junkie's friend's list are actually "friends" in the first place.
Facebook has taken the word 'friend' and perverted it to mean anyone you've ever spoken to in your life, at any point of your life, from kindergarten to present, and the sick thing is, people actually are starting to think of those people as their friends.
GP was being a douche, I'll grant that, but let's not pretend that Facebook friends are actually friends in the true meaning of the word. People collect friends on Facebook like they're Pokemon...
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Marriage...has only held on as long as it has because of the tax benefits involved. Dump the tax benefits of marriage and watch the marriage rate plummet overnight.
Not sure I can buy into this side of your argument. When you consider everything involved, do you really think that people get married primarily for tax reasons? Half the people who get married spend so much on the event that I find it hard to believe that they ever recoup that in taxes unless they make $200k/yr or something.
Tons of marriages are between people in their mid-20s who barely have jobs let alone a grasp of tax accounting.
I think the main driver for marriage is tradition and pressure by family to conform to social norms. That, and nobody in love really wants to plan for the incredibly unlikely event that something will go wrong.
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If he married a Robot or an executive from Google. That may be a little different.
I dunno I found it somewhat interesting. Looking at some pictures of his new wife shows her to be rather plain looking [zimbio.com] and frequently struggling with her weight. I find myself constantly looking for reasons to hate the guy, but at least respect is due to someone who marries his pre-fame college sweetheart when he could likely take his pick from just about any of the top millionaire supermodels.
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Yahoo! is great, everyone uses it, it's going to be around for ever!
MySpace is great, everyone uses it, it's going to be around for ever!
Later...
Facebook is great, everyone uses it, it's going to be around for ever!
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I think the main driver for marriage is tradition and pressure by family to conform to social norms.
For men.
For women, they've mostly been dreaming about their wedding day and married bliss since they were children. It's the fairy tale dream come true. And that's why they consider no expense is too much for the wedding day.
Yes, I generalise. That's what men do.
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For women, they've mostly been dreaming about their wedding day and married bliss since they were children.
And why?
Because they've had this "dream" pounded into their heads since the day of their birth by their equally-brainwashed mothers.
Same deal with the perceived need to have kids. Gotta get those buns in the oven, you know. How many times have you seen mummy's little girl pushing along a wee toy pram with a wee baby doll in it? Who brought that damned and damning prop into the kid's life?
Looks like tradition (in its worst guise) and familial pressure to me.
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It's a smart move actually.
If you marry someone you started dating before they knew you had money, you know they like you and not just your wallet.
This is not a small thing.
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What is with Slashdotters? Plain? Stocky? "Struggling with her weight?" If you go outside twice a week you'll see that this is what most people look like. I think she's a cute girl who probably weighs what normal women weigh, for all that it's my business or even of interest to me. She wouldn't stop the music walking into a bar, but she'd definitely get a few drinks bought for her.
Struggling with her weight, please. She's wearing an H & M skirt that comes up to her nose. Aunt Flo was probably in town and she threw something baggy on to go buy groceries. If and when you con some woman into marrying you that will make sense.
God, seriously, you people and your sharp knees...
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What IS with Slashdotters? Normal women? She's chubby. In some of those pictures she could stand to lose a few pounds. Yes, this is all too common, yes this isn't a big deal, but it's reality. It doesn't matter that there are guys out there who like amputees. That doesn't make amputees the normal, healthy body. All the fat apologism on this site is one step from a HAES Tumblr blog.
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The reality is that most reasonable people here don't care, and are thus not commenting.
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Your original statement suggested that every living woman is only interested in money when selecting a partner. That's a bit of an offensive perspective on women.
Seth
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Do you struggle to understand basic emotion, or to empathize with other humans? There are times people have emotions that are not founded on logic, and thats OK. If you love someone not for what they can do for you, or you want to have kids for more reasons than "they will support me in my old age", thats perfectly fine.
It might occur to you that some people want kids because theyve seen how much joy they can bring to a household-- but then that requires you to actually care about other humans, which concept you seem to be struggling with.
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Actually she's not fat, and she looks very pretty and sweet. More likely than not, she is also very intelligent. In short, the kind of woman that you will probably never have.
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Actually she's not fat, and she looks very pretty and sweet. More likely than not, she is also very intelligent. In short, the kind of woman that you will probably never have.
I think she's a "butterface" (everything looks nice ... but her face). Like Garner from the show Alias. But she's definitely not obese and anorexia isn't sexy; you're not supposed to be attracted to nutcases. I am in the USA so I really, REALLY wish more women had a BMI like hers. Seriously.
The US dating pool is drastically reduced by too many people who seem hardcore determined to commit suicide-by-food. That's both sexes, for my lady friends complain about this too. Barring a physical cause like a thyroid disorder, which is very rare, it's just not possible to be obese and emotionally healthy at the same time. And believe me, you really don't want to be yoked to a woman who is an emotional disaster. Obesity is one of those things that's unattractive for good reason, it is not merely a matter of taste. I wouldn't want to be with a food-aholic any more than I'd like to be with an alcoholic. Both are self-destructive.