That’s a lot of sheep throwing
This NY Times article on a young guy who got rich in the first tech boom (he co-founded PayPal) and is now trying to get rich in the second (current) boom was not particularly interesting as a whole but I found this tidbit, concerning the gentleman in question’s company Slide.com, fascinating:
Facebook users, for instance, use Slide-produced playthings like its multimedia “FunWall” or the “SuperPoke” widgets that let them hug or punch a fellow member (figuratively speaking) or even throw a virtual sheep at someone (as apparently 20,000 people an hour choose to do, according to Slide).
Italics mine. 20,000 people are throwing sheep at each other on Facebook every hour? That’s crazy. Am I to understand that 480,000 sheep are being thrown a day, 175,200,000 sheep a year? I’m sure this means something about our society but for the life of me I can’t figure out what.
Holla at me