Too many friends
While many people
would not think that Bill Gates was a person with too many friends,
apparently he is on Facebook.
Bill has said he was forced to give up on the
social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his
friend. Gates, the billionaire computer geek-turned-philanthropist said he
had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to be my
friends".
It apparently bothered Bill if he knew anyone who was applying
to be his friend. He said in the end it was way too much trouble and he gave
up.Gates was in the Indian capital to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for
Peace, Disarmament and Development, awarded by the government for his
work for the charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation. Gates also confided to the audience that he was "not that big at
text messaging" and that "I'm not a 24-hour-a-day tech person". He
preferred to get away from the computer and read a nice book instead.
Gates
said the information technology revolution had been "hugely beneficial" but
added that these tools of tech waste our time if we're not careful.