Information Labor

Zuckerberg's best friend and CFO of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin initially owned 30% of the company. As more investors came in, his percentage of the company naturally decreased. Facebook was diluting him out of the company. This entire issue over the ownership of Facebook and who exactly is the rightful owner and creator of this multi billion dollar company deals with the topic of information labor: the work that goes behind the creating and accessing information, particularly on the web. Now put this in the context of Facebook. As of 2011, there are 500,000,000 active facebook users in the world. But out of all of these users, how many of them ever think about the work, the money, and the controversy put into the creation of Facebook? In fact, "social networking sites like Facebook demand constant human content moderation and censorship of photos, videos.."(Downey, Pg. 4) Due to the high amount of work required to run facebook, facebook currently has around 4,300 employees.