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Eliminate activities that require you to be around people you cannot stand. Don't do things for people who should be doing them themselves... and don't waste time chasing trophies.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Activities Around Cannot Chasing Doing Eliminate People Require Should Stand Them Themselves Things Time Trophies Waste Waste Time Who You

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For a while, I couldn't join Facebook because of my last name. During the registration process, I was asked for my real name, and when I wrote 'Fake,' it rejected me. Finally, a friend working for Facebook took care of me.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Asked Because Care Facebook Fake Finally Friend Join Last Me Name Process Real Rejected Took While Working Wrote

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My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Background Being Blogging Community Geek Got Internet Literature Magic Me Moment Networks Online Personal Publishing Self-Expression Shakespeare Social Social Networks Software Web 1980S

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'Game Never Ending' came out of an earlier game called 'NeoPets,' a children's game that adults also played. It was a series of mini-games where you accrue points and can acquire objects - houses and all kinds of stuff.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Acquire Adult Also Came Children Earlier Ending Game Houses Kinds Never Objects Out Played Points Series Stuff Where You

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When we were making Flickr, we called it the 'Eyes of the World.' The idea was that everybody, everywhere, is looking. It was this sense of being able to penetrate worlds that you had never been able to access before - of global, universal travel.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Able Access Been Before Being Everybody Everywhere Eyes Global Had Idea Looking Making Never Penetrate Sense Travel Universal Were World Worlds You

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The computers people have are no longer on their desks but in their hands, and that is probably the transformative feature of the technology. These computers are with you, in the world.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Computers Feature Hands Longer People Technology Transformative World You

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My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff. Physical objects. The world and the trees and the sunshine and the flowers. And all of that doesn't seem to really exist out in the ether of the Internet.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Art Background Ether Exist Flowers Internet Know Like Materials Objects Occasional Out Painter Physical Really Sculptor Seem Stuff Sunshine Trees World You

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My life project is humanizing technology: making technology more real and bringing it back into human interactions.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Back Bringing Human Interactions Life Making More My Life Project Real Technology

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I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of Jorge Luis Borges, I found a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark - perfect strangers - whom I connected to online and immediately became enthralled by the idea of virtual communities.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Became Clothes Communities Connected Denmark Eccentric Fan Found Group Idea Immediately Interested Jersey Mostly New New Jersey Online Perfect Popularity Scholars Sports Strangers Suburban Teenager Town Virtual Whom

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My favorite online communities are characterized by their incredible generosity.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Characterized Communities Favorite Generosity Incredible Online

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: June 13th, 1969

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