The Town That Facebook Built
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year 2050:
'where are you from?'
'oh i was born in Facebook City but my parents are originally from Apple City'
You win
So Cupertino?
lol you're not wrong. Some cities in the Bay Area are known for a tech company:
Mountain View = Google
Menlo Park = Facebook
Cupertino = Apple
@@jdm4087 I was born in a hospital in Google City and raised in Intel City. My grandparents lived in Apple City and my uncle lived in Twitter City, while his then girlfriend lived in Oracle City. My dad worked in Facebook City.
Haha 😂 so right
I was halfway expecting a black tower with Zuckerberg’s eye wreathed in flame like Sauron.
ROFL I just spit out my milk! Priceless. I thought maybe there's be this BORG CUBE from star trek, but I like your take much better.
they don't show the morning welcome ceremony!
I picture an oversized reptilian zuckerberg head.
hahah rofl. Best answer ever. I think you could also be describing Amazon.
@@missymoonwillow6545 that's more like the microsoft campus...
Its like college for middle aged adults
mjncad worked its like that at google and apple as well
I don't see anyone over 30. I think that is the cut off..
It's just college 2.0, 21-27 years old
I guess for that those in that community, it must feel like they went to college and never left.
@@enriqueali not at all, all the smartest senior engineers are at top companies. That's why it's hard for smaller companies to keep talent. The young engineers aren't working on the serious stuff.
mark didn't finished his college so he built a college to work
Lmaoooo!!! A "college"
Best comment, because its totally true.
When you’re a drop out and miss living on campus
gdp vs company value isn't fair at all, it should be gdp vs revenue, since gdp is basically a country's revenue
Thank God someone understands this.
@@adad-ec6ht indeed
I always like looking at revenue over market value since market value could be inflated or undervalued. The revenue is what their actually doing.
Even my company boss will relate company revenue with GDP, I wish I had the guts to correct him.
@linlinö önilnil there is no country that pays its debt wholly with its revenue. It doesn't work like that
Damn this coulda been Myspace but yall playing too much
If Tom really wanted to. He would be able to knock off Facebook quick. Tom has the money to do it. But i know with all the money he got from selling it, he's to busy traveling the world and doesn't wanna deal with headaches and stress.
Lol
i miss myspace.
Why do I feel like the MySpace version would have badder bitches
oh this is real burn
There is a certain dystopic tint on this entire complex
Creepyville
I feel the same way.
Putting their reputation and any negative publicity aside, the building in general seems like a series of cobbled together afterthoughts piled on top one another.
There are a lot of design elements in use that seem to clash.
Maybe they should take a queue from Apple, and hit the reset button with a new campus designed from the ground up.
I would actually say utopian because everyone seems to enjoy this place, and it doesn’t seem sad or unjust.
It's a Progressive Utopia...
Z U C C the world
"While Facebook are the first to adrmit that they are far from perfect" - Really not the impression I have of Facebook
Recommend watching it 1.5x speed
Even go for 1.75
@@seth9301 k thank you
@@jory8811 welcome
You're the fucking man
Or woman
Edit. I cannot change the goddamn speed
Why?
I live in Menlo Park- can confirm the offices are awesome, they host festivals in the parking lot, although the rest of Menlo Park is pretty great too
Edit- what the hell do you mean the "Menlo Park" region of Palo Alto, they are entirely different cities
gotta keep you guys from asking questions right? mr nice cop that hosts pot lucks for the community... lol. Stone chipper station, thank you for clarifying my vision. Feed the unsuspecting, mr nice pedo cop smiles... tainted, corrupt. secrecy no more. The truth is coming.
Do you work for Facebook?
@ Soup Or Man Also different counties. M.P. in San Mateo.
P. A. in Santa Clara.
@@missymoonwillow6545 No need to be jealous Missy. In 5-10 years of working hard and not worrying about food, they will retire and live wherever they want.
😆😉
I wish all those super talented, motivated young people would use their knowledge and skill to actually work in a helpful place
That probably would happen if said helpful places could outbid the not-helpful places for talent. Unfortunately, that does not often appear to be the case in current global society. =O
I just hope they make a dislike button.
Brice Deadalus angry react?
@@peterjohndelossantos3142 like what, MLM companies like #girlboss? Uber and PayPal kept more businesses afloat during the pandemic than Facebook.
@@sleekoduck I'm in no position to actually critic their compamy or your place business' status. Sorry if I offended you.
Year 2045 "What was a 'Facebook'?"
Jeffrey D highly doubt Facebook owns social media and they own even oculus rift (vr)which is arguably the future of social media
I wont be sorry if FB ends at some point in the future. Its too big, too intrusive, they store personal details which I have not agreed to.
@@oddities-whatnot they don't store my personal data agreement or not.
Yeah I know right?
2030 "What was a Facebook?"
Open plan offices are worse for productivity and employee satisfaction, they just cost so much less that every company uses them.
Team rooms, which are basically 4-12 people in a small office can be effective, if they are all working on the same things, but a huge open plan office where people doing totally different things are together is not good.
False.
True.
I’d rather work in an open plan office that a cubicle
@@avgvstvs96 It's a claim brought up by the professor Cal Newport in his book "Deep Work". He argues that the most effective way for a company to handle business is to separate employees by task and give them random encounters through means of a lounge or hallway. He proposed a building titled "The Machine" that explores this topic further and is divided into five rooms: A gallery for inspiration, a lounge for conversation, a library for research, a cubicle for light work, and a sound-proof chamber for deep work. While most of his research is anecdotal, much of his findings on open office spaces have concrete numbers to back them up. Generally you see a dip in productivity that is not recovered when converting to an open floor plan. This dip can be recovered by separating employees.
I'm sure "Rancid Marshmallow" who has a minecraft DP is an expert in this field
Thank you for working hard to bring us great masterpieces 🙏
YOU WORK THERE TOO
I live in the Bay Area and Facebook did not “Build” this town. Menlo Park has been home for the rich and tech companies (as the whole Bay Area is) and Facebook just moved in to the old defunked Sun Microsystems campus
Don't worry Jay I am the 'TRUE CREATOR' of facebook not the twins and not mak. Or w.e. the 'FUCK' that kids name is
The Town refers to the Facebook Campus, not to Menlo Park as a whole.
*defunct
Menlo Park used to be a bit sketchy because it was near EPA. Now that whole area is insanely expensive.. just crazy.
the names change, the paint colors come and go, but what is it that goes on BELOW? hmmmmmmmmm now that's the question we should be asking friends. Nasty black water btw. Someone should care enough to put money at that problem.... maybe a bunch of rich pricks can pool in and fix the toxic water issue next to facebook land.
This was great stuff! I learned so much from this video! Thank you for all of your hard work in putting this production together!
"I Own my soul to the company store." Is a song that pops in my head. The song name is Sixteen Tons, I think.
Adam Ovard....*I owe my soul to the company store....
honestly i thought this was a facebook ad up until it ended!
Excellent report B1M, another great video! Please take this conversation up another level by connecting more discussions of planning and transportation with your earlier detailed explanations of BIM and AIM for operations!
you guys know your thing, great content
I genuinely wonder why Facebook even needs that many employees. What do they all do every day?
They just spend all day censoring all conservative opinions.
@@tediousmaximus1067 really? now?
@@tediousmaximus1067 the facebook employees at the campus are the coders and engineers that run the technical operations. People who do the censoring are mostly not full time employees
programming and maintenance. Anyone who has ever worked in IT, knows that what seems like a simple little problem, can spin completely out of proportion and take days or weeks to solve. Mainly because after trying the standard ways of solving the problem, we just resort to trial and error by ticking every possible solution off, one by one. It's tedious and boring as fuck, but it's pretty normal to do. This always applies to programming too.
@David On I don't live in thailand and I have never lived there. I was born in the us and moved to europe. Wrong person?
Facebook paid for this by selling all your personal information. LOL
You agreed to it
That’s hilarious
And youtube is paying their servers selling your personal information as well...
What you watch says more about you than your profile on facebook.
There was nowhere they told me that my information was to be sold.
Dude, honestly, what were you expecting when using it? We can't expect a company just give us for free the
service that costs them money
Great work guys ...keep up the good work and would love to see more vedios like this ❤️❤️👍
As a native of the Bay Area (and someone who delivered mail decades ago in Menlo Park), I thank you for the presentation. A few issues . . .
It's possible someone has beat me to this issue. Menlo Park is a separate city in a different county from Palo Alto. It has its own history of technology. In other words, it is not the "Menlo Park region of Palo Alto."
I agree with some of the other comments about open space - in my experience, it looked good on paper but was not great when it was the only thing available. As for your overuse of the buzzword "collaboration," the less said the better. I'm truly not sure how that word became so popular.
The need for public transportation is obvious and I hope you address that subject in other videos. The campus is perhaps 4 or 5 miles from the Caltrain station in the center of Menlo Park. A short distance to bike in good weather but only if one is comfortable on high-traffic roads. Has FB done anything to provide a reasonable solution to the matter?
its all corrupt and all restricted by creepy underground crap. As above, so below. Labs, all kinds of shady government research projects going on, right below the busy streets, right below everyone's noses. Mocking even you and your "authority on Menlo Park History". AWESOME MAN! I'm born in San Mateo, lived all over the bay area, moved the hell away and am better for it. My perspective has been enhanced thanks to some much unwanted first hand life experience. The bay Area is TAINTED TO THE CORE. No love from me. Not since deep state operatives came in and CORRUPTED THE WHOLE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, has any city's history been valued. Wealth, power, secrecy, clubs, societies, underground networks and training your population of underground workers to lie to common folk who have not a clue..... that's the bay area as it will be remembered. The birth place of mind control and it's use in media technologies, film, music.... thanks so much. Can't wait to see the laser light shows, the ufo's and more deadly wild fires and power outages. martial law comes. Hope you're ready people.
They offer free shuttles for free not only to Caltrain stations but also to towns and cities as far as San Francisco
@@missymoonwillow6545 have you done any kind of drugs?? Son? Are you high right now??
want more videos like this please
I enjoyed this video, thank you for making it. I would also be curious to see a video about Apple’s new campus in Cupertino. I have been told “The Spaceship” is a feat of engineering.
Too much love for this video from Kenya
More videos like this. I enjoyed the history part about it also.
Love your videos :)
Great video!
It's a good one.
This channel is so well made
I was lucky enough to come here a couple of times a year cause my friend's mom worked at facebook and it was really fun, there was a kitchen/food every 50 feet with unlimited food and in the main kitchen they had a huge buffet that served breakfast, lunch and dinner with a kitchen staff of 25+, they also had a whole ice cream store with (free) ice cream everything was free if I didn't mention it and there was a huge arcade with lots of machines and games on them to play. Also, the new west building had a landscaped roof which you could walk on with a view of the marsh.
All this, and we still don’t have dark mode 😒
what?
I occasionally have that dream where I am back at University, had missed most of my last semester classes of my last year...had never taken a midterm nor submitted a paper....not a dream, a nightmare! This reminds me of that! LOL
some really great ideas... and some wonderful pictures. BUT the whole development is still dominated by a massive concrete highway. The busy highway even goes right along the banks of the waterway, cutting it off from the buildings. It would be really revolutionary for a US company if they started off an open site that had a good rail / metro link or a network of public transport.
.....or they could eventually just build over htat part of the interstate and make the interstate go "underground" or under the city.
l learn so much with this!Thank you
been there. One of the most interesting buildings I've ever been in
Fantastic video! Very interesting. Not that I would want to work there but it's a fascinating perspective on what's going on in the world.
Why wouldn't you?
You should cover the General Motors Technical Center, the very first corporate campus, that started the trend of these kinds of sites
Very informative and awesomely explained....👌
Thanks! Amazing content!
YOU WORK THERE KISHORE. I CAN TELL BY YOUR DAMN NAME
@@randomoverpopulatedworldid3286
Lol I don't , I stay in India :p
I've worked for all the big SV companies. I found FB's HQ to be off putting on the outside and strictly regulated, while Google [alphabet] was the most open on the outside and very easy to deal with corporate. I actually even worked at the old Sun Microsystem campus many times. [we build corporate TV news chat show sets and oversized 'fun things' for them all].
I LOVE this channel.
Love The B1M!
So interesting! Do you think Facebook will keep growing after all their sescurity problems? Great Video!
Great Video!
I LOVE B1M
Security problems is their business model
@@drgato5231 yes they will..
Facebook and insta have became a part of the life of people..
And the growth of internet usage is increasing massively in developing nations..
And the first thing they do after having a personal phone is install facebook,instagram and some major apps..
And no one is yet in the competition of these social networking companies....
The true story of social networking www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/Michael-T-McKibben-AFI-backgrounder.html
Facebook is the devil but I admire the architecture and construction.
Honesty is a lacking virtue.
How so?
Even the devil prefers style and prestige.
Mark Pine it’s used as a brainwashing tool by the left and right. Facebook and other social media outlets are going to destroy our society! Brainwashed propaganda puppets are more dangerous to our society than any terrorist organization is, illegal alien, or scary dictators. People really underestimate the power of MEMES!
Joel Davies hello fellow Joel. Yes it’s very sad. But the developers knew exactly what it would turn into.
Hits different in 2021
Some of the biggest apps are basic Facebook is a blog that later just added features
"Menlo Park region of Palo Alto"??? They're two different cities...
same alien mind control influence :) Below is a city all on it's own... so little people know. Get out of cali people. Not safe.
@@missymoonwillow6545 lol ok
@@missymoonwillow6545 Menlo Park existed long before Facebook
So it's a cult.
I'll drink the kool aid if he tells me!
I don't think "cult". A new homogenization of existence to accelerate standards of living. Don't allow new mediums to become captive to pecimism (spelling? I am NOT going to carry around a dictionary NOR rely on spell-check!).
no, its just hipsterville
no its not you dumbass lol
wise observation. they put malls out of business, small family businesses like cafe's and dry cleaning... hell even domino's suffer's because of facebook. So zuckborg plans to live out the apocalypse in Tahoe. Just thought ya'll should know where to go to seek righteous payback when the illusion fades and our kids realize facebook isn't real life.
This working building is nicely designed...
The Merck Headquarters in Readington, NJ is a smaller version of this. It was used for about 20 years and now it's abandoned.
Dang, I failed my third round interview with them 3 weeks ago 😑 I want a re-do
9:13 a thousand graphic designers died watching at this time.
I don't really use FB so much anymore, and although I do empathize with some of this threads negative comments; what FB was able to build (according to this video) is MIND BOGGLING!! so I sort of get it, but I cant help but be amazed
You guys should profile the Zeitz MOCCA in Cape Town. Was recently there, and it's quite a structure.
This is the future of the working environment and it’s inviting. I still find it strange though however that big companies are now heading out of cities and away from skyscrapers. What will become of the cities and towns? For example we’re seeing high streets emptying as a result of the internet (in the UK). Is this the next stage? Firms moving to rural locations to move onto business campuses?
Good ,cities are ruined by congestion from commuters to large city centre offices..
Actually, a little google search will tell you that Facebook leased office spaces in two new skyscrapers in San Francisco, CA. 181 Fremont and the Park Tower.
Zoning restrictions in the area prevent building vertically
Yeah men
They pay less property tax. That's the only reason.
Now they can collect data without getting sued
I like your blog....it's really interesting..and thanks for giving much information about the world's best..👍✌️
I would love to see a video on Google's new LA office in Playa Vista! They took over the hanger that used to house the Spruce Goose
Looks like a federal prison to me
I keep seeing videos that equate countries GDP (gross domestic product), which is a countries overall annual production, with companies overall value. They are very different measures. Facebooks annual revenue for last year was about $28 billion I think. On the other hand, if you look at Saudi Arabia's assets in it's sovereign wealth fund and the oil company Aramco it has assets worth far in excess of it's $500 bn valuation of facebook
I find it useful as a point of reference for scale, though I agree it is pretty abstract.
Here's how I think of it: the ~80 million population of Turkey do enough work over a year to produce enough economic value to buy Amazon. Or put another way, if I owned all of Amazon and then sold it, I could basically buy all the output of Turkey for about a year.
Dosadoodle: That's helpful.
Menlo Park isn't a district of Palo Alto. In fact, they are separate but adjacent municipalities. Palo Alto in in Santa Clara County, while Menlo Park is across the creek/county border in San Mateo County.
loved the vid. thx.
11:22 is it sort of ironic that one of the roads in Facebook's campus is called Hacker Way?
the land of mockery, the club hub of jokesters and clowns. jesters with lady delights enjoyed out of the wife's sight, what these boys play with is far from the light. God See's All. He's coming for YOU ALL.
“If you... liked 😉this video...”
Damn that’s funny af
Did that say 1 hacker way? Thats funny. Good job on the vlog guys. Keep it up.
Fred Mills, what a lad!
It took me till half the vid to realize that's the roof
I wish I could live on 1 Hacker Way
Connecting the world at your fingertips. Incredible!
wheres the 11:12 image from? It is strikingly similar to monash university's centre campus at clayton
3:48 "why is this still blank?" Because they are grown ass adults not 6 year olds... bad design.
okay but in schools the adults are the ones using the boards. your logic is severely flawed.
@@mrlloydval2887 Yea but you have to insentivise them to do so, with a sallery. Kids will do it for free and enjoy it... So my logic is sound.
They will control the economy with Libra
Awesome video! Despite the proliferation of many social networks, facebook remains the best.
This is awesome!
wow. nice vid. thank you
Nice building.
Stopped using FB, not sure who still uses that ¿?
Your mum
Bots
1.5 Billion others do
Its used mostly by people in their 30+ and by developing countries mostly in Asia, Africa and South Americs
Baby boomers and the 80+ crowd, conservatives who whine how censored they are and then they start 50 thousand pro- Confederate groups on the site and claim they're preserving history.
Claims ecology, still requires employees to live off campus, hereby relying on cars.
And also builds so much free parking, with land going to waste. There's also not enough housing for the workers in the bay area to live bc of NIMBYism
I'm happy they finally have something of real value.
Would be intersted knowing which companies design and built as these facilities. Thanks for another great video.
Why compare (annual) GDPs to (total/present) company values? Also curious if FB paid for making this clip.8 - )
data gathering center that all it is, some pose as a camp lol
Meno Park is not a region of Palo Alto. They are two separate, incorporated cities sitting right next to each other.
I have visited it several times and felt good about everything.
Feelings can be fun.
Next step: reduce 20-hour work days
It's a village so you don't go home. The more you are there the more you work for the borg!
Ive been online since 1998 and can proudly boast of never opening a facebook account.... True story
tarkineWild buy a medal to celebrate your achievement!
Get me one too.
Don't do it! It's not worth it
Facebook owns other services that you may have used.
Point is you are stupid if you think that any of your information is private. People can find out everything from where and when you spend money, to your sleeping pattern, to everyone you are in contact with via phone and computer. The list goes on. And its only getting worse. There is no waking up or reacting to any of it. It has been ramping up since before we were born. The only thing that will stop it is some cataclysmic event. It wont be horrible within our lifetime. But it likely will within a generation or two.
The Town collects every minute detail about your life. Down to the number of individual hairs you shave off with each stroke of the blade.
Very interesting. Amazing headquarters 👍🏻
The true story of social networking www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/Michael-T-McKibben-AFI-backgrounder.html
It's difficult to watch a video about the good things that Facebook is doing for their employees and broader community and not be suspicious about it, in light of recent incidents.
People still use facebook? ._.
I know! Fb is so 2011 hahaha. But yeah a lot of adulta are using it, young people is not that interested in it anymore
I don't really use it anymore except for the groups. Most of the people on my friend list don't even respond to stuff I post on my wall, so why even bother posting. I've stopped posting and stopped commenting on other people's stuff too. Waste of time.
They do own Instagram though
Ignorant asshole.. 😒
@@princevegeta3859 Exactly
Quick thing. Menlo Park is *not* part of Palo Alto, its a completely separate city
@Jon H Diff county too.
Nice campus setting new corporate trends. 👍
Nice FB village.
Let's see what happens to *that place in 100 years.* Will it become a museum of the FB world ?
OR THE LARGEST TRASH FIRE ON EARTH RESPONSIBLE FOR WRECKING DEMOCRACY IN 2016?
Could go either way
U r just an Envy boy
Obliviously this didn’t help the millions of cyber security breaches
Very interesting.
GOD BLESS YOU MARK. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU.
😂
Good design but it kind of lacks consideration for the bay area housing crisis. Great, people are happy at work but they're pissed off driving to work or driving home because of traffic. The whole affordable housing is a start but unless it is high density then it won't do much. I think these tech companies need to start pioneering new forms of housing structures, like underground housing. You could build up but so many people in that area would be in the "don't block my view" crowd that it isn't really feasible to build up. Underground housing might be an interesting concept.
please block my view of smog please!! underground housing would work if we didn't' live on the bay. we must build up or water may seep in. especially if there's liquefaction from earthquake.
Sounds like a great concept for blackouts :P
god no, say hi to claustrophobia and no sunlight at all!
All jokes aside, it can be done but they would need hella backup on power and lighting down there. It's good to dream big and anything is possible.
Then live in a house vehicle, like a converted bus or small home or converted camper. That's what I would do. I don't want a big house and I love the idea of waking up at work. Coffee, shower, I'm here. Ta-da.
Walt Disney created something like this years ago, and it failed spectacularly. Facebook, it's only a matter of time.
Epcot Centre right?, I think he died before it was completed. And was eventually turned into a theme-park. Steve Jobs was going for the same idea when he commissioned the Apple Campus 2. The idea of company towns, Most acceptable way for corporations to own people.
How are you?
can you help me
My Facebook account was closed to me
I don't know how to get it back
My account holds my degree that I earned at the university
my files
My photos and memories
Please hope you help me
I have the honor
that’s walt disney not facebook
Now there’s mpk 22 another huge campus currently being built
Love the video! Could you make one on Google?