Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook.com held a joint press conference today at the Dunkin' Donuts Centre in Providence RI to discuss problems threatening all three businesses, and to inform the public of great misconceptions about the websites.
Said Bezos in the CEOs joint opening statement, "In short, Amazon.com is not a free trip to the rainforest, Facebook is not just a book of faces, eBay is not an electronic body of water, and USA Today is a waste of trees."
Shock filled the auditorium as people learned that eBay itself contained no water at all, and was in fact, a website in which people can buy and sell goods online.
"Then why didn't you call it eBuy?" a reporter asked.
"Well" Whitman explained calmly, "We were going to name it Echo Bay but the domain name was taken."
"But that makes even less sense!" the reporter replied, "I'm so confused."
"And what's with Amazon.com?" another correspondent asked, "That has nothing to do with an online store."
"You see, we originally just sold books" said Bezos, "And the Amazon is the world's most voluminous river. I suppose it was a pun what with volume and everything."
"Why not Amazon Books then? Amazonstore.com?"
"I dunno, I suppose it just didn't come to mind, I didn't think people would get so confused over the matter."
Mark Zuckerberg was not very happy over the events that had occurred, stating that in an age of technology, progress, and constant change, people simply take things too literally.
"Facebook is one of the biggest online social networks in existence, and I'm sick and tired of people thinking that it's just a book of faces. It's a whole lot more than that, really."
The three CEOs summed up by warning of the dangers of taking things too literally and encouraging all to think less about the name and more about the services provided by the website, hoping this conference would clear up all future misconceptions.
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