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MILFBook!

Owen Thomas — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Most of Facebook's adult supervision gave the Facebook Prom a skip, we hear. But not recently hired Google execs Elliot Schrage, now Facebook's top flack, and Sheryl Sandberg, the formidable new COO who's revising Facebook's internal social graph day by day. We heard Schrage and Sandberg were tight at Google, but close enough for this "me-and-my-bitches" pose captured at the Facebook Prom event held two weeks ago? (Camille Hart, Sandberg's assistant, is on the left; she also followed Sandberg to Facebook.) Suggest a caption in the comments, and the best will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: abmw, for "They never have enough restrooms in these Apple Stores."

Inside the Facebook Prom

Owen Thomas — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:45:11 EDT

It's true: Facebook held a prom for its employees in San Francisco last night at the Metreon. The shopping mall-cineplex's fourth floor was tastefully decorated with white flowers, and the gathered Facebookers were dressed up — and so youthful, you might think it was an actual prom, save for the booze being poured at the open bars. (Ubiquitous photographee Julia Allison, who was invited, did not attend, staying in New York for a book party instead.) Why throw a prom? Facebook is going all-out for prom season this year, with a tie-in to Sony's Prom Night and a prom-dress partnership with Sears. Why not reward employees working on prom marketing campaigns with a throwback prom of their own?

But besides the commercial rationale, there's a more disturbing reason for Facebook to throw a prom for its employees. With its cafeterias, gyms, and volleyball courts, Google likes to makes its employees feel like they never left college. Could Facebook be trying to make its workers feel like they never left high school? Infantilization is an effective employee-retention program. But it is not a particularly attractive one.

More pictures from Facebook's prom.

Facebook has a prom and Julia Allison will be attending

Nicholas Carlson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:40:00 EDT

Congratulations, Facebookers! Notorious New York nobody and Silicon Alley wantrepreneur Julia Allison plans to grace your "Facebook Prom" with her presence. She twitters:

OMG. I just got invited to the Facebook Prom!!!! No, not by @randijayne, although I'm sure she's going to be jealous of my superhot date ;)

Obviously, Allison is after the prom queen crown, enough that she's willing to elbow Facebook marketer Randi Zuckerberg out of the way if need be, despite having just attended her Vegas bachelorette party. Send us photos of Facebook's other contenders.