The World Mourns Steve Jobs With Facebook Eulogies

Posts mourning the passing of Steve Jobs are going up on Facebook once every second as of this writing.

Posts mourning the passing of Steve Jobs are going up on Facebook once every second as of this writing.

These posts began hitting the social network the moment the news of his death broke.

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg posted a eulogy to the Apple founder as a status update, thanking Jobs for being a mentor and friend.

Zuckerberg’s post elicited 47,484 likes and 3,879 within ten minutes of hitting the site.

Many of the shares of Zuckerberg’s status update include miniature elegies and links to Jobs’ public speeches, including the one he gave at 2005 Stanford graduation (we’ve embedded a video of it below).

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