&gt; If Fb goes the MySpace way, how much is that donation worth?<p>If Fb goes the Google way and its value continues to go up, the donation will be worth more. It&#x27;s true that the donation is of unclear value. But calling it $45 billion is a way to communicate the scope of the pledge that they&#x27;ve committed to.<p>&gt; Secondly there appears to be a duality between how the company operates and what this post tries to rally for.<p>It&#x27;s important to distinguish between the behavior of a person and the behavior of Facebook, Inc. Every time the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates foundation does something, we don&#x27;t get dozens of people rising out of the woodwork harping on Microsoft&#x27;s unethical business practices - but Bill Gates&#x27; mid-90s Microsoft was definitely on par with Facebook at its worst. It&#x27;s <i>okay</i> to celebrate good things done, as long as we don&#x27;t fully forget how we got there. We should continue to criticize Facebook as a company even as we recognize that the individual here is attempting something great.<p>&gt; Finally, using the pretense of writing a letter to their newly born daughter rubs some the wrong way.<p>It&#x27;s a pretty easy and effective rhetorical device. The letter is obviously targeted at the world, or he wouldn&#x27;t have published it. But it&#x27;s a good way to present some emotional framing - this is why he cares so much, why he&#x27;s invested in a better world. Not all attempts to inspire pathos in the reader are rooted in evil, it&#x27;s just a tool for effective writing.