That's the concept behind the Global Good Challenge, a new initiative to grab the Facebook generation's attention.
"The new generation -- the Facebook generation -- is totally determined, " he said.
The Facebook generation has its priorities well-established: These folks care about themselves first, and after that friends and family.
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But the Ball affair also opens a much-needed dialogue as the Facebook Generation starts entering politics and establishing themselves in the workforce.
Instead, as Ball hinted at in her statement following the release of her photos: with the Facebook Generation growing up, it might be high time we acknowledge that everyone has a past full of skeletons and move past it.
Perhaps as Generation Facebook grows up, the virtual parent-child relationship will sort itself out.
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The "holds" issued Wednesday show "how much uncertainty there is with Facebook's revenue-generation business model, " said Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, who also said tough market conditions may have been a contributing factor.
Caterpillar reports that this is a major process improvement as their current generation of customers are adopting Facebook as a platform to learn about new products.
Although their generation is more focused on Facebook than email, the demographic of those expressing an interest in their cause seem to have responded better to email than social media.
Above all we cannot tell how the next Middle East generation - caricatured now as the Facebook revolutionaries - will write the story.
And Facebook enjoys the highest profile of the recent generation of Web firms, with an audience of more than 900 million users globally, which by itself would make it the third-most-populous nation in the world.
Yahoo groups is dying and a new generation of users will move to the facebook approach (imeem just announced music deal with Warner).
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In addition, FiOS TV offers an innovative Interactive Media Guide with next-generation, personalized interactive services, including free Facebook and Twitter social media applications, news and entertainment widgets, ESPN Fantasy Football, a robust search engine, and many other features.
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Indeed, Facebook and Twitter kept me abreast, with thousands of status updates from my generation about the latest breaking news.
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Among them is 27-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, a founder of Facebook, proof that America's giving gene has passed to the next generation.
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Rather, Wall Street investors are betting on what Facebook will do in the future in terms of influencing and transforming the next generation of commerce.
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As the focus of Facebook strategies transitions from social engagement and fan acquisition to social commerce and revenue generation, entertainment and lifestyle companies are beginning to package their digital content in a social experience and deliver it through the global reach of Facebook.
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Caterpillar Inc. is using separate Facebook sites to serve the information needs of various customer segments and constituencies including construction, power generation, paving, and financial services.
You can bet that this generation will be wary of ending up like a Weiner, a Lee or a Petraeus through Facebook and social media.
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You can only trim shots and extract stills from that latter mode, but paired with the newer generation EasyShare functionality that lets you pre-assign photos and videos for upload to YouTube and Facebook, among other services, you can almost completely avoid using your computer as anything but a dumb pipe to the internet.
The VCs agreed that Facebook must make mobility excel if they are going to grow, otherwise they will be overtaken by next-generation social networks in five years or less.
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Facebook on Thursday announced that it will work with environmental group Greenpeace to encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation while creating programs to help its users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions.
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