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" Facebook Inc. filed for an initial public offering that could value the company at between $75 billion to $100 billion, putting the eight-year-old social network on track to be one of the biggest Web stock market debuts of all time, even as it tries to keep up with skyhigh expectations"
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Is it good for anything in Farmville?
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None.
It will be worth less than myspace in 2 years. Myspace was once valued in the range of 65 billion, now it's worth maybe 1/10th of 1% of that.
Way to go Murdoch. 
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lulz. Zero.
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Ptilk posted:
None.
It will be worth less than myspace in 2 years. Myspace was once valued in the range of 65 billion, now it's worth maybe 1/10th of 1% of that.
Way to go Murdoch.
they said the same thing about a little company called Apple
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Nah.
Apple makes stuff in sweatshops in the 3rd world then sells them at hugely inflated prices to idiots in the first world.
Facebook sells information about it's users and ads based upon the number of those users.
Totally different business models. The first is a tried and tested way to make billions. The second is a tried and tested way to become irrelevant and meaningless when the next new thing comes out.
It's possible they might stick around and be popular for long enough to make some cash off their stock, but I think the trend has already turned against them. Advances in adblocking software has already drastically cut into their income...and that's just going to continue to get worse.
Ad based revenue isn't a sustainable business model if you are actually hosting the site the ads are being viewed on.
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I might try it and dump it at any sign of droppage.
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Ick... no way. I don't see it as a possibility for that stock to go anywhere but down in the long run.
Now, if it had been offered when the site first started picking up traction... 
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I put some into it.
I plan on selling in about 6 months.
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Ptilk posted:
Ad based revenue isn't a sustainable business model if you are actually hosting the site the ads are being viewed on.
i disagree 100%
850,000,000 users = money
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Maybe if I traded a lot but as a long term stock option? No way
Though if I traded stocks pretty regularly and played the market for sure. Facebook has quite a few more years ahead of it until it, thankfully, falls off the face of the earth
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Users that whine, users that complain, and users that WILL leave as soon as the next big thing comes along. They're fickle. Just look at Myspace. These social networking sites exist as flashes in the pan and when you have 850,000,000 million users, how much more can you possibly grow? I think the result will be them doing things that are more invasive, more calculated, more upsetting to users when they find out, and inspire a competitor to get rolling that much quicker.
I'm not touching their stock.
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the stock is short term for sure
but still, get in quick, ride it up then dump it
people make a lot like this
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At IPO? Nothing. IPOs rarely make money for anyone but the owner and those buying in before sales go public.
When it starts to crash a few weeks or months out and people start panicking, I might pick some up...
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Depends if any makes it into my 401k or not
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Dark_EternalFF posted:
Depends if any makes it into my 401k or not
I'm betting that for 99% of your average Joe Schmoe investors, this would be the ONLY way they would get a piece of the action. Seems with IPOs this big it isn't like your average buyer can just go on Sharetrade, E-trade, whatever-trade and buy shares. Mostly high end investors will get the option to buy in, we won't.
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notmforce2k posted:
lulz. Zero.
I have not ever bought anything from there or paid a dime for anything from/on Facebook. I've never played Mafia Wars, Farmville, Cityville, or any other game. Where, or how, is Facebook getting any revenue from me?
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once Facebook figures out how to monetize the mobile market (read: put ads on mobile devices) it's going to blow up. Currently, there are zero adverts on the mobile version of facebook.
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I thought there was only 1 to buy.
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FineYoungCannibals posted:
Ptilk posted:
Ad based revenue isn't a sustainable business model if you are actually hosting the site the ads are being viewed on.
i disagree 100%
850,000,000 users = money
For real. 3.5 billion in revenues says it is a real business.
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Zero at the outset.
After the IPO fervor/bubble dies down, I may bottom feed if the company looks like it will rebound.
Does Priceline ring a bell to anyone? Anyone remember that IPO?
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Cawlin posted:
Zero at the outset.
After the IPO fervor/bubble dies down, I may bottom feed if the company looks like it will rebound.
Does Priceline ring a bell to anyone? Anyone remember that IPO?
Another company's IPO has nothing to do with Facebook.
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