Investing in Facebook...is a bargain (at any price!)
Charles
· 1 year ago
How do you invest in Facebook as a private individual ? Where do you go or turn to ?
David
· 2 years ago
The only thing we can say for sure is that they are not offering it to the millions of users who have built the value of the company
...although personally I am on a twelve step program to deal with a Facebook affliction and wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole
Lois
· 2 years ago
There is one thing that will burst the bubble. Facebook.
Facebook's outrageous valuation (especially for a company without a revenue model) will totally crash the market when people get tired of it or when traffic drops for facebooks just like MySpace or when people start to realise that it does not live up to its hype. It is sad as it will effect a lot of other companies and startups who may have a better revenue model compared to FB.
The only thing that might solve this is a complete buy out of FB as it will totally reduce the hype and save the industry. Just like YouTube. Notice that after the acquisation of You Tube, there have been less coverage and hype of YouTube. That is what needs to happen to FB to save the industry.
David
· 2 years ago
I don't think merely buying Facebook will prevent the bubble that seems increasingly likely, it will merely feed it.
Yes there has been less coverage and hype about YouTube since it was bought, but the hasn't gone away, merely moved onto other topics, i.e., facebook. The web 2.0 bubble is going to keep going for a while yet, and if Facebook is bought for an outrageous sum it can only feed it more.
Pete
· 2 years ago
I suspect there is some truth to the theory that an acquisition would have killed some of the hype. It's the long term possibility of an IPO that means there's really no end to where the hype will stop.
andymurd
· 2 years ago
Interesting. Facebook's database of it's users' relationships is undoubtably worth a fortune and I understand that it's making money from advertising revenue but I'm still sceptical about a valuation involving that many zeros.
Google's other social networking aquisition, Bebo, hasn't had the success of FB or MySpace and investment would seem a good fit - but the most interesting question is what would Facebook do with $1.5 billion? Pay off the shareholders, reinvest in new technologies?
Jamison
· 2 years ago
On one hand, I have to root for Google here. They are making strides in the tech world and leaving Microsoft behind, or at best, copying everyone else (No, I am not a Mac user lol). But at the same time, who cares? What is facebook? I have an account, but rarely use it due to the overwhelming complexity and "busy" look of it. Maybe Google could simplify it a bit.
Martin
· 2 years ago
Valuing facebook that high is ridiculous. Hasn't anyone realized yet that giant social networks kinda have a shelf life? Murdoch paid $500+ million for myspace yet its profit in the past year was only $10 million and now its traffic is dropping.
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...although personally I am on a twelve step program to deal with a Facebook affliction and wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole
Facebook's outrageous valuation (especially for a company without a revenue model) will totally crash the market when people get tired of it or when traffic drops for facebooks just like MySpace or when people start to realise that it does not live up to its hype. It is sad as it will effect a lot of other companies and startups who may have a better revenue model compared to FB.
The only thing that might solve this is a complete buy out of FB as it will totally reduce the hype and save the industry. Just like YouTube. Notice that after the acquisation of You Tube, there have been less coverage and hype of YouTube. That is what needs to happen to FB to save the industry.
Yes there has been less coverage and hype about YouTube since it was bought, but the hasn't gone away, merely moved onto other topics, i.e., facebook. The web 2.0 bubble is going to keep going for a while yet, and if Facebook is bought for an outrageous sum it can only feed it more.
Google's other social networking aquisition, Bebo, hasn't had the success of FB or MySpace and investment would seem a good fit - but the most interesting question is what would Facebook do with $1.5 billion? Pay off the shareholders, reinvest in new technologies?