Facebook

[DJD]

The FBI and CIA ought buy out Facebook, without public notice, to covertly collect people face pictures for recognition purposes.

FB.......FBI........?

Okay, I have to go now because I think the Japanese are building an airstrip in the alfalfa field south of Elizabethtown to stage future bombing raids on Glasgow.

Hahahahahah!! OMG you caught me off guard with that one!

[HURRICANEBOB]

So facebook goes public, and then the stock tumbles. Today I get these neat little facebook notices where they want me to give them my cell phone number (supposedly to aid log in) and then a note saying I have an assigned facebook email account, and if I want I can chnage it to another one. I read that as "Give us your REAL email account". Me thinks they are trying to collect more info so they can sell it. Me thinks if this stuff continues, me might just go back to sending emails to my friends. What ya think?

[Chubminnow]

In the first or second sentence of my first post on this thread I questioned how they put a dollar amount on Facebook (electronic communications in general)...so what, people get on there, look at faces of friends or whatever...what's it worth? Apparently not $38.00 dollars per share like the guru's were originally thinking....Plus now it looks like there may be some scandulous and shady dealings just prior to Facebook going public.

[jcb]

So facebook goes public, and then the stock tumbles. Today I get these neat little facebook notices where they want me to give them my cell phone number (supposedly to aid log in) and then a note saying I have an assigned facebook email account, and if I want I can chnage it to another one. I read that as "Give us your REAL email account". Me thinks they are trying to collect more info so they can sell it. Me thinks if this stuff continues, me might just go back to sending emails to my friends. What ya think?

The only thing Facebook has to sell to other people is YOU.

[Tim_T]

Facebook is valuable because of ad revenue. You buy an ad on there and you can bet 75-90% of your target audience will see it. In the magazine business, ad prices are set based on circulation, the higher circulation the more it cost to advertise. Imagine how many people are on Facebook.