Facebook Trade

jonbig04 · May 13, 2008

Finally some people on my side chime in. facebook is superior to myspace in all sorts of ways. I know a lot of people who have both myspace and facebook and prefer facebook. Facebook is a little more mature than myspace, and a more intelligent.

As far as add potential goes, Im no expert, but I do have one example. I have a facebook account. There are all sorts of applications you can download for your page which are free. sounds stupid, but its not. The one I have is simply a map of the world. You put pins on all the places you have been and you also put pins on places you plan to go. I'm planning to go to Vegas in july so i have a pin there. Yesterday I get an email with all sorts of help info and LINKS to vegas related travel sites etc. Like i said Im not expert, but Im sure there is big potential when a company can target VERY specific people with very particular interests. IE going to Vegas in july.

ryanturri · May 13, 2008

Quote from xxxskier:

facebook is more then a fad. but it is getting ahead of itself.

msft really showed their desperation when they ponied up 240M to get a 1.5% stake, which values it at 15B. facebook only has a few hundred million in revenue (and most of that is from a large gauranteed ad buy from msft.......i know because i have friends who work at facebook).

anyone who understands the digital media knows that "social networking" sites are very low on ad buyers lists. just look at my space....the CPMs (how ads are priced) are rock bottom.

facebook has great traffic, but they still haven't hit on a recipe to monetize all that traffic.

Only smart guy in this thread.

I can't believe how some of the rest of you talk out of your a$$es. Just make up some numbers or pull them out of the air, they don't have to be relevant to anything. Knuckleheads. Please dont post if you're that ignorant.

stock_trad3r · May 13, 2008

If this goes IPO its gonna be huge. No doubt. I really hope it does go public cause I know I'll make a killing.

shortie · May 13, 2008

Quote from stock_trad3r:

Facebook is worth 30 billion easily. If it goes public I will sell everything and put all my money it it with 30% margin. Not kidding.

What is Facebook?

5yrtrader · May 13, 2008

Quote from jonbig04:

Finally some people on my side chime in. facebook is superior to myspace in all sorts of ways. I know a lot of people who have both myspace and facebook and prefer facebook. Facebook is a little more mature than myspace, and a more intelligent.

This is the point a number of people have made. Before myspace it was friendster, soon another better social networking site will pop up and everyone will move to that from facebook and myspace won't be used at all. These sites are way over-valued, I give their shelf life about 5 years before they become dinosaurs, how much ad revenue can you make in that time?

5yr

stock_trad3r · May 14, 2008

Quote from 5yrtrader:

This is the point a number of people have made. Before myspace it was friendster, soon another better social networking site will pop up and everyone will move to that from facebook and myspace won't be used at all. These sites are way over-valued, I give their shelf life about 5 years before they become dinosaurs, how much ad revenue can you make in that time?

5yr

Completely wrong. Google and yahoo have been around for 10 years. Why hasn't something 'better' taken over?

I know how things work.

jonbig04 · May 24, 2009

http://www.cnbc.com/id/30901888

mister_doodi · May 24, 2009

Quote from xxxskier:

msft really showed their desperation when they ponied up 240M to get a 1.5% stake, which values it at 15B. facebook only has a few hundred million in revenue (and most of that is from a large gauranteed ad buy from msft.......i know because i have friends who work at facebook).

240 million is nothing for MSFT. Even if it costs double that MSFT would have paid it to get their foot into the door before GOOG did.

mister_doodi · May 24, 2009

Quote from ryanturri:

Only smart guy in this thread.

I can't believe how some of the rest of you talk out of your a$$es. Just make up some numbers or pull them out of the air, they don't have to be relevant to anything. Knuckleheads. Please dont post if you're that ignorant.

You sound like one of those defenders of penny stocks on Yahoo message board that can't take criticism of your precious little stock.

There is quite a bit of history in social networking. Xanga.com used to be popular and around 2006 Myspace caught up to them in popularity and and subsequent years destroyed them. Same thing can easily happen with Facebook.

And on another note Myspace and Facebook are not one and two on Asia, South America, and Europe. Just like how Google is not #1 in China.