Facebook worth 60 billion someday?

that's not my point. I had said earlier in the thread that Facebook is priceless because it has the power to change the world. Believe it
 
Thought this chart might be of interest.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

the popularity of facebook appears to be leveling off. That chart shows facebook searches in google.

You'll notice the majority of the people searching are from non US areas. I believe this can be a proxy to show how many new users are searching for facebook on google first before either signing up, logging on, or whatever. Therefore, the amount of new people searching for facebook to signup appears to be leveling off on a worldwide scale.

If facebook is valued at around 50 billion, ill assume it wont' be worth that much more unless fb can find a way to increase the revenue from the site. The revenue per visitor is currently pathetic.

This chart, however, does not show the people that end up directly typing in facebook.com to login, as opposed to going through google.com then facebook.com

I also added myspace's and twitters chart for comparison.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=myspace&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

http://www.google.com/trends?q=twitter&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
 
promoters claim value of facebook showed in lybia and similar. Facebook got the credit for uprising, i think. Dont worry about adds revenue. they dont work.

Idea is to portrait facebook at some kind of weapon. Like in olden days they threw karl marx books out of trains on selected country to remove elite class.

it is possible to work if they make it into cult site... bit of work there but can be donse, see example of karl marx books.
 
"Saudi Women Inspired by Fall of Mubarak Step Up Equality Demand
By Donna Abu-Nasr - Mar 28, 2011 3:00 PM PT

Saudi Women Step Up Equality Demand

A Saudi woman walks near "Al-Rajhi mosque" in central Riyadh. Photographer: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images
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March 24 (Bloomberg) -- James Rickards, senior managing director for Omnis Inc., talks about the political unrest in Libya, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Rickards speaks with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness." (Source: Bloomberg)

Activists among Saudi Arabia’s women, who can’t drive or vote and need male approval to work and travel, are turning to the type of online organizing that helped topple Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to force change in a system they say treats them like children.

The “Baladi” or “My Country” campaign is focused on this year’s municipal elections, only the second nationwide ballot that the absolute monarchy has allowed. The election board yesterday said women will be excluded from the Sept. 22 vote. Another group, the Saudi Women’s Revolution, citing inspiration from the Arab activism that grew into revolts against Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, is pressing for equal treatment and urging international support.

The wave of anti-regime protests that spread from Tunisia and Egypt into some of Saudi Arabia’s Persian Gulf neighbors, such as Bahrain and Oman, hasn’t translated into mass street demonstrations in the kingdom that holds the world’s biggest oil reserves. Saudi rulers have taken steps to ensure it won’t, pledging almost $100 billion of spending on homes, jobs and benefits. They also deployed thousands of police in Riyadh on March 11, when a protest was planned by Internet organizers -- a group that increasingly includes Saudi women.

“Women are raised to fear men and to fear speaking out,” said Mona al-Ahmed, a 25-year-old in the coastal city of Jeddah. She said she joined the Women’s Revolution campaign after her brother refused to let her take her dream job, as a biochemist, because it would involve working in a mixed-gender environment. “I opened my eyes one day and said, ‘This is not the life I want’,” al-Ahmed said in a phone interview.
Least Democratic State

Like other opposition and protest groups in Saudi Arabia, the women’s movement faces a tough task. The kingdom ranked as the least democratic state in the Middle East, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2010 Democracy Index.

“Women will not participate in this session,” Abdul- Rahman al-Dahmash, director of the kingdom’s electoral commission, said at a press conference yesterday, referring to the municipal balloting. “There is a plan, though not with a definite time, to put in place a framework so that women can participate in upcoming elections.”

Baladi said on its Facebook page that Saudi women “are like other women in the world who have hopes and ambitions” and must be allowed to vote.

While Saudi Arabia was placed in the top one-third of nations in the United Nations 2010 Human Development Report -- higher than European Union member Bulgaria -- its score for gender equality was much lower. On that UN measure, which includes assessments of reproductive health and participation in politics and the labor market, the country ranked 128th of 138 nations, below Iran and Pakistan.
‘You Are Divorced’

Saudi Arabia enforces the Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam and its clerics say that requires strict segregation of the sexes, including in government offices, workplaces and public spaces such as restaurants. Other areas of discontent highlighted by women writers and activists include family law. A Saudi man can end his marriage by telling his wife, “You are divorced,” while women must go to a court or an authorized cleric to get a dissolution. Custody of children above a certain age is usually granted to the father.

Saudi Arabia is also one of the few countries that has a high rate of executions for women, Amnesty International said in a 2008 report. Adultery is among the capital offenses.

“Authorities continue to systematically suppress or fail to protect the rights of nine million Saudi women and girls,” Human Rights Watch said in a January report on the country. In an open letter to Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal two months earlier, the group urged his government to meet pledges it had made to “end the system of male guardianship over women, to give full legal identity to Saudi women, and to prohibit gender discrimination.”
‘Treated Like Minors’

Those are among the goals of the Women’s Revolution group, which began as an exchange of Twitter messages among likeminded women, and now has more than 2,000 Facebook supporters. “Women are treated like minors, except if they commit a crime,” the group said in a statement on Facebook. “Then they are equal.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...ainst-mubarak-go-online-to-seek-equality.html

Facebook can change the world. This is the tip of the iceberg
 
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Facebook can change the world. This is the tip of the iceberg
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I think Facebook shows transparency, good or bad. It's a slippery slope for sure.
 
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