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NutmegCT said:
Doc :iagree:

If FB users pay nothing for the FB services, where do FB ads fit in the revenue stream?

Tom
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As has been said a couple of times recently, if it is free, you aren't the customer, you're the product
 
So - where does FB get its revenue?

T.
 
Just saw FB trading below $27 on the ticker! Man, this is brutal! Glad I didn't jump on this one!
 
NutmegCT said:
So - where does FB get its revenue?

T.
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There are ads down the side of its main panel (called "sponsors"). Also, it sells your information as a data-miner of hundreds of millions of people (which is worth a fair bit).
 
TOC said:
...two days ago got a "status update" from a friend...except we buried him almost two months ago.
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I have received a "status update" from a deceased friend, but it was done by the son of the deceased informing the friends of the gratitude of the family for the thoughts, prayers, and cards. I did not know the son, so it is the only way I would have received this notice. The same has happened on yahoo groups email lists, so that the family can get funeral arrangements to friends more efficiently. It could be done here too.

But once the person is past, it is weird getting a birthday announcement via FB if the family never closes the deceased's account...
 
Ads...and if you use FB Purity, you kill off 100% of the ads, full stop. Ad to that ABP (Ad Blocker Plus), and you kill off every data miner, too.
FB keeps trying to kill off FB Purity, blocking them, calling them spam, virus spreading....none of which it is.
Been late last year, when they changed a bunch of stuff, I loaded both. No wonder their advertising revenue has dropped off!
 
I've been watching, it's been in free fall all morning, just entered 26 range, down today 4-1/2% so far. We might hit actual worth and value this week.
 
Lots of folks buying last couple of hours. Up to 29 now. Guess they figured it had dropped enough at high 26 to be a bargain.
 
aerog said:
I'm not particularly a fan of Facebook, but it's hardly "air".
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OK, so it isn't "air", it's <span style="font-style: italic">Hot Air.</span>
 
It's not air. It's "1"'s and "0"'s
 
Interesting to watch the NASDAQ graph. At 4PM last night, BIG spike after several hours of slow increase. Did "investors" (suckers) think it was going to continue to rise? And bought in just before the bell?
Same thing happened 24 hours earlier.
Today, it looks like they found it wasn't, and its been a slow sell-off all morning.
It's almost like investors are trying to wish the price to go up.
29.5 to start, 27.75 now, and dropping.
 
Tuesday, 1540 NY time, 25.99 and still dropping like a Chevrolet Truck.
 
New low of $ 25.75, down 4.08% today alone.
Boy, the pundits are really going at it.
Predicting the fall and disappearance of FB, the "saving" of FB by Apple.....
 
As long as Zuckerberg owns 50% or more, he'll continue to laugh all the way to the bank (even as he's losing hundreds of millions).
 
What we have here, is a failure to communicate.

"Underwriters Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs all warned Zuckerberg before the IPO that the company was overvalued, but that the information was 'selectively disclosed' to only the social network's largest investors, the lawsuit added."

Zuckerberg sells early
 
Amazing, the amount of press this is getting here...
 
I think it's just an offshoot of the attention it's getting everywhere.

This was supposed to be the biggest IPO ever. Even the state of California was greedily wringing it's hands thinking of all the tax dollars they'd receive.
 
Another 1.86% today down. Lowest so far. Volume of trades is going down every day, like most folks have taken their loss and bailed.
Down now 30% from initial opening.
Some pundits are saying to buy now. Others say we haven't even come close to bottom.
After-hours has stayed flat.
NASDAQ seems to have "adjusted" their graph, to be more room between whole numbers, adding in fraction markers, makes it look "not so bad".
Right.
 
my fave bubble-head said:
Some pundits are saying to buy now. Others say we haven't even come close to bottom.
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It's all gambling. Pick yer ~point~ an' jump! :jester:
 
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