I don't know about you guys but I don't NEED Facebook or have an account where you can get 1000 "friends" within a week.
I prefer Seabreeze where most people hate me. It's more fun.
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i had facebook, my first friend deleted me for linking him to gay porn
my girlfriend deleted me for linking her to gay porn
my sister deleted me for linking her to gay porn
whats the point of facebook if you can't link people to gay porn...?
You got it back to front Doc.
If you had linked them to pay gorn, you would have hit the mark.
People go to Facebook because their pay's gorn and Facebook is the best entertainment they can afford.
Wife FBs...I don't (I skype :-)
I mainly use skype for work & found it a very handy tool (file sending, chatting with colleagues, phone calls, screen share etc.) As for FB - I know my 'friends' and don't need to know if they 'like' stuff or not...I also don't want a bunch of 'acquaintances' & even people I don't know (or like) calling me their 'friend'.
Parents in the UK, sister in Vancouver, majority of family sprinkled around Europe.
Facebook is great for us to share photos and videos, it's far better than waiting for the 15Mb of photos my parents like to attach to emails when they want to show me something!
I really like facebook, works perfect for me with friends and family all over the planet.
Have also caught up with friends i haven't seen in years and can get to meet their kids feel part of their lives and vice versa.
At the end of the day its up to you what you put up and who you're friends with.
If you're in the habit of betting on the dog races then invest in facebook when it floats on the stock market.
At $100 billion it would mean every user is valued at $120. That is a ridiculously overpriced assessment. $10 per per user would be overpriced but maybe retrieveable. Anything more is a joke. 
The entire value of the company is the end user. i.e. YOU. And you can leave any time you like when something better comes on the market.
If something more trendy or fashionable comes up tomorrow the entire $100 billion is out the window.
That's not to say it wont go for more because people pay more than that for a cancelled postage stamp, and that has a real value of $0.00
as some one said
"i have so many friends that i haven't met yet"
when the everyone jumps off to go somewhere else or just gets bored with it, it will be worthless, or maybe take a zero or two off the value, haha
YouTube, Twitter, and FaceBook are about to merge under Facebook, that's why Facebook's value is going through the roof. They will completely control that arena.
It will now be called YouTwitFace.com
He knocked back a 27 billion offer from microsoft ! Gutsy effort !!!! I would have taken that and run !!!!! 
"Facebook recently paid $X billion for the photo sharing app Instagram. Don't they realise you can download it for free?"
I remember hearing that from some bloke on ABC radio a few weeks back when they bought it.
They will spam you with advertising that your interested in.... A more direct and effective approach to advertising. Switch kites do it on Facebook all day long with their "Wanna be a rider for switch?"
I don't....but reality is if you don't like it don't sign up. Advertising will get its fingers into the pie one way or another.
If you can't say no to an advertisement or your that material, God help you.
Sorry no talking about religion. Oops!
I see FB increased the size of it IPO by 25 % this week and increased the float price to $38.00.
Yet Apple makes more $$ per month than FB does in a year.
Caveat Emptor as our Latino friends like to say....
Wow! Facebook shares now at $33. 
That's an amazing profit of minus $5 for all those who splashed out and bought them 3 or 4 days ago at $38 in the IPO.
Well! Whoever would have thought that?
apart from me I mean.
When they get to $3.80 they might be a good buy.
No you sold on open, you didnt buy..
uncovered if you have the balls or option protection if you want some protection..
So the % lost actually becomes the percentage gained... This is what a lot of hedge funds would do and hence make money on the downside... And worse case if you have the option is you close out and lose nothing more than the transaction cost and the option premium...
So is investing your hard earned in a company supposedly valued at $100 billion that has probably less than $10 million in physical, saleable assets and whose value is based on the habits of the electronic herd, a good idea????
well you could sell them short but then you are exposed to any upside movements....what SP is suggesting is that you buy an option (put) - a right to sell a given amount at a given price - so if the market goes against you you lose the amount you paid for the option (so your losses are limited to the value of the premium) whilst you have potentially unlimited upside potential if the shares head south. The real price of this strategy is the volatility that you pay for. In recent months Vols had come off significantly which would have made this trade technically a belter. But there were other issues to consider. Not to mention the technical difficulties of shorting a stock before its listed. Although lots of IB's would underwrite this for you....at a price. The stock though did rally strongly off the opening bell with all the excitement, so there was plenty of opportunity to exit if you had been long. Normally the IPO price is set to leave upside opportunity for the initial investors to exit at a reasonable profit. This time round it was not done - they reset the expected issue price above the initial range that they marketed the stock at. Then to compound things further one of the insto's supporting the listing issued a price downgrade a few days before hand but this was not seen by everyone. Illegal and severely frowned upon. This will cause considerable grief going forward. Add in the European issues and things went form bad to worse very quickly.
