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In the discussion thread: Facebook falls to half of public offering price [View all]

Response to Occulus (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 11:31 PM

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6. Facebook is a fad. Google is attempting to own the Internet.

They are testing the waters of being data pipeline and data controller.

They need to be broken up.

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38 replies	Author	Time	Post
Facebook falls to half of public offering price [View all]	Omaha Steve	Aug 2012	OP
Cool. When it drops to penny stock status I might buy a few thousand shares just	kestrel91316	Aug 2012	#1
The sheep got sheared/	Fuddnik	Aug 2012	#2
they sure did	Liberal_in_LA	Aug 2012	#11
Everyone's Facebook pages are simply not worth that much.	vkkv	Aug 2012	#15
I hope this is the beginning of the end. I detest Facebook.	virgogal	Aug 2012	#3
+1	bupkus	Aug 2012	#18
my feeling as well. I just cannot describe why, exactly.	ChairmanAgnostic	Aug 2012	#20
I am sick sick SICK of facebook	Skittles	Aug 2012	#26
+1, FB seems so invasive. I don't group up with the guppies too well and with	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#27
Google will fail next.	onehandle	Aug 2012	#4
No, Google does one hell of a lot more than that	Occulus	Aug 2012	#5
Facebook is a fad. Google is attempting to own the Internet.	onehandle	Aug 2012	#6
Pretty much.	JackRiddler	Aug 2012	#7
One of the smartest Googlers from the time when they did innovation just became Yahoo's CEO	onehandle	Aug 2012	#19
goggle+? hmm. never heard of it. Ooops, GOOgle.	ChairmanAgnostic	Aug 2012	#21
You can yahoo her.	David Zephyr	Aug 2012	#24
Savy observation, onehandle. Yahoo's sitting in a very good position now.	David Zephyr	Aug 2012	#23
Facebook and Google are opposites. The Wall Street sheep herd never understood that. They still do	BlueStreak	Aug 2012	#10
CIA venture funding started up Google...	AntiFascist	Aug 2012	#25
Exactly!!! And, I'm always amazed at how many don't understand that what is	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#28
Case in point...	AntiFascist	Aug 2012	#30
Exactly...	malokvale77	Aug 2012	#31
And Peter Thiel of In-Q-Tel was the key VC "angel" for Facebook.	JackRiddler	Aug 2012	#36
This post was hidden by jury decision.	cottonseed	Aug 2012	#32
I have never clicked on one ad on Facebook.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#8
I'm the only person on a social networking/blogging site who will admit to liking facebook?	XemaSab	Aug 2012	#9
I hate facebook	Liberal_in_LA	Aug 2012	#12
Where is the button for like this thread	jsr	Aug 2012	#13
Suckers. nt	SunSeeker	Aug 2012	#14
lol	iamthebandfanman	Aug 2012	#16
As much as I hate Wall Street..	sendero	Aug 2012	#17
A good growth company like FB should be worth 20x earnings.	banned from Kos	Aug 2012	#22
Absolutely. That should be the starting point for valuation.	BlueStreak	Aug 2012	#33
I heard MySpace is coming back into fad!	DontTreadOnMe	Aug 2012	#29
"Like"	TeamPooka	Aug 2012	#34
I'm experiencing Schadenfriende	Sabriel	Aug 2012	#35
So a super-hyped company that produces basically nothing and which lost a big	petronius	Aug 2012	#37
This was a sucker bet from the door.	MrSlayer	Aug 2012	#38

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