Is Facebook Really Worth $100 Billion?

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Short answer? No. Long answer? Hell no! If I were Zuckerberg, right after the IPO I would cash out to "pursue other interests" before Facebook pulls a MySpace.

That’s the question many people are asking amid rising chatter that the booming social network plans to go public in 2012 and raise up to $10 billion in a deal that could value the company at more than $100 billion.
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Insane...

Really insane. lol

No product, free service.. $100,000,000,000 valuation?

Pop goes the bubble... Myspace part deux. lol
 
figgie said:
Insane...

Really insane. lol

No product, free service.. $100,000,000,000 valuation?

Pop goes the bubble... Myspace part deux. lol
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Shows you don't understand what Facebook does.

Remember this:
If you find yourself legally not paying for a good, you are the good being sold.
 
The problem with "value" like this, is if you did want to make a big cashout, you couldn't because as soon as you put that many shares out there the value drops.

That said, I'd sell my shares in a fucking heartbeat!
 
Nothing new here. Private company, every knows about it but not the financials. Goes public, then the real truth about what it actually generates in revenue and profit becomes clear, stock crashes but the company is still valued at a large chuck of change.
 
figgie said:
Insane...

Really insane. lol

No product, free service.. $100,000,000,000 valuation?

Pop goes the bubble... Myspace part deux. lol
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You know national TV networks are the same right? Free service, no real physical product.

People spend so much time on FB, its ridiculous. If you don't know how to extract $$ from that...you might need to go take a business class.
 
FB interface and many features are greatly bugged, just because of that I think it's real value is $5
 
Facebook makes money (I don't know if they're profitable though), and they have a business model (selling ads and personal data).

Still, the value is insane, and I don't see Facebook growing much more.
 
The value of Facebook is not really the company it's in the data logs of the hundreds of millions of people who very happily entered in all their personal data over the years which a data mining company would have a field day with.
 
Yeah, I see all that personal information on all the millions of people could be worth that money.
 
Some of you under-estimate all the moeny facebook makes.

Advertisers love it, plus you have all the facebook games from Farmville to others that rake in millions of dollars.
 
No it's just an fad, like MySpace etc., as soon as all the hype blows out share price will be back to $0.50
 
Maybe when the Facebook bubble bursts Justin Timberlake will run in and buy them out, too. Try to make Face Space.
 
Let them do it and i hope freaking few riches who keeps their money (like Steve Jobs) invests and gives something to government.

as far as worthing it goes, i won't buy it if they paid ME $1 for it.
 
scbjmshpv said:
Let them do it and i hope freaking few riches who keeps their money (like Steve Jobs) invests and gives something to government.

as far as worthing it goes, i won't buy it if they paid ME $1 for it.
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You do know that Steve Jobs died, right?

It's worth a lot, but I wouldn't say 100B. That's WAY too high.
 
If I were upper management, I'd cash out with a quickness. The company is worth a lot, yes, but no way in hell is it $100 billion
 
Not insane anymore, considering the huge demand for their primitive webapp platform...they could start charging for it tomorrow yet continue to expect merchants to provide their own infrastructure/software. It seems that they could easily become the world's leading provider of business software/analytics more or less by accident.

Or their can stay where they are and continue to collect valuable data in return for doing basically nothing. Every time someone figures out a new way to make an extra dollar off of Facebook, it's new user data for them and a direct improvement to their bottom line.
 
Stiler said:
Some of you under-estimate all the moeny facebook makes.

Advertisers love it, plus you have all the facebook games from Farmville to others that rake in millions of dollars.
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Did you know that millions of dollars is thousands of times less than billions of dollars?
 
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Absolutely no value to me.
 
i'd be cashing out while I was ahead as well.. I'd be happy with a billion or two... I wouldn't care if it were REALLY worth 100 Billion. It's just a matter of time... All social networks have a life span..
 
Well it kinda makes sense. 99% of people know what facebook is and have been on it at least once. The majority of those people probably go fairly regularly. We are talking the world here. Billions of people. Love it or hate it, it's a rather high traffic popular site.

But yeah between the ads, games etc, I'm sure it pulls in a decent amount of cash. I'm just kicking myself for not coming up with it before it existed. :p Not a complicated, or new concept.

I don't know why, but I could actually see Google buy it out at some point. Google Face. lol
 
I bet it would be worth $100 billion just for the vast amount of info it contains about everything and everyone.
 
Buy it when you can, take a long position, then when the cookie starts to crumble, short it. Should be a pretty exciting ride to the bottom.
 
Insane that this company is worth so much. Can't wait to see the financials on this overpriced turkey.
 
facebook's valuation largely reflects how much it's user's data are worth. as long as no government stant out to curb that data gathering. I see no reason why it should be less than 100 BN.
 
Tons of people willing to throw out all information about them as possible?

I'm definitely sure this is worth a lot, even 100 billion.

That said, I don't have a FB account. Never have, never will.
 
I choose not to book my face. No way is that BS worth 1 billion much less 100.
 
I'm just wondering how much the stock will initially pop before its inevitable demise. That's all I want to know. Anyone have a crystal ball?
 
Money does not smell.... :)

Facebook is intrinsically worthless to me, but I am sure as hell will be making money off of it.
 
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