Facebook: Greatest Pump and Dump?

[Liquid]

google's revenue is still 99% advertising through its search engine. They are still the primary search engine and it is still the biggest part of their business. The reason why facebook is failing is because big advertisers that support facebook are pulling their money away, like GM pulled away 25 million. Facebook does not work for big brands that want to advertise online .

I understand that, but at least google has expanded in other areas. that is my point, if search somehow no longer generates that kind of revenue google has several areas where they can fall back on.

That's why you hear about Facebook trying to get into the cellphone business. I wonder how that will turn out to be honest, they do have all the information needed to get started. It can possibly change the game if everything is integrated seamlessly.

 

[jadillac]

Google,Wikipedia,Youtube and Yahoo wll always be around. Facebook was a fad.

Nah bruh. FB is here to stay.

I've been on there since 04. And even though I dont check it much anymore, it's there, and people will always need a social network site.

If another one comes out, I'm not gonna sign up for it b/c I have too history on facebook.

Thats why they brought out that timeline thing that shows all ur years on there. They just wanna keep people long term....and on top of that, too many companies run ads thru facebook.

Twitter is cool, but theres too many bots and fake profiles

 

[Liquid]

Nah bruh. FB is here to stay.

I've been on there since 04. And even though I dont check it much anymore, it's there, and people will always need a social network site.

If another one comes out, I'm not gonna sign up for it b/c I have too history on facebook.

Thats why they brought out that timeline thing that shows all ur years on there. They just wanna keep people long term....and on top of that, too many companies run ads thru facebook.

Twitter is cool, but theres too many bots and fake profiles

Facebook will always be around, but it's relevance cannot be sustained unless more is offered to the public. In fact, facebook's growth is finally slowing down

 

[Dank Hill]

Nah bruh. FB is here to stay.

I've been on there since 04. And even though I dont check it much anymore, it's there, and people will always need a social network site.

If another one comes out, I'm not gonna sign up for it b/c I have too history on facebook.

Thats why they brought out that timeline thing that shows all ur years on there. They just wanna keep people long term....and on top of that, too many companies run ads thru facebook.

Twitter is cool, but theres too many bots and fake profiles

Myspace, blackplanet, migente, asianavenue, and linkedin are still around...

 

[jadillac]

Facebook will always be around, but it's relevance cannot be sustained unless more is offered to the public. In fact, facebook's growth is finally slowing down

Myspace, blackplanet, migente, asianavenue, and linkedin are still around...

Like I said in another thread, MySpace failed b/c they gave ppl TOO much freedom. It made the site hell to browse and it just became too clunky. Facebook even with all of it's rules and limits still remained on top.

And if growth is slowing down it's because literally everyone is already on there. The only thing they need to do is market towards the next generation.

Those other sites are still "around", but nobody is really using them(except for linkedin). They're like K-Mart when facebook is Walmart.

Facebook has too much time on their side and ppl arent gonna lose all their postings/pictures/tags/college friends, etc. to convert to another site.

That period from like 05-07 when literally everybody I went to highschool/college with were joining, will never be duplicated on any other site.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Coli should get into the game...make a social network called the Coogie?

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Like I said in another thread, MySpace failed b/c they gave ppl TOO much freedom. It made the site hell to browse and it just became too clunky. Facebook even with all of it's rules and limits still remained on top.

And if growth is slowing down it's because literally everyone is already on there. The only thing they need to do is market towards the next generation.

Those other sites are still "around", but nobody is really using them(except for linkedin). They're like K-Mart when facebook is Walmart.

Facebook has too much time on their side and ppl arent gonna lose all their postings/pictures/tags/college friends, etc. to convert to another site.

That period from like 05-07 when literally everybody I went to highschool/college with were joining, will never be duplicated on any other site.

Facebook is far from the only company to suffer from this issue. There is always another market, word to GE. Starbucks still has expansion and constantly finds a new market to pursue. If facebook can't adapt or find new ways to earn, then its a bad investment, period.

 

[Robbie3000]

Facebook will always be around, but it's relevance cannot be sustained unless more is offered to the public. In fact, facebook's growth is finally slowing down

Atleast with the people advertisers covet. In the "developed" world, Facebook has reached a saturation point. They are growing, but in countries where the average person earns like a $150 dollars a month. Advertisers are looking at the situation like



I tend to value companies based on their core competencies and the competitive advantage it gives them in the market place. I really don't know what competitive advantage Facebook has that would justify their market capitalization.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

facebook was doing fine before it's IPO. And its NOT a start up company seeing that its been around since 2004. The problem with what happened is simple. nikkas got greedy at Morgan Stanley and they 1. put too many shares on the open market and.. 2. they raised the est. value at the last minute. Add to the fact that Nasdaq wasn't prepared to handle the heavy trading couple with many investors who had no intentions of holding on to the stock very long and well.. you have a perfect storm for disaster. I thin facebook will be around for a long time.

 

[YBE]

all these social networks are retarded not to sell...

Groupon turned down a $6 billion offer from Google
Twitter turned down a $10 billion offer from Google
Companies didn't even waste time offering to purchase Facebook but, Microsoft bought 1.5% for $240 million. Facebook could've easily sold.

Hopefully Facebook falling on its ass will serve as a cautionary tale to new startups. Its no shame in being acquired early.

 

[MikelArteta]

I would bet the 50 percent maybe even higher of fb accounts aren't even used

 

[JayYoung314]

facebook cornered the social networking market. it wont be going anywhere for the next century at least, it has everything u could want, only way it would fall off is if social networking itself falls off.

 

[Remarkable]

Happens to the best of us.

 

[Robbie3000]

facebook cornered the social networking market. it wont be going anywhere for the next century at least, it has everything u could want, only way it would fall off is if social networking itself falls off.

Facebook may not fall off, but will it be able to generate enough revenues to justify it's market cap going forward? Even if its membership keeps growing? I doubt they can do it soley based on their current business model which is heavily dependent on advertising revenue.

Personally, I wonder how effective Internet advertising is in the first place. I may be the anomaly, but I have yet to click on an ad on Facebook.

Facebook may need to extend it's product line to include physical gadgets that can leverage it's dominance in the social networking space.

 

[Data-Hawk]

Google,Wikipedia,Youtube and Yahoo wll always be around. Facebook was a fad.

Take out Yahoo...lol