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...?

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!

poor relative said...

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.

I can say that I have met all my friends on FB. Wouldnt know how many I have tho, I havnt used it for a while.

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

He knocked back a 27 billion offer from microsoft ! Gutsy effort !!!! I would have taken that and run !!!!!

Trant said...

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!

So instead of emailing photo's to only your friends and family, it goes thru a website that you have no control over. Forget privacy settings, somebody else (FB) has it for good.
Then they use your info for targeted advertising banners so you get spam crap on your web browser.
Because so many people use it, FB is the target for more hack attacks than anything else

The simple convenience may be great, but IMHO not at the risk of my personal sh!t being accessed by others or sold on to spam advertisers etc

Mark _australia said...

Trant said...

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!

So instead of emailing photo's to only your friends and family, it goes thru a website that you have no control over. Forget privacy settings, somebody else (FB) has it for good.
Then they use your info for targeted advertising banners so you get spam crap on your web browser.
Because so many people use it, FB is the target for more hack attacks than anything else

The simple convenience may be great, but IMHO not at the risk of my personal sh!t being accessed by others or sold on to spam advertisers etc

If they want to use the photo of my dog standing on the beach next to a big steaming poo with a semi amusing caption, then they're more than welcome to it.

Facebook only has the information you provide it with.

Basecurve said...

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....

Tulip mania comes to mind.

pweedas said...

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.

Genius.... Call warren buffet.... Quick

If you go long on an IPO you are an idiot....... By long I mean buy and hold... Sell quick and take your 8% or go short and wait for the $$$$

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...

cisco said...

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????

Yes and no.... Actually no your not investing in them...
if you are betting that the market will value them at less than that. then the expected outcome is the share price will fall, therefore you bet the ****ers share pRice will be going down and hence don't buy the share but short sell, sell stock you don't own and enjoy the beers on the overestimation of Gen Ys attention span..

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.

pweedas said...
Oh, I see. You mean short selling. i.e selling shares now that you don't own because you know you can buy them next week for cheaper.

That's not how short selling is supposed to work.

Proper practice is to 'borrow' some shares for a fee with the intention of giving them back after a short period of time. In the meantime, you would sell those shares and then buy them back.

e.g.
Bob lends me 100 shares in Facebook in return for $100
I sell the shares to Jill at $38 each
1 week later I buy back 100 shares from Julian at $32 for a profit of $600
I give the shares back to Bob

I've just made $500.