The way the IPO went out reflects a bit of the way people feel about Facebook. It gets old and all this big-brother technology it uses eventually gets to a lot of users.
The way the IPO went out reflects a bit of the way people feel about Facebook. It gets old and all this big-brother technology it uses eventually gets to a lot of users.
I wonder how many small investors got shafted by this drop in shareprice
I am sure goldman sachs made out like bandits
They asked for it. Anyone that doesn't realize by now that Wallstreet is in the business to fuck you deserves it.
It is mostly governments fault though because regulation has made it so expensive to go public that companies go public now just to cash out. The whole point of going public is to get more capital to expand a growing business. Facebook should have went public before it was popular. Thats the way it used to work.
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Facebook Will Disappear in 5 to 8 Years: Analyst
Facebook will lose dominance as a major web company in less than a decade, Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital said Monday on CNBC's Squawk on the Street.
"In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared," Jackson said. "Yahoo is still making money, it's still profitable, still has 13,000 employees working for it, but it's 10 percent of the value that it was at the height of 2000. For all intents and purposes, it's disappeared."
Jackson said there have been three generations of web companies. The first generation was big web portals, such as Yahoo [YHOO 15.01 0.09 (+0.6%) ] , where content was aggregated in one place. The second was the social web with Facebook [FB 26.90 -0.82 (-2.96%) ] and the third generation is companies focused entirely on monetizing the mobile platform, something Facebook will continue to struggle with, Jackson said.
"When you look over these three generations, no matter how successful you are in one generation, you don't seem to be able to translate that into success in the second generation, no matter how much money you have in the bank, no matter how many smart PhDs you have working for you," Jackson said. "Look at how Google [GOOG 578.59 7.61 (+1.33%) ] has struggled moving into social, and I think Facebook is going to have the same kind of challenges moving into mobile."
Last month Facebook acknowledged its mobile challenge in a regulatory filing. The company stated that the growing number of mobile users using Facebook is hard to monetize and "may negatively affect our revenue and financial results."
Jackson's comments on the future of the social network come at a time when Facebook's stock is down about 27 percent from its IPO price of $38 a share, making it the biggest two-week loss of any IPO since 1995.
"The world is moving faster, it's getting more competitive, not less, and I think those who are dominant in their prior generation are really going to have a hard time moving into this newer generation," he said. "Facebook can buy a bunch of mobile companies, but they are still a big, fat website and that's different from a mobile app."
^
Absolutely no loss. By then, bar codes will be mandated - fitted to the masses so Big Brother won't lose his grip...
hopefully before that,Originally Posted by Hampsha
IT is a funny business, everything was ported to the web with a light UI, now with tablets and mobile apps we are returning to the "rich" apps interface. Going forward to go backward
^Bandwidth?
Facebook eats your brain
well , maybe only a little bit
but apparently it may be addictive - facebook junkies , they will eat your face
Health - Brian Fung - Can These 6 Questions Tell You If You're Clinically Addicted to Facebook? - The Atlantic
American medical discourse is chock full of addictions these days. There's video game addiction. Porn addiction. Gambling addiction. Internet addiction.
And of course: Facebook addiction. At least, that's according to Norwegian researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen, who says people who can't get enough of the social network show many of the same signs of withdrawal and mood swings associated with gambling junkies.
Although Facebook is not a chemical like alcohol or cocaine, she said in an email to The Atlantic, Facebook users can fit the criteria for addiction that are applied to other things.
The problem, however, is this: how do you measure addiction to a website? Her attempt, which was published earlier this year in Psychological Reports, is called the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. Originally, participants were asked 18 questions and those answers were correlated with a variety of other psychological tests and measures of problematic media usage.All addictions, chemical and non-chemical, appear to comprise six core components: (1) salience (the activity dominates thinking and behaviour), (2) mood modification (the activity modifies/improves mood), (3) tolerance (increasing amounts of the activity are required to achieve initial effects), (4) withdrawal (occurrence of unpleasant feelings when the activity is discontinued or suddenly reduced), (5) conflict (the activity causes conflicts in social relationships and other activities), and (6) relapse (tendency for reversion to earlier patterns of the activity after abstinence or control).
Six of the initial 18 questions have been kept by the researchers as the most predictive of Facebook addiction. To a first approximation, these questions are a way of measuring whether you have a problem with Facebook. Each of them correlates with one of the six components listed above and can be answered: very rarely, rarely, sometimes, often, or very often. Here they are (we've listed the component of addiction the question addresses in parentheses after it).
How often during the last year have you...
spent a lot of time thinking about Facebook or planned use of Facebook? (Salience)
used Facebook in order to forget about personal problems? (Mood modification)
felt an urge to use Facebook more and more? (Tolerance)
become restless or troubled if you have been prohibited from using Facebook? (Withdrawal)
used Facebook so much that it has had a negative impact on your job/studies? (Conflict)
tried to cut down on the use of Facebook without success? (Relapse)
If you torture data for enough time , you can get it to say what you want.
my wife has discovered Facebook and has used it to trace loads of old friends from Uni and school
they talk about their kids, meals and gossip about mutual acquaintances
no change there then
^Without adequate bandwidth applications had to be light. When 3G first came out the processing of images and sizes of files was severely restricted. Nowadays hand sets have faster processors, better graphics, more memory. The programming and operating systems have also been enhanced.
This allows richer applications to be handled and a more acceptable processing/download times..
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
the internet loves to fcuk with stupid people
More than a third of divorce filings contain the word Facebook
But the site he founded isn't always so marriage-friendly. In fact, lawyers say the social network contributes to an increasing number of marriage breakups.
More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word Facebook, according to a survey by Divorce Online, a UK-based legal services firm. And over 80 percent of US divorce attorneys say they've seen a rise in the number of cases using social networking, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
"I see Facebook issues breaking up marriages all the time," says Gary Traystman, a divorce attorney in New London, Conn. Of the 15 cases he handles per year where computer history, texts and emails are admitted as evidence, 60 percent exclusively involve Facebook. The site did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
"Affairs happen with a lightning speed on Facebook," says K. Jason Krafsky, who authored the book "Facebook and Your Marriage" with his wife Kelli. In the real world, he says, office romances and out-of-town trysts can take months or even years to develop.
"On Facebook," he says, "they happen in just a few clicks." The social network is different from most social networks or dating sites in that it both re-connects old flames and allows people to "friend" someone they may only have met once in passing. "It puts temptation in the path of people who would never in a million years risk having an affair," he says.
Even when extra-marital affairs develop with no help from Facebook, experts say the site provides a deceptively comfortable forum for people to let off steam about their lives and inadvertently arouse the suspicions of spouses.
"The difference with Facebook is it feels safe, innocent and private," says Randy Kessler, an Atlanta, Ga.-based lawyer and current chair of the family law section of the American Bar Association.
"People put an enormous amount of incriminating stuff out there voluntarily," he added. "It could be something as innocuous as a check-in at a restaurant, he says, or a photograph posted online.
hardly, since the network data processed by those rich apps are still quite lightOriginally Posted by OhOh
I think it's simply a natural evolution, like from dumb terminals to network PCs, back to "html" terminals to rich network apps
A new social network to become unsociable will rear it's ugly head sooner rather than later.
Skype or a breed of the same ilk with more networking functions looks like the way forward to me.
I don't do Facebook BTW.
Too many skeletons and ugly Ex's I would rather leave in the closet.
Black diamonds? I shit 'em.
I detest FB nowadays. It's just seeing normally civilised people I know say pathetic things just to update their status that got on my nerves.
Stuff like 'g'night FB friends' on someones statusis one of my pet hates and says a lot about the idiot who is clearly on the bloody site all day..
Survey: 1 in 3 Facebook users getting bored with the social network | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News
Are you just not as drawn to the social network comings and goings of your friends and family as you once were? If so, you're not alone: According to a new poll by Reuters and research firm Ipsos, roughly one-third of Facebook users are feeling pretty "meh" about the social network these days, and the sentiment seems to be growing.
The survey focused more on the potential monetization of Facebook than current user habits, but the data was telling in several ways. According to the poll of over 1,000 Americans, 80% of Facebook users have never purchased a product or service because of what they saw on the site, meaning that whatever advertising techniques companies are currently employing to grab your cash simply isn't working.
Unsurprisingly, the survey found that users between the ages of 18 and 34 were the most active, while just 29% of people over 55 considered themselves regular users. Unfortunately, people who spend a great deal of time on the network are often victims of what the researchers call "Facebook fatigue," leading them to spend less and less time checking in with friends and browsing the profiles of their peers. What do you think? Have your Facebook habits changed? Let us know in the comments.
The girlfriend falls into the 2/3’s group that still enjoys it and I don’t use it. However I will look at the pictures that the girlfriends girlfriends post of themselves.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
and ?Originally Posted by S Landreth
ask them if they would like to post them here for some young handsome falangs to look at
^The girlfriend was showing one of her facebook friends (cute young woman) this morning, telling me how brave she was. The young women will go places with a coat on,.underneath a skimpy bikini. She’ll wait her turn in line at landmarks and then rip the coat off and you’ll see this young Thai in a bikini at some of the most unusual places (to be wearing a bikini).
She’ll (the young woman) remark how cold it was/is, but she says she doesn’t care.
I don’t think she’ll post any of the pictures here,.I think her facebook page is set on private.
what does that mean and what logic did you use ?Originally Posted by socal
how many Burkas do you make your girlfriend/boyfriend wear at the same time time ?
so by your logic ( notwithstanding your deductions as to the woman that was posted about ) , your girlfriend must be an utter retard.Originally Posted by socal
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