Comments on: Requiste $15 Billion Facebook Polemic

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We’re Not Rock Stars Anymore | How To Split An Atom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:56:07 +0000

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By: Las Vegas Real Estate Guy

Las Vegas Real Estate Guy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:18:43 +0000

Maggy is on to something. Facebook is currently riding a popularity wave…that could come crashing to shore at any moment. Time waster sites can appear and vanish at the user’s whim. I think it’s overvalued because its value really isn’t there. FB will have to keep coming up with something new to hold user’s interests or they’ll see their traffic plummet imo.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:40:12 +0000

Feels like 1999 all over again.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:40:12 +0000

Feels like 1999 all over again.

By: Maggy Young

Maggy Young — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:25:22 +0000

Maybe 'produce' something isn't the best term. Each of the sites listed helps or enables users to do something & something which is useful to them – search; sell; buy. Their value is in their usfulness. Excluding the linking to friends, Facebook maybe has no real use. A sceptic asked me recently re. F/Book 'What's the point of it?' I thought & said 'Well nothing really … there isn't one'. This question could not be asked of eg. Google or Amazon or Ebay or Craigslist. The 'point' of F/Book appears to be that it's currently popular which gives it less underlying strength than the other majors.

By: Maggy Young

Maggy Young — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:25:22 +0000

Maybe ‘produce’ something isn’t the best term. Each of the sites listed helps or enables users to do something & something which is useful to them – search; sell; buy. Their value is in their usfulness. Excluding the linking to friends, Facebook maybe has no real use. A sceptic asked me recently re. F/Book ‘What’s the point of it?’ I thought & said ‘Well nothing really … there isn’t one’. This question could not be asked of eg. Google or Amazon or Ebay or Craigslist. The ‘point’ of F/Book appears to be that it’s currently popular which gives it less underlying strength than the other majors.

By: Steve Spalding

Steve Spalding — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:28:11 +0000

I did the math based on their monthly traffic data. They get about 24 Million users a month. So it is more like $600+ per user per month.

Or more relevant. About $600+ per unique ad impression in a month.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:47:14 +0000

I did the same thing that you did, Steve, when I read that Facebook had gotten it's valuation… I did the “per user” math. However, I couldn't find a consensus number on how many users they have. According to the oft-wrong wikipedia… they have 42 million. Either way.. its an astronomical number. $600 per user? Lets say it IS 42 million. That is still around $350 per user, which sets a WILD precedent. Who would have thought when Newscorp bought myspace that it would be a STEAL at 500+ million.

By: Steve Spalding

Steve Spalding — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:28:11 +0000

I did the math based on their monthly traffic data. They get about 24 Million users a month. So it is more like $600+ per user per month.

Or more relevant. About $600+ per unique ad impression in a month.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:47:14 +0000

I did the same thing that you did, Steve, when I read that Facebook had gotten it’s valuation… I did the “per user” math. However, I couldn’t find a consensus number on how many users they have. According to the oft-wrong wikipedia… they have 42 million. Either way.. its an astronomical number. $600 per user? Lets say it IS 42 million. That is still around $350 per user, which sets a WILD precedent. Who would have thought when Newscorp bought myspace that it would be a STEAL at 500+ million.