Is face book worth 104 billion

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Anaiya Arnold wrote:

A lot of those folk who lost out were probably just confused, overwhelmed, stressed out people who work really hard for the little they can save and were desperate to not be the worthless shmuck who missed the golden egg and so went on to live a hard life, never getting ahead only to have a retirement spent in poverty, watching their children struggle while not being able to help them, all the while regretting that time they could have got in on the golden egg but didn't. 

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can understand that as well. about those kinds of people

just say to them people who did buy FB shares then just hang onto them for a year or two or more and see how it goes. can only lose money if you actual sell them for less than what you paid for them

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if FB the company, not necessarily FB the social network, can make a good transition to mobile over the next 2 or 3 years then will be ok i think. specially if they can get FB credits working on the mobile which are convertible to RL cash so can buy stuff with your phone in realworld shops as well as online

so if FB can leverage their social network users onto mobiles and onto that path then they will right up there with companies like VISA and Mastercard who trying to crack that market as well. going forward that market is way bigger in terms of revenues than adverts will ever be

[PeachJubilee]

Unfortunately 16, the loss is immediate.  To invest in FB the money had to come from somewhere, and probably not under a matress.  To not lose the value of savings you already have, you have to persistently grow their nominal value to keep up with money's devaluation through inflation.  FB was over valued and is highly unlikely to achieve the price these people paid for it, and even if they broke even on nominal price they've still lost value on their savings.  That's without any accounting for "lost opportunity" to grow their saving's real value elsewhere at a rate that increases their actual value.

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the stock was priced at what people were prepared to pay for it on opening day. and they did pay the price. about 575 million trades worth

the stock market isnt about value. is about prices. they not the same thing

is same when you go to the veggie auction market at 6:30am in the morning

yesterday get a lettuce for $2. today costs $2.20 bc someone else today wants the lettuce more than me. it not change the value of the lettuce. is still just lettuce same as yesterday. tomorrow if that person doesnt come to the market then i will get for $2 or even $1.80

a stock, like lettuce, is priced at whatever someone else is prepared to pay for it at a given time

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can know what you saying about growing the worth of a persons savings or investments. again tho is only worth something when is realised. like sold/converted into something else

until it is then is notional value, or equity if you like

[Boudicca Littlebird]

It is now 29.50 a share, they will be affected by the change in tech and the price will never recover, all those that bought should sell now as in the short term and long term it is looking bad, FB are a software house not hardware, they are jumping into making their own smartphone as a panicked reaction, this will fail.