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#1 User is offline   Ken Gracey 

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Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:58 PM

Facebook is only days away from a public float, which could value the company as high as 70 billion dollars.

So my question is, if you had a spare couple of hundred would you buy shares, or just keep your hard earned cash in your pocket ?
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Posted 16 May 2012 - 10:48 AM

No Ken, i have found the Australian blue chip shares like the Commonwealth Bank have been safe haven for me over the years.
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Posted 16 May 2012 - 11:07 AM

That is an interesting question Ken, FB could be an interesting option that is for sure. But given that I do not agree with their philosophy of hard core selling data ...I will never invest in such company or any company that glean data for resell. Try to avoid them.

I do use FB from time to time but use a different browser just to log in and out. No pursuit in finding out what I do or don't do/// Naive on my part I know.
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 05:23 PM

How much did everybody make, of the Facebook shares ? Well a .38 cent return on 38.00 per share, almost as much of a joke as Facebook itself.

I can this meagre return, scaring off a few investors, from Facebook real fast, the media have already attacked the float as an over hyped joke, and the only people who made money out of it was Bono from US ( at 2 billion) the suckerber him self, and a few other that put money into it years ago.

I can't wait for monday when shares really start to sink :D

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Posted 19 May 2012 - 05:30 PM

i was watching Kochie the other day and he said it's not a good idea to but them, he showed a graph of it all and showed that Facebook is on he decline but the shares are selling at their highest
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 10:42 PM

I hear people saying it's declining but at the same time subscriber numbers are increasing. It can't be both. Unless revenue is down somehow? I guess people could be leaving without turning out the lights.
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 11:50 PM

It's probably to do with rate of growth. Remember how everybody was saying that the iPod was dead because although sales were increasing, the rate of increase was decreasing.
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 08:01 AM

Oops Facebook shares dropped 11% today, I hope sucker berg, is not counting his billions just yet :P
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 11:35 AM

I'm not surprised. I think there were expectations of something like that.
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 07:56 AM

Time for my morning Facebook updated

Ok shares are in the toilet, but the news gets better, Facebook is being sued...

Zuckerd in

O PS thats how i am going to refer to all my Facebook share references from now on... every body who bought them were ZUCKERED IN :P it has a nice ring to it
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 08:57 AM

Like your new invention Ken.....Zuckered!
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Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:00 AM

OK, i have been slack on this one lately..

but Facebook share are now $28.65, down 25% from the float day... O and :mosking:
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Posted 07 June 2012 - 08:15 AM

Ok, time for our thursday morning chuckle.

Facebook's shares dropped to an all-time low of $25.75 on Tuesday, more than 30 percent below their offering price. The No. 1 social network has shed about $32 billion of its value since its haphazard May 18 IPO. :41:
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