FB down 8% at opening

Re:FB down 8% at opening by ollerac on Monday May 21, 2012 @10:36AM (#4003022)

I agree that most future growth will come from extracting more cash from their current pool of users, but I can imagine a situation in which new sources of revenue would lead to exponential growth.

The world economy has never seen anything quite like Facebook before -- that's why it's so exciting. They could become Google/Netflix/LinkedIn/Zynga combined. I'm not saying they will, but they've got the prerequisites: 1 billion active users.

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Re:FB down 8% at opening by MaysonL on Monday May 21, 2012 @04:02PM (#4004643)

They could become Google/Netflix/LinkedIn/Zynga combined

Or they could become the next AOL/Myspace/Friendster/Ning combined... (IMNSHO, that's at least as likely as the former).

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Re:FB down 8% at opening by dmgz on Monday May 21, 2012 @04:48PM (#4004856)

Facebook has pretty accurate data on 1 billion people. They have not even scratched the surface of how they can monetize it. Think about the equivalent of Google Adsense, syndicated across the entire world wide web, but targetable by detailed and fairly accurate demographic and psychographic profiles. Now layer in the social elements to help marketeres "earn" impressions.

There is a fairly strong chance they will own an enormous % of market share of ALL online and mobile display advertising in the near future.

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Re:FB down 8% at opening by Retric on Monday May 21, 2012 @03:35PM (#4004499)

I think the telegraph, telephone, and internet where both similar to and far larger than Facebook.

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