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At $100 billion, Facebook is the mother of all bubbles

TristanStewart_Robertson

Online ventures are always overvalued, and Facebook - like MySpace and Bebo before it - will eventually end up worth much less than its shareholders originally thought it was worth. There will always be the next venture that becomes the latest trend - Facebook is a bubble that will burst. read less read more

Venky Vembu

Facebook isn't a company; it's a global cultural phenomenon - with you at the centre of it. Nearly 1 billion people - one in every seven people on earth - are on it. Millions of people LIVE on it. It's influenced the way business, politics and society operate. It makes money, is growing aggressively, and its brand identity is to die for. It's not a bubble; it's the mother of all IPOs. read less read more