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Nigerian scam is getting more clever.... and bigger (pg. 2)
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Doubt it very much. If they charged you can bet their user base would drop considerably. |
Maybe.
I could be wrong. They're going to have to do something new, though, considering the extremely low click rate for the ads on there.
Another possibility would just be selling user info to advertisers. Actually, that's probably the route they'll take. The average user either wouldn't care or wouldn't know what was going on, anyway. |
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| bananas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Unlikely, unless it's some sort of super duper premium service. That'd kill the site. |
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| iammesol |
I don't understand why people think FB is a bubble.
Sure, once it has every nation's computer-using population on the site, it peaks. But until then, they're selling more and more ads with more and more targeting. Business is fucking booming. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| No one really knows what business is doing, since Facebook is still a private company. The real test will be what happens after the IPO. |
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| iammesol |
| Trust me. People from Google are flocking to Facebook in droves. They're making bank, and far more than even Google is making. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by djnitride
The real question: Is the combined profiles of 500 million people worth 50 billion just in information |
It is to the Department of Defense. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
Trust me. People from Google are flocking to Facebook in droves. They're making bank, and far more than even Google is making. |
People flocked from Microsoft to Google, too, even before Google was as big as it is now. That wasn't necessarily a statement about the relative salary levels. |
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| iammesol |
I'm saying FB has the money to offer millions of dollars to Google employees.
Read all about it on Mashable, dude. They're growing like never before, even before GS invested in them.
They're getting so big actually that they're buying a new campus that's a few miles away from their current one in Palo Alto. |
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| bananas |
| The new profiles sucks tho |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by bananas
The new profiles sucks tho |
I agree, I still haven't "upgraded" mine yet. |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
No one really knows what business is doing, since Facebook is still a private company. The real test will be what happens after the IPO. |
do i hear an echo in the room :p |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
They're getting so big actually that they're buying a new campus that's a few miles away from their current one in Palo Alto. |
Yeah but look what Google just bought:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/google-nyc/ |
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