> It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke.
> FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates.
> The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so.
> If FB gets sold for $6 billion, that means the new owning company would need to make $500 million a year for 12 years(!) to break even.
> Frankly, the Internet will probably be drastically different a decade from now.
> FB doesn't even make $50 million a year, who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Facebook by spending that much money?
> I swear some of these big companies just like throwing money at things. Yes, the dot-com bubble is here once again.
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