Poll: Would you buy Facebook stock?

no, the hype is too much. According to Ben Graham you want to buy stock when a company is under-appreciated. Facebook has already reached god like status

I'm reading the Intelligent Investor. Graham is extremely conservative and demands, among other things, a 20 year history of dividends and a low P/E.

I don't think he'd touch internet stock in general because it's here today and gone tomorrow.

history of dividends? I guess he wouldn't buy Berkshire then...

From the general state of things, I'm under the impression that shorting their stock might actually be a wiser position.

Until you find out that the borrow costs eat away 99% of the profits. This is what happened with groupon initially ...

Maybe, at market price, in the near future after the IPO buzz has settled down a bit, but I wouldn't plan to hold onto it for long.

If I could get some at ipo price, then yes. Again, not to hold onto for long though.