Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB)

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Facebook's popularity is waning since its early-adopters are not using the social network as much as they used to. Also, many users are leaving due to privacy or security concerns, as well as the diminishing community feeling (i.e. most of the posts are no longer personal or appeal to the friends that they are being shared with)

10 000 accounts accessed by the US government? My suggestion is, save yourself and sell your stocks if you want some money back. This is the worst investment you can ever make.

22 PUTS IS WHERE THE MONEY TREE IS

22 PUTS AND UP

This large moat company has just begun to monetize on its nearly 1 billion monthly active users.

Its young CEO and Founder has decades to accomplish his mission which may not be exciting for the average person on the street, but is for the wise, patient investor.

Just as Google started with a dominant moat and eventually worked to grow profits, this company has a likely fortuitous road ahead.

Now that the stock is past the IPO hype and has settled into the low 20s (market cap ~$50-60 Billion), I think it's a buy.

Facebook Will never be 'cool' again. I stayed away from this stock when it went public and I'm glad I did.

PRISM

I am a foreign (non-U.S.) national living outside the USA. I am also a paying customer of Microsoft, Google and Apple's.

In fact, Microsoft and Apple are likely to derive the major part of their global revenues from people just like me: people outside the USA. Billions of people around the world use Microsoft and Apple products and use Google searches on a daily basis.

Does this make all the 5 billion people outside of the USA free game? I find these reassurances that "only non U.S. persons outside the USA" are targeted very disturbing in their narrowness and lack of regard for international business.

Personally, I am likely to terminate my business relationships with the above companies when the next reasonable opportunity presents itself.

From A PR point of view, I am baffled about not having heard of any efforts of the companies participating in PRISM to reassure their international customers. The same goes for the reporting on these issues, as above.

facebook will be able to leverage it's hundreds of millions users should it develop another big thing.

Younger they get, the less attention they have. Even the untouchable Facebook is seeing an exodus from the younger generation. got a lot of money? try getting in on twitter!

Facebook has everything lined up. Market leader and high user base. Its the companies game to lose. The company must continue to invest on future growth. It cannot remain stagnant. There is more than just monetizing mobile. Selling pressure from lock-up expiration is about done. This baby is ready to rock.

Losing ad revenue to poor management.

Almost 1 billion users. At some point someone's gonna figure out how to monetize that.

The kids are going elsewhere.

Still overvalued. Very little room to grow in terms of revenue. The idea of a Facebook phone is quite comical. Not going to go very far any time soon.

Did everyone quietly forget about Facebook?

GROWTH
- Daily Active Users (DAU) are now up to 665 MILLION worldwide. That's a huge network effect at work.
- Facebook is moving the bar internationally. Monthly Active Users (MAU) in Brazil are up 62% y/y and 50% in India. This isn't just a US success story.
- People once doubted whether FB could grow in mobile. The Q1 report continued to prove them wrong. Mobile MAU worldwide are now at 751 million, which was up 54% y/r.
REVENUE
- Even with the impressive global growth, FB also grew global Average Revenue Per User by 12% y/yr (up to $1.35 now). It was up over 20% in the US, Canada, and Asia.
- FB's business is (right now at least) all about Advertising revenues. The growth rates above lead me to believe that they will have no problems continuing to attract further advertising dollars.
- That said, users of the site have noticed alternative sources of revenue, including transactions that you can now make within the platform (i.e. birthday gifts) that FB gets a cut of. This is easy money for Facebook.

The data is the wildcard. Facebook has such a ridiculous amount of data on all of its users: profiles, where they live, what they like, where they go out. If they find a way to capitalize on this without being too invasive to users' privacy, there's no telling where the company can go.

I'm not one that has forgotten about Facebook. At $24.71/share, FB has plenty of room to run.

Year over year 1st quarter up 30%. Capable of shifting ads to mobile to bring in a larger revenues as people trend away from older devices. Rumors that they are working toward purchasing Waze. That would give them more advertising money and draw more daily use of the app. At 1.1 billion users and growing. China could be an expansion that could take them to the next level. The internet is starting to spread to regions in the world that were unconnected before. That will result in new users. Like it or not Face Book is capable of making revenue on the volume of subscribers alone.

Over a billion on board, over half of that cracking out on the service several times a day. No brainer as long as FB does not jump right into disruptive advertising or start charging enrollment. If they would lean toward ads on the periphery, that would be better than waiting to skip a video ad. Should be interesting, and should be pretty hard to mess this one up.

This is too overvalued compared to other social media companies