Píramídasvindl?

Þeir eru til sem halda því fram að að með þessu uppblásna verðmati á facebook sé í uppsiglingu dæmigert "ponzi scheme" þar sem lífeyrissparnaður verði  meðal fórnarlamba.  Og ekki er aðkoma Goldman Sahcs og frétta flutningur fjölmiðla til að draga úr grunsemdunum.

"Sure, we know the story. Social media exploded in 2010. Facebook passed Google as the most visited site on the planet, with one out of every four webpages viewed in the U.S. belonging to Facebook. Yeah, yeah, it's a good story.

But we've also seen this movie before.

You have 500 million people playing Farmville and Mafia Wars and telling the world how wasted they got last night... but what makes them worth an average $100 in market value?

Our own social media maven suggests "the real value" of the company is in "leveraging all the user data they've collected on their members. The ability to develop tools, apps and targeted advertising will allow you to monetize. As they open up their API, it will allow developers to access this info and use this community to create more and more interaction."

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/337/966/How_Much_is_Facebook_Really_Worth.html

 

Facebook metið á 50 milljarða dala