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Yesterday, facebook shares price fell -24% on DOW Jones   :D

https://www.marketwatch.com/story (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-stock-crushed-after-revenue-user-growth-miss-2018-07-25)

Is this beginning of the end of .com and tech bubbles ?

When FB, Twitter, Pandora, Zinga, and Groupon went public I was following their shares just out of curiosity, since it seemed like a replay of the internet stock boom of the 90s--and we all know how that ended.

I wasn't even aware that FB shares had gotten over $200, so that was kind of surprising to me.  $173.50 seems like it's still a really high valuation on a tech company that's probably never going to pay a dividend.  But that's what happens with these stocks.  If they miss an earnings target or lower their revenue forecasts, they get hammered.  Investors are looking for a good tech story, and if they see signs of weakness in that story, they sell.  FB and the rest of those tech companies are highly speculative.  Not as bad as the internet companies of the 90s which had zero profits and sometimes horrible, unsustainable business plans, but speculative nonetheless.

Having said that, I don't think this is the end for social media stocks.  It's probably more like a big bump in the road.  The rest of the market is still raging, and unless investors start selling off everything, FB and the rest will continue upward.  This is definitely a good reality check for everyone.

5 days back, I deleted my facebook account and yesterday facebook fell -24%

I was getting hundreds of friends request from porn/sex websites, prostitutes, homosexuals, nude people, pictures of people with AK-47 rifles etc....

Be careful on the internet.

Everything should go down sometimes. Maybe it is just a normal pullback. Facebook is being used by many people in all around the globe? Why would it go down? It there any competitor? None!

No, these ".com" websites you are talking about are definitely not "tech bubbles" as if you haven't seen lately a lot of us now are social media zombies which spend more time scrolling in the app/website rather than actually socializing. I am guessing that you are new to the stock exchange market so I'll explain why the stock price fell, first of all Facebook didn't record any income loss they actually have a sales increased of more than 41% last year but it was lower compared to the expected growth rate of analysts, and obviously some investors and financial companies somehow translated this negatively and started to sell their stocks of Facebook, and with other investors seeing big players offloading their shares they will also start to sell their shares too. This is also another way for these big players to take profit while obviously buying back Facebook shares on a lowered price. This is an example of how big players use their influence to gain profit in the market, just like what our whales are doing in the cryptocurrency market.

Maybe the rumors is true that facebook will actually manage a market which is binance, in order to boost up their shares and they will engage on cryptocurrency.

You do not get friend requests from people out of the blues. You must visit similar profiles to get requests from such people. So your weird requests did not just happen. You asked for that.

Yeah I also saw the news. In fact the last time I use facebook is about one or two years ago, and a lot of my friends stop using it as well. The current price $200 does seem to be a little high, it is normal for the market to do some adjustment. Also, the earning report may affect the market confidence.

.com tech bubbles ?? These .com tech companies are expanding far greater than being just a social media platform, specially facebook. I won't call them bubble, no no.
Looks like facebook lost more than $100bn, $173.5? that's a very steep hit price?  
It's just a bump, facebook handled a similar downfall well in the past, if i remember correctly.
I guess this is what happens when they scare the investors by saying that the revenue growth will decelerate in second half of this year, although such a major hit was really unpredictable.

Social media platforms are a big bubble and Facebook is the biggest bubble of all the other bubbles.There are 1,7 billion FB profiles,but how many are the fake or dormant profiles?All the young people don`t think that Facebook is cool.They are moving to other platforms.User growth is going down and that makes the FB stocks to fall.

I read that you can buy 50,000 facebook users [whatever] for $8000

the rise of blockchain companies are more likely to replace the Markets. maybe Mark himself dumped his own shares in preparation for the migration to blockchain or whatever. if facebook indeed going to be creating their own tokens, maybe we'll see it on market soon. social media rise and falls though, another social media platform might exist to replace it too.

Did you read, google got fined $5 billion by European Union for illegal practices

Search in google.com    ;D

People say the dot com and tech bubbles popped but last I checked the majority of newly made millionaires and billionaires are involved in some type of tech or internet business. There are still many great opportunities and hot investments in tech even though investors aren't throwing ridiculous sums of money into random tech or internet start ups anymore.

I can't say if facebook's stock decline is related to backlash from its recent surveillance expose. I think social media sites like livejournal, myspace and perhaps facebook have a set lifespan and potentially an expiration date. We do know that facebook chose to unblock advertisements related to crypto currencies and ICOs. That unblocking of crypto ads could represent a 1st indication facebook was in need and money and searching for ways to boost revenues to meet estimates.

I thought snapchat's stock was overvalued when it opened near $20. Its down near $13 today. The market is so oversaturated with social media networks and private messaging apps. Perhaps it was time for a market correction.

It's not as bad as it looks.

Institutions are often tied to very strict regulations that requires them to not participate in speculation, which basically means that they can't sell their shares in large quantities unless something has fundamentally changed and they are forced to do so to protect capital. In other words, some institutions used the not so fruity outlook as an excuse to secure a massive amount of profits while it's still hovering around all time high levels.

With how the money press is pumping so much value in the economy, it wouldn't surprise me to see Facebook's stock reach another all time high in the next 12 or so months.

This may be the most shocking news in the world today. Facebook is a social network that is being accessed by millions of people every day. But because of that, FB is losing control. There are billions of FB accounts, which are used for personal and business purposes but there are also individuals and organizations that use FB with bad intentions such as ghost companies, propaganda, reactionary, photo sharing. The image is affected, affecting the FB user. This is unlikely to be used on social networks.

I have noticed that facebook is not interesting anymore to a lot of people, one of them being me. So i have deleted facebook around half a year ago and havent look back since. I just dont see added benefit in it any more. It has become dull and there is nothing important or fun anymore. Just ads or pictures of food.

It is perfectly normal for shares of large firms to rise and fall due to many reasons and it doesn't mean that the future of the company is at risk if becoming a failed company, so why make so many issues about Facebook shares being low at this point? Facebook is a leader in the social media sphere and has a lot of future and massive revenue to make.

That means porn/sex websites, prostitutes, homosexuals, nude people, people with AK-47 rifles, drug cartels, terrorists, scammers/frauds, criminals, sex maniacs are members/users of Facebook.

Never receive that kind of request.  I think is you who should be careful with your internet usage, your searching history.  You know, I love funny videos, dogs and wildlife vids and watch a lot of it on facebook and that kind of pages that is keep coming to my facebook timeline.  No porn or something like that.  LOL

I registered with facebook in 2011 [not sure] because of all the social media hype and testing. Then never logged in to my facebook account.

In 2017, I became online worker doing data processing, surveys etc.. and they needed facebook login so I came to facebook.

I have my own website. Offine due to less money. Why facebook for me ??

Wow! Generally speaking it was predictable because as far as I know the institutional investors and smart private investors did not buy the shares from NASDAQ and S&P500 on the highs because it was obviously for everybody that shares were overheated. Companies are still buying back its own shares but it will be over soon I am sure that a trader who opens a short position on NASDAQ or S&P500 just in time of inception of falling will earn much but it need to be carefull because any short position is very dangerous.

Facebook shares plummeted significantly in the world financial markets, and it created a huge shock for Facebook. The world financial market is very difficult and cryptocurrency is a market that attracts a lot of financial investors around the world.

I agree. Bitcoin never fell -20% in one day or one hour  :D   :D

Sort of expected it with the recent scandal involving Facebook and data privacy.

This is just market manipulation and panic selling...

The reasons quoted for the decline is this:


Lols, a 3 million, or 3% decline in user accounts in Europe is triggering a 20% fall in share prices.
Really?

Oh, and @First77, please stop playing around with numbers...
It was 20%, not 24, and it's already below 18

I always did not like facebook.  I do not know why, but we did not get along and many people think so.

Facebook shares fell more than 20 percent after it became known that the network's revenues and the growth of its users did not meet the expectations of investors. Facebook is definitely experiencing hard times, the growth of active users by 11% since June 2017 has become the slowest in the last two years. This is disturbing news for the campaign. Facebook even warned investors that in 2019 the company's expenses could exceed revenues.

Everything happens, the giants can also fall, the main thing is whether they can rise.

I think the rise of Cryptocurrency has something to do with it because as we all know, cryptocurrency is widely-spreading across the world and day by day more and more investors are coming in that is why they tend to focus in investing in Cryptocurrency rather than investing in companies shares that sometimes are not really a good move because it is the company only that benefits the people's investment.

Zuckerburg and insiders sold over $4 billion worth share in last 4 months.I think FB will fall another 10 to 15% in coming days

I think this is a temporary phenomenon, which is connected with the publication of the report. After all, they expected a larger increase in their users. They increased, but did not reach the planned growth. Now facebook in all the news. A kind of good advertising.

It's amazing people are not paid to use that horrible information stealing website.  Of all the social media corporations to me Facebook is the absolute worst.  Cannot wait for the day that POS is kicked to the curb. 

Prolly not yet the end. We have to see and wait how they are going to cope up with what had happened with their stocks. I really think it might be because of something we don't really know. How the price fell or what's the story behind it. I believe they'll be here in the next 5 years. We won't be seeing gone socmeds at least at that time.

It's the beginning of the fiat bubble, beginning of the data-selling bubble. We are beginning to take control of our information!

So, not only crypto investors are prone to panic. FB claims to be a real life company, but a 3% fart can trigger an avalanche. Even if it's 18% not 24, it's still a significant loss without a reasonable explanation. While some people claim that BTC is full of speculators that came in for the money not knowing anything about fundamentals, this situation with FB proves that its price is hanging by a thread and is able to generate huge losses for investors if anything happens (FUD or not). BTC is starting to look more and more robust compared to these "giants".

Ponzis crash under their own weight.

How come that you have that kind of friend requisitions?i have been a facebook user for 7 years before i deactivate my account but never had an experience of having such,maybe youre entering sites that has been connected wth those kind of person

But regarding to OPs post well thats the effect of being greed of zuckerberg ,stones now are throwing back against him for what he did in crypto

I am Twitter user since 2012. Never had any problems like facebook. WHY ?? Facebook is the real criminal

I have 331 tweets/posts and 13 followers on Twitter. See below

This was definitely a huge hit for Facebook, and the shares fell down a significant amount, affecting a lot of people. However, I don’t think this is the beginning of the burst of the .com bubble. There are a lot of factors that were the cause of Facebook’s shares falling, the largest being the recent scandals Facebook has been a part of. After reporting their Q2 earnings, Facebook took a large hit, but they can and should be able to recover from this hit. It will take a lot more for Facebook to fall of the face of the Earth. Another fact I read was about Europe and the new advertising laws, which is Facebook’s primary source of revenue.

I dont think its end of dotcom or tech. Facebook have issue on security and their reveneu below market expectation, its very normal if below market expectation and have law suit, share price will falling.
Facebook should accepting cryptocurrency ads if facebook want to increase their ads revenue because cryptocurrency bussiness right now growing faster and a lot project need promotion.

This is brutal and I dont like the idea of watching this. This has happened becouse of something we dont know yet or maybe we wont know never, and thats bad. Big thing happened to fbook or will happen to fbook (thus people with fbook account will too), dont like the idea, cross the fingers.

I have three facebook accounts.  First, the real one with real friends since 2009 but never log in maybe for 4 years.  Lately, when checking my email, there are 2 notifications of failed attempt to log in to that account.  It's not me but I don't really care because I already forgot my password too.  Second, fake profile for gaming purpose with hundreds gaming friends from all over the world, also since 2009 and still use every day.  Third, fake profile since about 2 or 3 years ago, NO friend.  I just use it to help my 2nd account on zynga poker game quest.  I never have problem like you with all my accounts but my 3rd account always have half naked suggested friends.  Of course they are fake profiles.  So I guess, your account is similiar to this, no friend or not so much.  My point is I don't think facebook is the criminal.  Hacker, spammer, scammer is the criminal.  About 2 weeks ago, I'm interested in facebook campaign so I made a new fake facebook account but it was blocked the day after.  They know it's fake, now it's getting harder to make a new one.

For the fact that stock price falls by that significant percentage does not mean that is the beginning of the end of the entire industry. The going down of Facebook shares is not something that should be surprising to anyone in the know in the scheme of things. A lot of people have moved to other platforms where they get more fun couple with the data abuse controversy that happen sometimes ago.

The current downtrend is not expected to be permanent with the controversy wearing our gradually, the review of their advertisement policy on crypto, the rolling out of new features of videos, things would surely improve and more importantly, stock price is most importantly determined based on emotions of market participants.

Facebook's stock price crash has had a huge impact on the massive leak of user data that Facebook encountered at the beginning of the year!
Many users have abandoned Facebook, which has affected Facebook's revenue. The stock price decline indicates that investors have lost confidence in Facebook!

Facebook has reached its peak and that's why it is going down. It has happened in the past, to quite a lot of the tech stocks, such as Yahoo! and DELL. I feel good, as Zuckerberg is a known opponent of the crypto-currency.

As Facebook have cheated with the users by selling their data without taking the permissions from their users has backfire them. Also what is the bigger problem is that they have made money by selling those data and eventually they did not paid the users for they have earned from selling the users data to their user.

A simple webhosting costs $100/year. Facebook which has 1 billion users. Think, the webhosting and maintainence costs for facebook.

Probably not, facebook is the leading social media today. It may still take years or decades for it to become obsolete or if another platform better emerges then facebook will not go down and close.

may result from users who've switched to the other  :)

That is true. Facebook is already a giant in social media platform and it has developed a lot innovated and great technologies as well. I heard they are building a lot of great things also. It is normal for stock to go up and down. I believe it will come back soon later.

bitcointalk.org has 2,300,000 members. Not bad. My threads/topics here have got 300 to 800 replies.

One of my topic here got 800 replies in 7 days but many of my topics have been deleted.

Facebook will still be able to make billions of dollars each quarter in the near future, although these numbers may decline slightly. But that drop is necessary as the social network is adopting change and finding new business directions.

Facebook's social news feed will not grow. Just as stock prices sometimes rise, they will sometimes fall. What is important is that the current sacrifices of Facebook are effective later on? The answer would be hard to come by right now, but one thing that has to be said is that Facebook will not be able to crash so easily.

Facebook shares price down -50% will be good for the world economy.

I don't think so that this fall of -24% indicates any kind of the end of .com and tech bubbles. This types of fall are seen often and they are mostly present in correction mode of the stock trading markets. But it is far better than those 90's tech and .com bubbles as right now the tech companies are really having that kind of earning potential and maturity in the terms of business. This type of falls are often seen when the overall stock valuation is overvalued, then it has to come down to match its correct valuations and i think it will be adjusted soon.

A youtube video which gets 500,000 views earns $1200. How many youtube videos get 500,000 views in one year ??

This is the beginning of the fall of facebook since zuckenberg has been greedy towards cryptocurrency and focusing on hes own cryptocoin

People now seeing the attitude of facebook owner,as many new social media sites are creating names in mainstream now.i wonder how long will it take before this facebook totally abandoned

Facebook investors are suing the social network, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CFO David Wehner after a poor earnings report wiped out nearly $160 billion of shareholder wealth.   :D

https://www.rt.com/business (https://www.rt.com/business/434624-facebook-zuckerberg-sued-market-shareholders)

I hope to see the day when this POS corporation is down 100%.  I'm actually amazed that people are willing to put all their personal information on the internet for free.

I tweeted about this not so long ago and have been tweeting that Facebook might see a big hit in the next months (which happened -20 -30 %)

What I tweeted about is the following. Facebook is easily replaced, remember MySpace? It was easily replaced and Facebook is not different in any way that it will remain the one and the only platform alike.

Now, what is not replaceable (here I am talking relatively, where technology is updated quickly - Example above -). In my opinion, Foods are not replaced so easily. Think about Coca Cola, have been in business MANY years, didn't change too much about their product.

Also, ask people in elementary schools if they want to create a Facebook account... You will be shocked

I heard Facebook users might start paying tax because if this.
How true is it?
I just hope its just one of those unfounded rumours.

Bitcoin market capitalization is $180 billion

Is this for real?facebook is the most popular social media site in the whole world and losing this big percentage on shares is very alarming,and if this is truth then maybe this is the start of the end of bubbles.

Man where in the world that you get this stupid idea?they are gaining from the users like us because advertising is the main objective ,so theres no reason for us to be taxed.stop nonsense dude

I think that is understandable. In my country there are many blocked ads, but I do not know why. I'm really disappointed with how facebook works. I hope through this stock reduction facebook will have more management experience.

I read that some people have lost everything. And some guy made half a million dollars shorting it. But I'm not really familiar with that term.

Do you think that only facebook has such porn friends, hemophilia, murder, etc? In all social networks, I have met such accounts, I just delete them and do not accept them as friends. I know one thing that the Internet is a lot of garbage that you need to sort out when you use it and get the best for yourself.

Savvy traders can make money whether the price rises or falls.  Shorting can be a very dangerous game.  I believe Warren Buffet never shorts since he is a long term value investor.  Trying to time the market is a fool's game unless you have reliable inside information.

being a social media giant loosing the shares is common and soon after market bounce back with positive news again the prices increases

So far it's social media i believed it will definitely rebound and recover even overtake all, it happens at times. hope soon

This is what happens when you sell nothing and make millions doing it. Zuckerburg has really backed himself into a corner this time. The problem with Facebook is marketers are sick and tired of having to try and outsmart the algorithm. It's such a headache trying to build an organic following on Facebook. And nearly all of Instagram is bots these days.

The average lifespan of a company on the S&P is about 10 years or so. And the NASDAQ? Much worse, I'd imagine. The only reason Facebook has been surviving so long is because they sell the data.

Did anyone found the news behind this fall in facebook shares? Its a little bit suspicious that nothing happened and suddenly facebook falls near 20% in share value. Thanks you.

I do not see FB dying anytime soon.

They are doing major changes to their platform to keep the users engaged. Also, they keep adding acquiring other popular social networks so as to increase their user base. Mark Zucerberg is still young and has lot of energy and passion to keep FB moving forward. However, platforms like Twitter are not going to last long if they do not take some major steps to control spam.

well seems like facebook still trying to come back. well  maybe this is because the number user of facebook and many stock holders are decreasing. This is common things and pretty sure facebook is still strong company.

Never had any of those problems on twitter and youtube. U.S President Donald Trump is always on twitter.

I think this is just one of the investors does not like Facebook's Facebook policy. But believe the facebook will still surprise us. The future of dedicated networks.

Thread in bitcointalk.org: I need 100-300 'views' from Facebook bots. What's the best approach   ;D

Wow! I found this: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-election-midterm-november-results-hacking-latest-update-a8471851.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-election-midterm-november-results-hacking-latest-update-a8471851.html)

Maybe is it related to the recently price fall of FB?  ???

Bitcoin never fell more than -15% in one day. Facebook shares are more risky than bitcoin.

Facebook shares are down because of the weakness of facebook security system, many hackers who can enter the Facebook system and steal data dab people it all resulted in down the level of trust Facebook users so that the impact on the stock price itself.

Tesla loses $717.5 million in Q2, breaking own record from previous quarter

Electric car maker Tesla has racked up a record $717.5 million net loss in the second quarter of 2018, twice the previous year's number. Embattled CEO Elon Musk promised to plug the loss gap with a massive production increase. Tesla, which has posted profit only in two quarters since becoming a public company eight years ago, broke another record for quarterly net loss on Wednesday, smashing the previous record of $709.6 million set in the first quarter.While the new milestone is only slightly higher than the previous one, the contrast is more drastic in comparison to the same period last year.  In 2017, the innovative tech company reported a net loss of (only) $336 million in the second quarter. While Tesla so far has been mostly losing money at a growing pace , Musk reiterated on Wednesday he expects the company to become profitable as soon as the next quarter after it boosts production of its Model 3 vehicle, envisioned for mass marketing.

After the results were posted, Tesla issued a statement saying  that it plans to churn out from 50,000 to 55,000 vehicles in the third quarter, an ambitious goal, given its recent frantic scramble to increase output to 5,000 cars a week. While Tesla hit the long-delayed target in June, the process put additional strain on the company, forcing it to spend millions to ramp up production.While the electric car maker has failed to generate profit for yet another quarter, the trend has not apparently discouraged the market, with Tesla stock gaining 11 percent and trading at $334.18 per share after the statement was released.

https://www.rt.com/business (https://www.rt.com/business/434880-musk-tesla-record-loss)

It's all about the game and how you play it.

A google executive was killed by $50,000 prostitute or high end prostitute. That high rank google executive/manager fell for the beauty of a prostitute. Google has such employees at high positions. What will Google give to worldwide people. Think about it.

Any news abut the fall of FB? I was hoping some kind of news appearing these days justifiying the fall of FB, usually the market disscounts this kind of feeling before the news just as it ha always done. Thanks!!!!

Now facebook share price is $183. Scammers at work

When users don't like alghorytm social media they will leave it and I think Facebook needs to start fixing it from there actually when millennial has started to leave Facebook for baby boomers Facebook is a new thing. Facebook needs to see that opportunity and move it to process it as a path to victory.

Will, maybe in my own thoughts one could affect the fallen of facebook shares price due have negative news about in  not implemented  the advertisement of cryptocurrency now,because as of this moments we heards some humors thats facebook coulds not allowed the crypto to make an advertisement about crypto currency thats why i thinks,thats this will bring negative impact to the facebook community.

Everything is seems like we're heading towards a great economic destruction... The situation all around in all the areas of market is really unstable, something like a storm is approaching, and we cannot be ready for that...

One of the causes of the decline in Facebook's share value was the result of a case of abuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica, and triggering distrust of users which resulted in a decline in Facebook user growth on a monthly basis.

Well, that is possible to happen that Facebook shares price was down due to having recently rumors regarding they prohibited the cryptocurrencies ads which are very helpful to them. Those projects are willing to pay just to get ads on Facebook but now they refused I guess that has a real effect on their community.

I am sure it is not because this industry is really bigger one. The market of Facebook fluctuated because of internal and external factors and different deeds of Facebook founder Mark, who was not able to secure the public data properly. This news might have got many things to do with the current situation. Also it is true that Facebook is striving really hard these days and many people are deactivating themselves from the Facebook for security reasons. This has got to do many things with this share fall surely. I am not sure about its recovery but surely it will come back up with its shares.

Changes like what? I heard they wanted to roll out a dating platform. Wouldn't that be something! Facebook becoming the new Tinder.

Denying crypto adverts is not a big enough reason to cause a 25% selloff on Wall Street. They could care less if a platform has such ads.

Cambridge Analytica is old news. That happened several months ago.

Facebook posted shitty gains and much lower than expected new users. People are going elsewhere because it's a dead platform.

I like your attitude. 

Looks like FB rebounded somewhat and is now $180.  As I said in a previous post, I don't watch FB like I did when it first came out and I was surprised when I took a look at it recently--it has a P/E of about 28.  While Warren Buffet might not touch a stock with a multiple that high, it's nowhere near where I thought it was.  Facebook actually has decent earnings, and I own some stocks with higher P/Es than where FB is at.  When you think about how insane the internet stock boom of the 90s and early '00s was, FB isn't in that same category.  Very, very few of those old internet companies had any earnings at all.  Some of them didn't even have any revenue, just a stupid business plan that appealed to the venture capitalists!

That said, there's no way I'd buy FB stock.  I'm not sure they're going to die, because I still see a lot of people who can't pry their eyes away from their smartphones because they're on Facebook.  There's definitely that addictive quality there that you find in products like tobacco, and there's a lot to be said for that.  Plus I think they're expanding the scope of their business through some acquisitions if I'm not mistaken.  The bottom line is that they don't pay a dividend and may never.  Most tech companies don't, which means you don't get any income from owning the stock.  That's distasteful to me.

Yeah if I wanted something that didn't pay dividends I'd buy futures contracts on commodities. It's quite pointless to be spending so much on stocks and not get anything back but speculation.

One other thing I saw today is the government is looking to get Facebook to break their encryption for criminal probes, which got me thinking that a lot of the speculative money behind them is probably coming from government associates. They're probably being propped up as they are the most valuable source of information available these days.

But they have been diversifying, for sure. Instagram is the new social media of choice, which they own. Advertisers prefer it too, so they must be getting lots of revenue from it.

Donald Trump: Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people. Can’t do this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!

https://twitter.com (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032954224529817600)

Worldwide economy are dropping now and facebook is not exempted on this so bother nothing since i believe that everything is on this side also..and even if facebook drops 100% i dont care because that site is a traitor to cryptocurrency.after banning ico advertisements,they release their own coins

I agree with this wholeheartedly, but many speculators don't.  For one thing, you don't have to pay capital gains tax unless you actually sell a stock and realize those gains--and you DO have to pay tax on dividend income.  I see the advantage of that, even though I still prefer getting dividends.  Dividends, if they're consistent, at least provide a baseline gain% and some cash every quarter.

Not surprisingly.  Many corporations are seeing their organic growth slow down, so they have to do acquisitions to artificially prop their growth and profits up.  Sometimes it's a good long-term decision, sometimes not.  I'm not a big fan of social media in general, as I see it as a toxic aspect of society, and I'm even less a fan of the stocks of social media companies.  Some of them, like FB, are making tons of money now, but I'm not sure if that's viable in the long-term. 

By the way, FB stock hasn't rebounded at all since this thread was started.

Failbook, Fakebook, Fuckbook. Facebook is going down.

As much as I hate facebook they could potentially introduce bitcoin and crypto to so many people if they would do it right.

Maybe facebook is not the right site for crypto currency or facebook does not really support crypto currency. Maybe we will just not focus in using that site and take move on the other sites.

U.S President Trump claims Google ‘rigged’ search results, ‘illegal’ censorship. Vows to take action

President Donald Trump has accused search giant Google of deliberately highlighting negative news about his administration, and “controlling what we can and cannot see.” Trump vowed that the situation “will be addressed.” “Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD,” the president exclaimed via Twitter on Tuesday morning.

https://www.rt.com/usa (https://www.rt.com/usa/437054-trump-google-censorship-news)

There is inconstant manipulation of datum here in cryptocurrency  which inflicts the consumer to share prices with their fb account. Although a good means of showing how participated you are in the campaign, more critics and more findings have been conclusive for such low rates. Airdrops = FB SHARES campaign.

any technology can be overestimated as it grows. sometimes the price does not show the real value and that is normal

Maybe this have something to do with data privacy issue in which Facebook was accused of selling the data of their users. Although it has no direct evidence but the people might think that this is possible. Anyway lot of known companies have been tested by nature but still survived and i think Facebook will recover in no time.

I doubt that it is a beginning of the .com tech. I think it is a result of alot of people using a different platform that because it is outdated. In my experience, i knownof alot of people who just up and went to Twitter or IG dimoly because their parents are in FB. Maybe that is the reason why Facebook shares went down.

Good and i hope it continues dropping.

I don't hate Facebook or Zuckerberg, but what they did is really bad and also they couldn't cover it up - Which is what companies do in their circumstance. So they really deserve it.

Maybe that way they will work to improve and deliver a trustable until a certain degree, costumer experience in the way they handle the information.

The only way you can make a really big company listen is when they are losing profits.

I think it's just a conspiracy. I still believe the condition of this cryptocurrency price can be very expensive. You just need to take advantage of a good situation like this to buy as much bitcoin as you can.

After a period of initial public offerings of facebook shares, it was largely depreciated. I bet they also predicted this decline. this may be the reason why they want to extract their own crypto currency.

A lot of my friends have started to leave facebook because they have concerns over their data being stolen.  I don't believe that facebook actually deletes your information even if you permanently delete your account as well.

  i'm not agree with you as there are many social media appear like Facebook,Many of us turned to it and Facebook become full of fake accounts.
But Facebook will only turn to those who know how to earn profits and achieve their goals in the commercial market.

Facebook has had troubles for a while now. Not sure what their intensives are but they have serious issues with customer support and security & privacy matters, on which they should start working on.

Short positions against the so-called FAANG group of the largest US technology stocks have surged by more than 40% in the past year as investors bet against some of the biggest drivers of the global bull market. Bearish investors have shorted about $37 billion worth of stocks in the group, which comprises Facebook Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc., up 42% from a year ago. Amazon leads the way with almost $10 billion in short interest, according to data compiled by Bloomberg as of 28 August from financial analytics firm S3 Partners LLC.

https://www.livemint.com/Money (https://www.livemint.com/Money/05IcFWYy7HTOmsEy4KkCyI/Short-bets-on-worlds-biggest-tech-stocks-surge-to-37-billi.html)

There are at least 16 Wall Street brokers who cut their price targets after meeting Wehner. As a result, Facebook's shares fell 24% in trading. after the closing of the stock exchange.

I think the current price of $ 200 is a bit high, it is normal for the market to make some adjustments. Also, income reports can affect market confidence.
Even the last time I used Facebook was about a year or two ago, and many of my friends stopped using it too.

I don't think so. I think it's more like competition in the market for social media platforms. For one thing, facebooks appeals only to the gen x and boomers. Millennials flock in twitter and IG. I think after a while FB will regain their stocks.

100,000,000 facebook accounts could have been deleted or 100 million less facebook users most likely.

I dont believe end of dotcom tech reflected by drop the stock price. Technology always needed and we are living on digital world. Facebook or dotcom company will always moving foward and always creating innovative product to survive

How much is $500,000,000,000 ?? None of the giant companies are worth more than $150 billion

It simply means that the people are now losing interest to facebook and they are trying to pull out their money and they are going into another type of investment. It is part of the market whether it is stock market or cryptocurrency market, there is always a downfall for every stocks or cryptocurrency that you can see in the market and even the top performing stocks or coins can suffer that scenario also.

It's hard to believe that biggest social networking site to date has fell to that percent of share. Well, everything has really its own ups and downs and i believe that this peculiar things that is happening to facebook today will just pass and everything is going to be ok too. Just like cryptos, ups and downs are inevitable given the fact that crypto is a very volatile asset.

Facebook was supposed to be a social media platform. But nowadays it is acting like a political organization. Recently, they acted against a few members of the Myanmar army, accusing them of crimes against the Bangladeshi immigrants.

In general, the facebook is just a community of democracy with different thoughts and idea. Maybe the management should cut all the accounts of those people who use fb for a shady post on some serious issue. Because some crazy people used facebook as a tool to spread a fake news.

Lol.
It was a unique coincidence.
However the friend request depends on your search history, your mutual friends. But these days facebook is used for several illegel works and scamming peoples so yes, these kind of profiles can be harmfull and it is always better to stay safe and far away from such profiles. Facebook is a good medium of social media servers and also it is much effective for spreading any kind of news globally as facebook is been connected globally.
The shares which has fallen will again rise back as it is the common activity in share market history.

Today, facebook shares price fell to $162. Facebook going to $80

sometimes it enters without notice, and that can damage reputation when porn sites suddenly appear on our porch. I think the security of FB is now very vulnerable, and maybe that is also one reason for the decline in FB share prices.

As a online worker, I would do some data checking work where I had to mark websites as adult/sex/porn and normal websites and my facebook account was bombard with sex websites.

So facebook tracks your online activities and promotes sex industry.

I purchased a chair from amazon.in and it broke in 2 months. No refund and no help from amazon. I lost the money and all the discounts I got in 4 years from one bad purchase.

Stock markets going down -30% to -40%

Decentralized markets are winning the game. I`m not surprise that fb shares are going down, stock market too, its what most of us expected. Look at how many decentralized social networks are popping out, how many decentralized exchanges are popping out, they will replace centralized ones one day, I always say sooner or later. This decentralized services offer returning of revenue, they plan to share some profit with users, when that become popular and with good advertising it will, the best one friend to friend like bitcoin started, this services will replace old ones. I believed in that few years ago, when I look where is blockchain now I believe even more!

Nope this is still the new  beggining of cryptocurrency. As we all know that facebook is one a good company that could share your thoughts to let somebody new you feel in the newsfeed of facebook that your face or selfiew could be applied. Well anyway, It is just facebook who fail in their ads but the crypto they are beginning are storage and no more mr. nice guy.

I don't mind the news about political, Facebook can use to show  up about crypto and for me it will be good for the future of crypto currency if we continue share about the good in crypto.

Decentralization is very dangerous. The owner of bitconnect.com got arrested in India for $13 billion ponzi scheme using Bitcoins. Be careful of giant ponzi schemes.

Inform yourself, read about it. Bitconnect is decentralized as any bank in the world. What is bitconnect do you know? With bitconnect coins you earn interest on your balance when you storing their coins in wallet, where do they get so high interest? I`m here for years, and you can find warnings about bitconnect in 2015, check it out. I don`t know how you connected bitcoin and bitconnect, except first 3 letters everything else is different. It`s not the only ponzi scheme on blockchain, learn to find informations, if someone promise you too much maybe you need to think twice about how truthful that is. Dangerous is to invest yourself or your money in any scheme, dangerous is for entire world to continue with this economy that leads us in disaster. What we need to do is to focus on the good things and support good things, good things doesn`t bring profit and fortune in few days, big promises doesn`t work. It`s better to trust in people around the world than in any kind of politicians!

8000 facebook users die everyday

The numbers of the dead on Facebook are growing fast. By 2012, just eight years after the platform was launched, 30 million users with Facebook accounts had died. That number has only gone up since. Some estimates claim more than 8,000 users die each day.

At some point in time, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones. Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard.

http://www.bbc.com/future (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead)

After reporting their Q2 earnings, Facebook took a large hit, but they can and should be able to recover from this hit. It will take a lot more for Facebook to fall of the face of the Earth. Another fact I read was about Europe and the new advertising laws, which is Facebook’s primary source of revenue.

No matter how we see the shares falling or rising, Facebook remains one of the biggest brand so far as social media platforms are concerned. It is a common thing for the shares of big brands to rise and fall once in awhile. The key point is that you need to find a way to come up again once the fall comes.

this shows that the decline in the price of a commodity does not only occur in crypto currencies, in the world of stocks is also experiencing it or is this the impact of the fall in the price of crypto currencies? but what is certain in my opinion is this is an opportunity that we can use to the maximum extent possible to get the maximum profit when the price increases

Our technology is under-estimated every day. I think this is a correction because the technology now does not give credibility to the user. facebook has stolen the information of so many users and it deserves punishment.