On my August 17 post, I mentioned the need for a game changer.
Lo and behold, on August 20th, The Motley Fool claims there is one, and cites it as one of three reasons to buy facebook stock right now.
I don't think "Sponsored Stories" is a game changer. It sounds more like search manipulation to me and people may go sour on it once they catch on that they are being treated like cattle who will believe the first ten items of their news feed. Rick Aristotle's claim it has a "viral component in it" just makes him look desperate.
But what do I know? I'm a fucking cynic.
I tell you what I do know: With Peter Thiel jumping ship, I would take his actions as better advice than this ~Motely Fool~ character, who claims facebook stock will play out similarly to Google's.
He sounds like a paid shill who is more interested in your subscribing to his news bulletins ($200 per year) than anything else. In FACT, he sounds like a SPONSORED STORY.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/20/3-reasons-to-buy-facebook-now/He's not even
mentioning the
possibility that facebook could easily become the next myspace.
That's what I really want. Facebook itself to go under.
Bad stock performance will not kill facebook, whereas, if facebook dies, the stock performance will inexorably follow.
It's so strange. The only thing required to kill facebook is to stop using their suck ass platform of networking with people, the vast majority of whom you shouldn't be networking with in the first place.