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By tovarichpeter   Follow   Thu, 2 Aug 2012, 12:02pm   1,512 views   15 comments
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  1. iwog


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    1   1:28pm Thu 2 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike  

    Yes they do. I think my wife created about 6 ghost accounts to play her Cafe world with.

  2. APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich


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    2   2:22pm Thu 2 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike  

    Half of the accounts are synthetic IDs established by fraud artists to scam the occasional real person who may log onto Facebook. The other half are synthetic IDs driven by bots established by Fabebook to drive up page views.

  3. Dan8267


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    3   8:19pm Fri 3 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike  

    No way it's that low.

  4. APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich


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    4   9:35pm Fri 3 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike  

    Zuckfuck fisted every single one of his investors, thinking they'd be fine with fisting the markets, the SEC, and everyone in the universe.

    NOT SO, ZUCKFUCK!

    You are fucking DOOMED!

    You will be a toy for neonazi serial killers in a supermax, a TOY NAMED BITCH!

    They'll make a XXX movie of your prison story at the end by that very name.

    Crazy old men with alcoholic dementia will see it and masterbate to it in porn theatres - until it's discarded as unprofitable cinema sewerage.

    DIE, YOU FUCK, DIE!

  5. Michinaga


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    5   11:33am Sat 4 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    Some of the "members" are unborn children:

  6. Dan8267


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    6   9:05pm Sat 4 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    The only reason Facebook ever got popular was people trying to get laid.

  7. curious2


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    7   9:23pm Sat 4 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  
  8. Randy H


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    8   7:24am Mon 6 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says

    Half of the accounts are synthetic IDs established by fraud artists to scam the occasional real person who may log onto Facebook. The other half are synthetic IDs driven by bots established by Fabebook to drive up page views.

    So we should have seen this coming way back, given that this is pretty much EXACTLY what happened with the SecondLife virtual world bubble. Only on a smaller scale and it popped before they had a chance to file an S1.

    And by "we", I mean, *me*. I will be honest and admit to buying 100 shares of FB at the offering price on Etrade. Figured I'd hedge my bets just in case there was a bubble.

    Shoulda known better.

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    9   7:58am Mon 6 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    Randy H says

    Shoulda known better.

    You couldn't, not even in principle. Don't think that when you guess right it's because of skill, and when you guess wrong it's because of stupidity. It's simply chance.

    A bubble, by its nature, must be unexpected or else speculators will so heavily poor money into the bubble at the beginning stage that the masses will think it's too late and thus the bubble will stall before inflating to truly bubble levels.

    For a bubble to get big, it is necessary for people to be optimistic but surprised. No one can expect the bubble to get that big in order for it to do so, at least not in the initial phases of the bubble.

  10. Randy H


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    10   10:25am Mon 6 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    So according to that rationale, my attempting to anticipate a possible bubble contributed to there not being one.

    Interesting.

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    11   10:29am Mon 6 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike  

    Dan8267 says

    The only reason Facebook ever got popular was people trying to get laid.

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    12   10:44am Mon 6 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    COLD AS ICE!!!

  13. everything


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    13   11:37am Mon 6 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    Don't give Randy to hard of a time, he's not out to much yet, I think any/all of us who play with our brokerage accounts have been burned, it's easy to get sucked up into shit. My last loss was $6xx something and it's gone forever, the board of directors just disbanded..

    I just don't know about facebook, knowing myself, I think it would change my life, who knows . if it would be for the better or worse.

    I agree Facebook was a good slut site in the beginning, one guy I knew, he would just get in his car and take off for the weekends, he literally had them lined up and ready to go via facebook.

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    14   2:00pm Mon 6 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

    You guys can give me a hard time if you want to. I was trying to be a smarty pants and get in early on the next bubble.

    My mental accounting bias allows me to 'write off' any of these speculative losses against the absurdly lucky speculative gain I made back in 2008 shorting US 30 year treasury futures.

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    15   11:51am Thu 9 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

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