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The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.

The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.

Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults

a study from the Pew Research Center

Tweet counts have increased from 5,000 daily in 2007 to 90 million daily in 2010, while Facebook () went from 30 million users in 2007 to more than 500 million users today

Last week my vague feelings of unease about social networking were fanned by a fascinating study by the Mental Health Foundation, which blamed high levels of loneliness among young people on their use of virtual, rather than real, communication. Dubbed the “Eleanor Rigby generation”, those aged 18-34 (84% of whom use the internet regularly) are the most likely to be lonely, according to the report. And 31% admitted that they spent too much time online rather than face to face.

The psychologist Dr Aric Sigman says that social networking sites undermine social skills and the ability to read body language.

Von Facebook wird in fünf bis sechs Jahren kein Mensch mehr reden", so der deutsche Zukunftsforscher Matthias Horx.

Es gibt einen Offline-Trend. Menschen gehen bewusst weg vom Internet und verweigern es. Die Frage ist, wie groß diese Bewegung wird.

Am Beispiel Google Street View "wird plötzlich klar, dass die neue Digitalität nicht vor dem Gartenzaun haltmacht. Wir werden noch viele solche Dinge erfahren"

Die Zeiten, in den sich der Informationsfluss in der arabischen Welt einfach staatlicherseits kontrollieren ließ, sind vorbei.Und es sind vor allem die Neuen Medien wie das Soziale Netzwerk Facebook, die Internet-Tagebücher der Blogger und der Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter, auf denen sich Nachrichten, die den arabischen Regierungen nicht genehm sind, wie ein Lauffeuer verbreiten.

Mehr Facebook-User als ZeitungsleserDas Internet ist für das Regime in Ägypten zum Oppositionsführer geworden. Gerade Facebook wird nicht nur in Ägypten, sondern überall in der arabischen Welt zu einem wichtigen Kommunikationsmittel, jenseits der staatlichen Zensur und der roten Linien, an die sich auch die unabhängige Presse halten muss. In der arabischen Welt gibt es inzwischen laut einer Studie der Agentur Spot on Public Relation in Dubai mehr Facebook-Nutzer als Zeitungsleser.

Demnach nutzen 15 Millionen Menschen in der arabischen Welt Facebook, verglichen mit der Auflage von etwas weniger als 14 Millionen Zeitungen, die auf Arabisch, Englisch und Französisch in der Region erscheinen."Wie ein Virus""Facebook und andere Social Networks beginnen nun zu definieren, wie Menschen Informationen entdecken und teilen und wie sie sich eine Meinung bilden", sagt Carington Malin, Vorstand von Spot on Public Relation.

Dunbar's number it basically says that the most amount of people that you can maintain stable social relationships with is 150

Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.

Morten Hansen's fantastic book on Collaboration in which he states that the real value of collaboration and of networks doesn't come from strong relationships and networks but from weak one's. 

Having a terms-of-service agreement with these new media providers will make it easier for government agencies to create pages and use them to dramatically increase access to information, offer education on government services, and further empower citizens to interact with government.

For the past six months, a coalition of agencies led by GSA has been working with new media providers to develop terms of service that can be agreed to by federal agencies. The new agreements resolve any legal concerns found in many standard terms and conditions that pose problems for federal agencies, such as liability limits, endorsements, freedom of information, and governing law

"We need to get official information out to sites where people are already visiting and encourage them to interact with their government," says GSA Acting Administrator Paul Prouty. “Millions of Americans visit new media sites every day. The new agreements make it easier for the government to provide official information to citizens via their method of choice.”

Facebook ist das grösste soziale Netzwerk und verbindet bald 600 Millionen Menschen. Sie stellen täglich über 1 Milliarde Informationsinhalte auf Zuckerbergs Netz.

Paradoxerweise hat das unser Miteinanderleben auf verschiedenen Ebenen verkompliziert. Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist die permanente Pflege der virtuellen Identität.

Im Politischen sind soziale Netzwerke ein effizientes Mobilisierungsmittel für Protestbewegungen. In Iran etwa organisierte sich die Opposition vor den Wahlen 2009 über Twitter, Facebook und Youtube