Comments on: How much is a social network worth? http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/10/25/how-much-is-a-social-network-worth/ Telecoms industry news and opinion Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: mfundo http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/10/25/how-much-is-a-social-network-worth/#comment-188 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:21:45 +0000 http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/10/25/how-much-is-a-social-network-worth/#comment-188 the 15 billion value tag was obviously inflated by the competition between microsoft and google. In the increasingly globalised societies that we live in, online social networks like fb and hi5 become an essential "updating each other" tool which means you have thousands of people scatered all around the world accessing each other's latest news on the same medium which is an advertiser's dream. This makes fb a global advertising medium which is what pushes its value high and the more people join, the higher this value should go up. but @ $15 billion, facebook seems way overvalued!!! the 15 billion value tag was obviously inflated by the competition between microsoft and google.

In the increasingly globalised societies that we live in, online social networks like fb and hi5 become an essential “updating each other” tool which means you have thousands of people scatered all around the world accessing each other’s latest news on the same medium which is an advertiser’s dream.

This makes fb a global advertising medium which is what pushes its value high and the more people join, the higher this value should go up. but @ $15 billion, facebook seems way overvalued!!!

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