Originally Posted by
Jonny
As for facebook - it won't last as a long term investment. If you look at any of the web based companies from 10 years ago, nearly all of them are now on the ropes and virtually worthless...
Yahoo, Altavista, Ask.com, Lycos, Friends Reunited, Myspace - they were all the big names worth a fortune in their time, and they've all been superceded by new 'big' things. The same is more than likely to happen to Facebook in a few years - already the usage statistics already say that people don't trust adverts on facebook and won't click through, which is a large component of their business model...