Anyone else excited for Facebook's IPO?

facebook IPOした！？

Facebook is filing for an IPO. So they are finally going to go public. Do you think this will improve the product or will wall street affect a great social tool?
Facebook seen filing $5B IPO plans - Sacramento Business Journal

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Go the F**k Back to Sleep, Silicon Valley: Facebook IPO Likely to File Later Today at Earliest

U ALL REALLY SHOULD WATCH THIS VIDEO,,GOOD,,
Pricing Facebook's IPO

Yesterday, I spent most of my time talking about Google+. This evening I get to shift gears and visit with my friends at WBIR Channel 10 to talk about the upcoming Facebook IPO and Facebook's new Timeline feature. Tune in or watch online if you're interested. The interview should start sometime around 5:35 (Eastern).

Would you buy some IPO stock if you could get it at the IPO price?
Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

About a thousand Facebook employees will become millionaires when FB releases their IPO in May. Wow!

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Reboot Systems: ON

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Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?

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Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?

I'm investing all my money in facebook once it IPO's since facebook helps me make my money!

FACEBOOK, welcome to Wall Street! Just a $5B IPO will make many Facebook employees very rich but the bigger question is what would be the next Facebook's growth invesment opportunities? Would Facebook dominate the Social Media arena? Buy Twitter, and make Google just a follower, and what about the Chinese Facebook clones?

Off course, it all depends on Mark Zuckerberg leadership. It is questionable whether Zuckerberg would have the CEO skills to lead Facebook to success and continue to create shareholder value?

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Accused teacher blindfolded kids for ‘tasting’ test, source says
January 31, 2012 | 3:10 pm

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Mark BerndtThe "game" conceived by Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, 61, was a tasting test during which he kept the children blindfolded, sources familiar with the investigation said.

Berndt is accused of committing lewd acts on at least 23 children, including blindfolding them and spoon-feeding them a white substance that authorities say was the teacher's semen.

Children told investigators that they were being enlisted in a tasting game, according to a district source who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak. They were supposed to say whether the substance was sweet or salty and whether they liked the taste. The blindfolds were necessary, Berndt allegedly said, "because he was going to put on bright lights to take the pictures and he didn't want to hurt their eyes."

FULL COVERAGE: Mark Berndt

The photos were apparently taken in Berndt's classroom. The teacher frequently kept his door locked, which was against school policy, but not an uncommon practice among teachers who want to limit interruptions.

The alleged victims, photographed one at a time, apparently included his current and former students and possibly some he'd never taught. Berndt allegedly put the substance around the mouth of a child and asked the child to lick it off his or her lips.

"The students shared that they didn't like the taste of it," in the case of the liquid they described as salty, said the district insider.

AUDIO: Listen to principal's message

District officials said they have no record of any child, parent or staff member ever complaining about Berndt or raising a concern.

Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy offered a swift condemnation Tuesday of Berndt.

"I find it disgusting, I find it reprehensible," Deasy told The Times. "I hope this man spends the rest of his life in prison."

Deasy said Berndt was removed from the classroom immediately after the district was notified of the allegations and he was fired by the school board at its next meeting.

The cache of 400 photos being reviewed by authorities includes head shots or pictures of smiling children and other more disturbing images of children gagged or blindfolded or both, according to sources who have seen them.

All of the children were fully clothed in the pictures. Some included disturbing images of children with a spoon near their faces; in the spoon was a milky liquid.

Sgt. Dan Scott of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the photos were perplexing because the children were smiling and appeared not to be in distress. Detectives went to his classroom, where they found a spoon in a trash bin that matched a spoon seen in the images.

They tested a substance on the spoon and found semen containing DNA that matches the teacher's, Scott said.

"We didn't have a felony until the semen was discovered," Scott said.

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-- Howard Blume and Richard Winton

as a parent this makes me sick to my stomach and he should be put under the prison with big bubba as a celly.

I had decided several weeks ago that it was useless to try to keep my Facebook activity private--especially with the changes. Today's Dallas Morning News article assembled by The New York Times titled, "Facebook poised to file for IPO," reveals just how impossible it is (seems to me). Still, the benefits for me outweigh the lack of privacy. I would rather have Facebook than not have Facebook.