Facebook IPO: The Facts and Figures Behind One Of The Largest Offerings Ever

How much are your Facebook friends worth? It's difficult to put a price tag on friendships -- but we might soon find out what Wall Street thinks.

Signs point to Facebook going public in May of this year, and analysts are already projecting that the social network will value itself at a whopping $100 billion. With 500 million daily users, the math works out to $200 for each person! Maybe all that time you spent using Facebook in the library instead of studying wasn't a waste of time after all?

Check out the facts and figures behind Facebook's much-anticipated IPO:

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[angel higgins]

01:01 AM on 02/01/2012

how do i buy shares?

[dcol]

12:08 PM on 01/19/2012

Another coup for Wall Street. Average people never get in on this action. The 1% will run up the stock to riduculous levels and then let the public suckers have the crumbs left over.

[IndependentAndProud]

01:59 PM on 01/21/2012

Yep. Keep an eye open for when it splits.

[angel higgins]

01:01 AM on 02/01/2012

how do this work,cant we do something about it?

[kinogod]

07:31 AM on 01/19/2012

FB will go public and as per the 1% class, others will not be allowed to buy in till after the run up. Yawn.

[ancientuno]

11:32 AM on 01/18/2012

Facebook will never get a dime out of me. I survived quite nicely before Facebook and will do so after Facebook is long gone. Quite frankly I haven't understood people who would post their every movement of the day on a social network and then complain about their privacy being taken away from them.

[dcol]

12:10 PM on 01/19/2012

Exactly. Where do you think the govt, law enforcement, and employers go to see what people are doing.

[Erik W Grossberg]

08:31 AM on 01/18/2012

I think the Facebook IPO is going to be the IPO of this decade

[dcol]

12:12 PM on 01/19/2012

and does it really matter? none of the 99% are allowed to buy it.

[TeebagsKiLLingAMERICA]

02:00 AM on 01/18/2012

Ask your FACEBOOK " friends" to HELP YOU MOVE...
That will tell you how much they are worth.

[Tenley]

12:37 AM on 01/18/2012

If you don't pay for it, you're not the customer. You're the product. I miss the pre-Facebook real-time chat rooms, btw, where you could use a screen name. Facebook is strangely inhibiting -- it's hard to be political if you're friends with professional colleagues; there are family members you likely don't want knowing your every escapade or rant. And heck. You're now "friends" with a bunch of people you never liked in high school and who never liked you.

[See Glasgow Live]

06:03 AM on 01/18/2012

@ Tenly!....So true in all the point's you make!...what happened to the Chat's with friend's?...were you didn't need to worry back then of being monitored? no reason why as Mark then Intended?....and as for all your so-called private thought's and remark's? they are!!! noted and filed in a private profile about you! whilst all your family who may feel they have your or you have their same thinking in mind! well now they know what your private or so-called private Social Networking thought's are in and out the Box!...and as for Mud slinging? well there's plenty of opportunity now for that to be carried out by people who don't even know you! but Bhoy! once the Mud's thrown? well it's like Shit! ...it has!!! stuck, stuck big time, onto you and your family or whatever angle these unknown name's want to destroy! yeah! it's your choice to be on it or not?, but the Human psyche is a complex addictive one which need's fed and we all on Face Book feed each other! we are as you say not the customer we don't pay yet? but we are The Market the one that Bidder's go to buy our Soul! if not just a piece of our Background and buying trend;s!....etc forever!.....Smiling!. ;-)

[ancientuno]

11:27 AM on 01/18/2012

Personally I don't think anyone should say anything on the Internet that they wouldn't say to a persons face.

[Myshkin57]

12:21 AM on 01/18/2012

There's no way that display ad revenue includes Google's PPC revenue. Google makes a very small percentage of their income from display ads. If you add PPC revenue for Google ($28 billion for 2011 vs. just over $4 billion for Facebook) then you see how much Facebook is overvalued.

[exitBxC]

12:20 AM on 01/18/2012

If you get something for free - YOU'RE THE PRODUCT.

[Douglas W Sullivan]

11:05 AM on 01/19/2012

This belongs on a T-Shirt for real!

[mateoconifer]

06:31 PM on 01/17/2012

OWS should make sure we all un-occupy facebook for 2 weeks to send a message.

[mateoconifer]

06:25 PM on 01/17/2012

There should be a big boycott of facebook, turn it off for 2 weeks and watch wall street wee themselves

[dcol]

02:42 PM on 01/17/2012

If you gave me the $200 I still wouldn't give up my freedom by being part of that social network. Their watching you.

[duh]

12:10 AM on 01/18/2012

It's scary. HuffPo is getting to be the same problem.

[dcol]

12:17 PM on 01/19/2012

Huff is not a social network. Users are totally anoymous to other users.

[iamwired]

12:29 PM on 01/17/2012

I'm going to roll my spare cash into this investmen... Oh wait, I'm broke. Never mind. I'll go back to sleep and dream about it.