Bangkok Is Top Town For Facebookers In The World, As Asia Fuels Growth

[DrTuner]

The IPO seems to follow the same hype track as the company itself, lots of noise, no real uuuumpf. Like the blingbling'd Honda City's you see around here.

As for privacy issues, just don't sign up. Sorted.

[Nisa]

Nisa, I wasn't being specific about that one post, you keep saying things that don't make any sense practically everywhere. Take this, for example:

I can definitely see the multiple accounts making a lot more sense with Google+ because of the way the application differs and the extended people (strangers) you are connecting with. I mean you can have one for business, one for connecting with folks into sports and one for friends.... Facebook on the other hand, has so many layers of privacy options and groups you can associate people with that determines who sees what.

It's not "on the other hand" because these privacy options and groups were practically invented by G+ and you don't need to have different accounts for sports and friends, you just put them into different circles and they'll never cross.

This is going way off topic. I get it that you like Facebook and can talk about its advantages forever and maybe you should start a thread in Internet part of Thaivisa about that.

Another bad news about Facebook IPO - the underwriters apparently hidden important information about FB's dropping performance while promoting to the general public. This is not only unfair, it could actually be illegal. Facebook might be complicit in the scam, too.

http://www.businessi...orecasts-2012-5

It's the first I hear about, let's see if the story picks up the speed in the next couple of days. Could be nothing, could be a lawsuit, could be another bad publicity piece for FB?

I believe the only point I was originally making about Google+ was it is common for people to have multiple user accounts where it is not with Facebook. This was simply in response to the ridiculous notion that multiple accounts play any role in Bangkok being the number one connect FB city.

But as for G+ vs FB in terms of multiple users, it is a non-comparison. One forces it upon you in some scenarios and the other bans it. There may not be a need from a user standpoint but many take advantage of having been forced to have multiple accounts. When I signed up, I had a personal email account and one I used for business as well as a spam email. I ignored the spam email account but given all the suggestions of connecting with friends by their emails being in my address book, I created a personal (friend page) and then I had all the business related folks showing up to connect with from my business related email account and created a professional user account. I know many people also did the same.

By the way, I've got no vested or emotional interest in FB and could care less about what the stock is doing or if the company fails or becomes the largest company in the world. I think your perception that I care is driving your posts. I also don't have anything against G+ but don't use it because it offers me no additional value and actually offers less simply because FB is the much larger of the two with considerably more users. If FB ceased to exist or G+ somehow became the leader in the space and where everyone I know or search for is likely to be connected, then I would move over to G+ and wouldn't think twice about it ... at least not beyond the slight irritation of having to start over again.

[IsaanUSA]

Can we just agree that people use different websites differently and for different reasons?

Everybody is different and people do things differently. Who cares why they do it? Just let it be.

[volk666]

US regulatory bodies promised to investigate the matter of hiding important information from investors in the run up to Facebook IPO.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18163687

The crux of the matter is that adding all those millions of Asian users does not increase company's revenue and IPO underwriters knew about the effect it had on company's profits but didn't tell anyone apart from selected group of investors. Oh well, business as usual.

The stock dropped 20% in the first two days of trading.

[Nisa]

US regulatory bodies promised to investigate the matter of hiding important information from investors in the run up to Facebook IPO.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-18163687

The crux of the matter is that adding all those millions of Asian users does not increase company's revenue and IPO underwriters knew about the effect it had on company's profits but didn't tell anyone apart from selected group of investors. Oh well, business as usual.

The stock dropped 20% in the first two days of trading.

Where in your link does it even mention Asia, let alone Bangkok or Thailand, having anything to do with the "important information" being hidden?

As for the stock drops as the price settles, this has no impact on Facebook and just investors that rolled the dice that the certain initial volatility that would be involved in such a highly publicized IPO would initially go in their favor. No matter what way you slice it, Facebook and those who held stock options have made out HUGELY in this deal and still will even if the stock settles below 30 .... but who really cares about their stock price as it relates to this thread?

[Fookhaht]

Especially duing work. Prefetc work ethics, NOT

My office has embraced FB, and utilizes it to enhance inter-office communication. We have discovered a previously-untapped communications tool for thousands of our university students. We stay in touch with them throughout the Thai summer. We monitor our students' activities while doing work/study & work/travel internships abroad. During the school year, we have a sub-page for each class and students keep abreast of class announcements and homework assignments.

It's a god-send for educators.

It's a godsend for dictators too

Is that why they typically ban it?

[volk666]

Where in your link does it even mention Asia, let alone Bangkok or Thailand, having anything to do with the "important information" being hidden?

From the first link on the subject I posted here

"According to Reuters, the underwriter analysts cut their estimates after Facebook issued an amended IPO prospectus in which the company mentioned, vaguely, that recent trends in which users were growing faster than revenue had continued into the second quarter."

Where does this user grown come from for Facebook if not Asia and Bangkok in particular?

The meaning of this is that getting more and more users here does not generate revenue for the company. Based on this information (and that's just eh public bit of it) the underwriters CUT their estimates for profit growth.

Now FB is being sued.

[gand]

Especially duing work. Prefetc work ethics, NOT

My office has embraced FB, and utilizes it to enhance inter-office communication. We have discovered a previously-untapped communications tool for thousands of our university students. We stay in touch with them throughout the Thai summer. We monitor our students' activities while doing work/study & work/travel internships abroad. During the school year, we have a sub-page for each class and students keep abreast of class announcements and homework assignments.

It's a god-send for educators.

It's a godsend for dictators too

Is that why they typically ban it?

The office must not care about security then.

[Nisa]

Where in your link does it even mention Asia, let alone Bangkok or Thailand, having anything to do with the "important information" being hidden?

From the first link on the subject I posted here

"According to Reuters, the underwriter analysts cut their estimates after Facebook issued an amended IPO prospectus in which the company mentioned, vaguely, that recent trends in which users were growing faster than revenue had continued into the second quarter."

Where does this user grown come from for Facebook if not Asia and Bangkok in particular?

The entire planet.

[volk666]

North American and European markets are already saturated, the grown comes from Asia. Or do you need another link to prove that, then you'll miss it and raise the point again two posts later?