So how can someone get a piece of this from here (Kenya)?

Give a justification for your assessment

open a stock trading account in US as a foreigner and wait for the IPO, then buy the shares on the opening day.

At Granite Investment Advisors in New Hampshire, Chief Investment Officer Scott Schermerhorn has already been fielding queries from clients eager to get in on the action.

"We had some clients call and once we step them through the numbers, they sober up," he said. "The valuation is 100 times earnings in a stock market that is trading at 12."

"At the end of the day, if you have a small amount of money that you are in a position to lose a chunk of it and you want to speculate on Facebook, go ahead," he added. "But don't use money that you really need to save to do it. I would put it in Microsoft, which is dirt cheap right now."

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http://www.reuters.com/a...t-idUSTRE81206020120203

What! This is a gold mine! This guys are holding so much cash and the only logical reason they are doing the IPO is to get some cash to thank the people who have made FB what it is. FB is estimated to be worth about $100b and the IPO is for $5b. Please justify your claim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNHWYUm7ZU

And with Goldman sucks (GS) involved, well a repeat of this will not surprise me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLx2Xc1EXLg

At a P/E of 100 times it will perform exactly like safcom..
After listing it will go up significantly but wen the market realizes that earnings will never catch up to the price it will collapse 50% from its listing price..

Investing 101: just because a company is highly profitable does not mean its shares are cheap¡¡

Value investors always crush & destroy growth investors in the long term..

Social Media is a bubble...sell when things are still hot...sometimes the best investment decision is when to exit not enter.

sasa excit ni nini?????
You guys need to think outside-in. Facebook is very valuable especially now that it has Google's backing
1. As long as there will be teenagers and tweenagers, Facebook will stay valuable. However, FB has to keep innovating and keeping their target audience captive lest it goes the way of myspace. Thus far I think FB does a good job on innovation.
2.How important do you think the info that people voluntarily give on the FB page is? How much is it worth to a marketer to know what someone likes/dislikes, where they work, what their location is, what their age is, what their socio-economic status is etc etc.Plus marketers can reach out to a target audience by asking them to like a certain product and thus being able to market even more stuff to them directly.
3. How valuable is it to the US government to know what people's affiliations are, what relationship they have with different people, what their recent activites are ( especially if they are on parole)
4. How valuable is FB to developed worlds to finally have a record of people in the developing world, how to reach them, what they like, what their political inclinations are, basically being able to analyze their habits and use that for economic gain.
I wouldnt write off the FB IPO, Wallstreet will embrace it since its a great marketing tool, the only question is how long will they embrace it for/ how long till the bubble bursts. Some bubbles burst immediately, but some like Apple grow enormous legs

Apple has a forward P/E of 14 so do not compare it to facebook..

Absolutely NOTHING can justify a P/E of 100 especially in these uncertain days.. That is just pure greed¡¡