Facebook madness!

Submitted by TAR Tom on Wed, 26/09/2007 - 2:24pm. facebook | madness

You may have heard about Microsoft buying a share of Facebook. The rumoured purchase of a 5% stake in Facebook for between $300 and $500 million values the social networking site at a staggering $10 billion.

Say that again in your best Dr. Evil voice - "ten billion dollars"

Following on from the recent Billionaires Toyshop ideas, what else would $10 billion buy you?

How about:

469 tonnes of gold
127 million online subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal - enough for everyone in Japan

Anyone still think these numbers are normal?

What else? $10 billion is also the total GDP of Bolivia. It's also the total combined 2006 profit of Google *and* Yahoo.

It's like someone's wound the clock back and we're in 2001 again. Shove a .com in your companies name and ask for your millions - no number too ridiculous!

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