You may not be smarter than Bill Gates, but you can still beat him at his own game! According to his own calculations - paying two hundred and forty million dollars for a mere 1.6 percent stake in Facebook - Microsoft and Mr. Gates has essentially valued the world’s hottest social networking site at an eye-popping fifteen billion dollars.
Why would the world’s biggest computer company put so much into a website where users hang out and “poke” each other just for fun? Because they, along with other massive internet operations like Yahoo! and Google, see Facebook as the face of Web 3.0 (beyond Web 2.0) and the future of internet marketing.
To begin with, Facebook represents a huge shift in online thinking and technology to the big corporations - the face of Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 and the semantic web movement - and they’re desperate not to be left behind.
So, apparently, are all the online users out there as well. The numbers speak for themselves - Facebook already has over 50 million in its user base. Not only that, it’s growing at the astounding pace of 200,000 new users a day, faster than any other social network site.
The reason for the sudden explosive growth has to do with the Facebook environment and the crucial decision made in May of 2007 by the company management to allow outside vendors to develop new Facebook tools and applications for the site. Suddenly, all sorts of fun free games, toys and interface devices were available to residents of this online community in what came to resemble a standalone operating system that had nothing to with the user’s own computer OS.
Facebook isn’t limiting this “Facebook Family” to the USA, but reaching out to people around the world, “internationalizing” the site by bringing users in other countries into their online community. Meaning Facebook’s database and technology are both growing at a breakneck pace, providing an amazing new forum for internet marketers.
No wonder Microsoft opened up their wallet so wide. Facebook just might be the “perfect storm” of marketing opportunity that the super-corporations are searching high and low for - and willing to pay what it takes to be in the mix.
The simple secret that the super-corporations miss, however, is that you don’t have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to “own” a piece of or participate in the dazzling Facebook marketing opportunity. There’s a much cheaper and easier way for your marketing operation to get a shot at those new and desirable Facebook users.
With a Facebook Bot / Facebook Friend Adder such as Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition, you can easily deliver your message with Mass Facebook Friend Requests, Mass Facebook Friend Messages, and Mass Facebook Friend Pokes. This Facebook Friend Adder is the kind of Facebook marketing software that can easily help the small marketer make their way into same kind of waters where the big marketing fish swim. Add millions of friends to your marketing base with Stealth Friend Bomber - this Facebook Bot won’t stop until your message is poked everywhere on the site.
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