Facebook investors: "I am disappoint."

Today marked the day that Facebook released its first earnings report as a public company. There was some good news, but enough bummer news—a net loss of $157 million— to disappoint investors, who "fled from the stock in after-hours trading." (NYT)

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hassenpfeffer

I am shocked, SHOCKED at this news. A thin man with his hoodie string pulled tight to cover his face is roaming the streets of Palo Alto aimlessly.
https://twitter.com/PhoetrySlam Cyran0

I wondered what the hell was going on with this last week’s big ‘suggest a friend’ drive.

At first, I suspected it was a lead-up to site wide Timeline implementation, however, now I think it was just Facebook trying to game the numbers.
fuzzyfuzzyfungus

Yo dog, I herd you bought a stock with a stratospheric P/E ratio and no obvious plans for growth, so your investment made about as much sense as this memetic allusion doesn’t…
- Ipo
  
  Livestock.
Xof

“But the important thing for us is to stay focused on the fact that we’re the same company now as we were before.”
Yeah. We noticed.