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Several hundred million people are willing to invest a portion of their finite time every day visiting and interacting with content only available via Facebook. Winning people's attention is a zero sum game (if you gain it your competitors lose it) and attention is a scarce resource. The strong network effects of having all your friends in one place makes facebook's position very defensible. All that adds up to high intrinsic value.


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