Facebook IPO explained ... in cartoon form!

By Helen A.S. Popkin

NMA/YouTube

"Facebook, the social media giant that is a dominant force on the Internet, filed papers Wednesday to raise $5 billion in the most highly anticipated initial public offering of stock in years,"?writes Martin Wolk in msnbc.com's Bottom Line. The deal could value the company as a whole at up to $100 billion, and make a lot of the company's employees millionaires ... and even billionaires.

But is the social network worth it? You could read the endless stories on every angle of this infamous IPO and figure it out for yourself??? or you can watch the latest in Facebook's animated antics in this new offering from Taiwan's New Media Animation.

As with NMA's one-minute summary "The Social Network," the tale of Zuckerberg's stalker?and Zuck's ethics n' eatin' project, the Facebook?CEO?is cartoonified as a little boy in a mustard-yellow hoodie and baggie shorts. Here we?see Zuck in business mode, slaughtering a bull, beating up?Ronald McDonald and auctioning off one unfortunate Facebook user to Facebook advertisers.

So is Facebook worth a $100 billion market cap that would make it one of the most valuable companies in the world? Given the investors falling to their animated, bloody deaths at the end of this particular cartoon, NMA doesn't seem to think so.

?Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about privacy and then asks her to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.?Because that's how she rolls.

Source: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/02/10302469-facebook-ipo-explained-in-cartoon-form

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