FlareTag for Facebook Applications

Marguerite Reardon’s article title “How can I get a piece of the Facebook action?” answers a question presented to her from one of her readers.  Like Marguerite I will state that I’m not a “financial analyst,” with extensive knowledge about IPO history, laws, and SEC regulations.  My personal experience during the dot-com boom allowed myself and friends the opportunity to invest (and lose) on IPO offerings during a period in the late 1990s.  IPOs for  .com technology companies seemed to be  flooding the market with multiple companies going public every week.  It was gambling, and in the end I heard many stories about people losing on their IPO wagers.

As Marguerite mentions, companies such as google have performed and grown well beyond their initial price offering.  It would seem reasonable to expect that many months from now, when Facebook does IPO it is positioned to experience a burst in demand that will surpass the expectations of the mightiest bulls.  My instinct is that there will be a significant increase in new users that are hungry to experience the social web.  With an ever increasing demand for all things social, mobile, and internet related Facebook is positioned to accelerate and continue redefining social interaction across the globe.

For many years, I personally avoided the social web- Facebook, twitter, etc., because of my privacy concerns.  Unfortunately, our anonymity is an endangered species or an extinct thing of the past and unless you are ready to live the life of Grizzly Adams it maybe the time to embrace and leverage this “Facebook” experience with a renewed gusto.  My personal opinion is that while we practice and work to remain https:// secure and anonymous our government, financial institutions, and economy at large has  built our future in “clouds.”  The network known as the internet has proven itself to be insecure and a detriment to our privacy and a contention point for future economic disaster and instability.  The addendum’s to Facebook’s IPO describe the potential risks, but similar to the fine print people rarely read or consider it until it negatively effects them.

If you believe that Facebook and the social, mobile internet will continue to grow and explode in popularity and want to find a way to profit from the Facebook IPO I suggest you embrace the technology.  My personal strategy was to partner with FlareTag.com to help develop and promote Facebook applications for Real Estate.  The ripple effect of Facebook’s popularity and influence among your customer’s should not be underestimated.  That is not to say that twitter, LinkedIn, google+, and an ever-growing number of social network sites are less important than Facebook- simply put you can not ignore the global social influence of the internet to deliver you opportunities to establish, improve, and maintain your brand.

At FlareTag we are developing Facebook applications for the social and mobile internet gold rush.   Get in touch with me. I value a private a conversation about your real estate business knowledge and needs. I’m willing to listen, learn, and share ideas that will help you benefit from the Facebook IPO in 2012.