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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Perrine on January 12, 2011, 12:50:39 PM
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I don't think facebook is worth $50 billion.
Heck I even think that there will be dot-com bubble 2.0 and facebook will be one of the casualties :uhoh.
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Facebook is eating the other social sites alive, it will be a matter of time before it becomes another Google.
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There was already an internet bubble that burst...it was called the late 90's. You must have missed it.
FB is no where near worth that. It was valued at $55M as a website as of last year.
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Forbes has him listed as 1.5 billion net worth, amazing how one becomes rich off of starting a social website
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amazing how one becomes rich off of starting a social website
Skuzzy should of left this forum alone moderation wise, he could of made a bundle! :devil
(it is a joke, Skuzzy, please put the ban hammer down)
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Facebook is an awesome thing....one of the easiest ways for someone to see what family and friends are doing when your far from them.
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I don't think facebook is worth $50 billion.
Heck I even think that there will be dot-com bubble 2.0 and facebook will be one of the casualties :uhoh.
As long as there's people and those people buy things and services, there'll be a need for places to advertise.
Facebook = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/dichotomy/Demotivational/Facebook2.jpg)
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Facebook schmacebook
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Facebook = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Word on the street is that Facebook won't - after all, it doesn't really have concrete advertising revenue like Google, and
you can buy FB shares, but don't hold it for too long; dump it at the first sign of trouble.
another word on the street is that FB is employing Goldman Sachs to get around a 1000-member rule which states that corporations with 1000 shareholders must release all financial info. GS just bought a chunk of shares from fB and resold them, all you see is a major investor in GS.
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It is a limit of 500 shareholders, Perrine. Yes, there is considerable speculation that they are repackaging the deals through GS in order to skirt the issue.
In terms of value, $50 billion is much too high, but I would put it higher than the $1.5 billion stated in Forbes last year. Myspace is laying off half of their workforce, and other serious (western) competitors are not posing much of a threat at this point. It's certainly a story to follow, especially if Zuckerberg decides he's had enough and considers an IPO.
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Social Network is a good movie, too. :)
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Facebook lol
Guy at a work opened a account under the name "Leroy Brown"
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Facebook lol
Guy at a work opened a account under the name "Leroy Brown"
Was he "bad" and live on the south side of Chicago?
Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkoqBSt3mg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkoqBSt3mg)
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Facebook lol
Guy at a work opened a account under the name "Leroy Brown"
someone in my old high school opened an account under The Great Bambino :rofl
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I read a news artical the other day that stated in 2010 Facebook had more traffic than Google.......My wife loves it, she keeps in touch with friends all over the country. Personally i think she just likes being like Mrs Kravitz from Bewitched :D
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This Leroy Brown is in Strangeways prison Manchester and other lags have added him as a friend lol
Then again this forum is my social network site, i can be anyone i like on here :banana:
My real name is Steven and i live in Uganda and i am third in line to the Umbongo throne :banana:
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i personally like myspace better, it had alot cooler customizable options. but after "the social network" came out, all my friends ran off to facebook, which pretty much forced me to go there too. i miss myspace tho :(
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The most important and serious question has anyone got any action with chicks using facebook? :old:
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i personally like myspace better, it had alot cooler customizable options. but after "the social network" came out, all my friends ran off to facebook, which pretty much forced me to go there too. i miss myspace tho :(
Ah, so you ARE 12!
The most important and serious question has anyone got any action with chicks using facebook? :old:
Getting there :cheers:
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Ah, so you ARE 12!
Getting there :cheers:
that was just stupid, how does liking myspace make me twelve?
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Every. Possible. Way.
But I'll let you PM me if you really want to know.
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Every. Possible. Way.
But I'll let you PM me if you really want to know.
why PM you? just say it here, ever since i joined the forums youve been trying to troll every post i make, now your calling me twelve for liking myspace? out with it fool, ether say what youd say in PM in the open, or shut up allready.
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Facebook has been a great way to stay in touch with family I haven't seen in years.
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I tried Facebook for about 6 months and found it was only usefull if you wanted to know who got high scores on the range of games they have. I originally thought it would be a good way of keeping in touch with family and friends around the world but sadly not much of that happened, the only things I found out were that my brother needs some wood to make a barn in farmville.
I no longer visit the site and deleted all of the lists I had there.
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In terms of value, $50 billion is much too high, but I would put it higher than the $1.5 billion stated in Forbes last year.
The 1.5 billion in Forbes last year wasn't what Facebbok was worth, it was what Mark Zuckerberg was worth, and he only owns I believe it's 5 or 6% of the Facebook shares.
He's the youngest billionaire in the world at I believe 26.
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I tried Facebook for about 6 months and found it was only usefull if you wanted to know who got high scores on the range of games they have. I originally thought it would be a good way of keeping in touch with family and friends around the world but sadly not much of that happened, the only things I found out were that my brother needs some wood to make a barn in farmville.
I no longer visit the site and deleted all of the lists I had there.
I absolutely hate those score updates for the games people play on there, but if you just hit the X at the right of those post you can set it so you never see those again, that cleared a lot of waste up.
I've found Facebook really useful, I get to see whats going on with family members lives that I might not have the chance to talked to all the time, so I always know whats going on with them now, plus I found a lot of old high school friends & old girlfriends I thought I'd never hear from again, so for me Facebook is a great tool.
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I tried Facebook for about 6 months and found it was only usefull if you wanted to know who got high scores on the range of games they have. I originally thought it would be a good way of keeping in touch with family and friends around the world but sadly not much of that happened, the only things I found out were that my brother needs some wood to make a barn in farmville.
I no longer visit the site and deleted all of the lists I had there.
only facebook game that caught my attenchian was a sort-of world war 2 rpg. it got addicting. last time i played it i had a won a panther tank, and all my troops were equiped with lee enfields.
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why PM you? just say it here, ever since i joined the forums youve been trying to troll every post i make, now your calling me twelve for liking myspace? out with it fool, ether say what youd say in PM in the open, or shut up allready.
Why? Because what I'd say would probably offend Trigger. That, and I like topics
to stay on topic. I love how you call me a fool, it gives my ribs a good stretch laughing
at you like that.
Regarding facebook, I stinking hate their chat and I'm rather angry that they forced
me to have the new profile with no option of going back. Other than that, I like being
able to keep in touch with old friends, while making a new one every now and again.
Awesome way to keep up with events around my area too. Going to an Alaska SCCA
Rallycross event this Saturday, thanks to Facebook :cheers:
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Remember that AOL was once valued at $166 billion (before the TW merger). It is now at $2.5 billion (and falling). Like Facebook, many thought that AOL was once the center of the universe. Something else always comes along. Or, in the case of AOL, your product becomes obsolete.
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The most important and serious question has anyone got any action with chicks using facebook? :old:
oh ya I got tons of e girlfriends on there and plenty of e action... :rolleyes:
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Remember that AOL was once valued at $166 billion (before the TW merger). It is now at $2.5 billion (and falling). Like Facebook, many thought that AOL was once the center of the universe. Something else always comes along. Or, in the case of AOL, your product becomes obsolete.
I think Facebook is currently at it's peak. It may not be long before the decline starts.
But then again, we'll all die next year so it doesn't matter either way :devil
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Had a Facebook for about three months.
I used it to get in touch with some old friends. I got their phone numbers and addresses and promptly closed out the facebook. Haven't been back.
I also hated all the friend requests from people that I either didn't really like or hardly knew. I felt like a heal, because I would never friend anyone. I just wanted them to go away.
Facebook sucks.
Edit: I misspelled "heel". :rofl
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Why? Because what I'd say would probably offend Trigger. That, and I like topics
to stay on topic. I love how you call me a fool, it gives my ribs a good stretch laughing
at you like that.
Regarding facebook, I stinking hate their chat and I'm rather angry that they forced
me to have the new profile with no option of going back. Other than that, I like being
able to keep in touch with old friends, while making a new one every now and again.
Awesome way to keep up with events around my area too. Going to an Alaska SCCA
Rallycross event this Saturday, thanks to Facebook :cheers:
lol. sure. keep on trolling.
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lol. sure. keep on trolling.
I'll stop trolling when you stop biting.
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Had a Facebook for about three months.
I used it to get in touch with some old friends. I got their phone numbers and addresses and promptly closed out the facebook. Haven't been back.
I also hated all the friend requests from people that I either didn't really like or hardly knew. I felt like a heal, because I would never friend anyone. I just wanted them to go away.
Facebook sucks.
same here..
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Facebook sucks but its the best social network out there. The interface feels so...rigid.
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Facebook is an awesome thing....one of the easiest ways for anyone to see what family and friends are doing...
Fixed.
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There was already an internet bubble that burst...it was called the late 90's. You must have missed it.
FB is no where near worth that. It was valued at $55M as a website as of last year.
Nah, you just can't read. He said 2.0. Kind of implies a second one eh? :neener:
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Facebook is just another information mine and advertising portal. I don't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
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I'm sure many, if not all of you have seen this. Some interesting information about Facebook and the venture capitalists that helped get it running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpLNlSKugHw
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I'm sure many, if not all of you have seen this. Some interesting information about Facebook and the venture capitalists that helped get it running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpLNlSKugHw
Never seen that before, but that shows you just where that 55 billion net worth comes from, companies paying big bucks to get there hands on all that data it collects on users.
As for the CIA using it to collect data on people I really don't care, if they want to know what movies I like or what music I listen to there welcome to it.
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people are so easy to give up all there personal info to perfect stangers, OH but its a cool free site to find friends and stay in touch, nothings free in this world, you use there site they sell your info forever, :rofl lemmings
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people are so easy to give up all there personal info to perfect stangers, OH but its a cool free site to find friends and stay in touch, nothings free in this world, you use there site they sell your info forever, :rofl lemmings
It's not like they have your SSN, or credit card #'s or anything, at most they have your email address, which just about any website you sign up with has, so what kinda info do you think they have that is in need of protection?
Also you can set your Facebook page so only people who you've selected to be your friends can see any info you have, thats how I have my page set, you have to be my friend to see anything other then my name.
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It's not like they have your SSN, or credit card #'s or anything, at most they have your email address, which just about any website you sign up with has, so what kinda info do you think they have that is in need of protection?
Also you can set your Facebook page so only people who you've selected to be your friends can see any info you have, thats how I have my page set, you have to be my friend to see anything other then my name.
biggest gripe when people say they give away personal information is that you can put your phone number,where you live, your highschool, job, etc. but what most the gripers forget is that all of that is OPTIONAL. facebook doesnt force you to fill in every blank, you do so at your own "risk". and also stated above you can set your stuff to private/block people. first person i blocked was my mother. :uhoh
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biggest gripe when people say they give away personal information is that you can put your phone number,where you live, your highschool, job, etc. but what most the gripers forget is that all of that is OPTIONAL. facebook doesnt force you to fill in every blank, you do so at your own "risk". and also stated above you can set your stuff to private/block people. first person i blocked was my mother. :uhoh
Exactly, all that info you mention is all optional, you don't have to add any info to your profile that you don't want to, so if your that worried about that kind of info getting out, just don't add it, and/or set the info to private.
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It's not like they have your SSN, or credit card #'s or anything, at most they have your email address, which just about any website you sign up with has, so what kinda info do you think they have that is in need of protection?
Also you can set your Facebook page so only people who you've selected to be your friends can see any info you have, thats how I have my page set, you have to be my friend to see anything other then my name.
Thank heavens they don't have that info I'm sure they would sell it for a buck if they did, you may be able to set your privacy to friends i understand that and that's not what I'm talking about, Facebook has total control over your profile all the info on it and can use it at there own discretion, be it selling it or giving it away to other companies for other compensations, when facebook first came out i thought how cool i tried it for about a month, then i canceled and deleted all my info on my Profile, i typed my email address into facebook last week for giggles and low and behold all my info came up saying welcome back updating all your info ( after deleting my info 1 1/2 years ago) :huh ummm i thought i deleted all of my info, they keep it to sell to companies
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that's why I keep a couple of 'throwaway' email accounts. I think this is the only site I actually use my real contact info on.
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Thank heavens they don't have that info I'm sure they would sell it for a buck if they did, you may be able to set your privacy to friends i understand that and that's not what I'm talking about, Facebook has total control over your profile all the info on it and can use it at there own discretion, be it selling it or giving it away to other companies for other compensations, when facebook first came out i thought how cool i tried it for about a month, then i canceled and deleted all my info on my Profile, i typed my email address into facebook last week for giggles and low and behold all my info came up saying welcome back updating all your info ( after deleting my info 1 1/2 years ago) :huh ummm i thought i deleted all of my info, they keep it to sell to companies
Yeah you can't completely delete an account on Facebook, which is something I agree you should be able to do, although even if you could and it looked like the info was completely gone to you, I'm sure it would still be somewhere on a computer, which I'm sure is probably something that all web companies like this do.
Now as far as the info itself there really isn't any info, other then your email, that is required for you to list, everything else you put on there you do of your own free will, so if the info is something you don't want shared, don't put it on there.
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Facebook absolutely has gotten me laid and therefore is ok in my book. :aok
Was working security at a hospital and I only knew a nurses first name...never had time to talk to her in person so I dug her up on facebook all stalker like.
Long story short turns out she had been noticing me too.
Like everyone else said....don't put anything up you wouldn't want Ur mom to see. :devil
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Like everyone else said....don't put anything up you wouldn't want Ur mom to see. :devil
My daughter makes this mistake all the time and wonders why she never gets away with anything.
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I guess someone gets some use out of facebook. I never saw a use for it.
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I guess someone gets some use out of facebook. I never saw a use for it.
How else are you supposed to know if your Wife's friends sister is having highlights put in her hair this afternoon?
This knowledge is vital to your existence. Better get with it.
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Thank heavens they don't have that info I'm sure they would sell it for a buck if they did, you may be able to set your privacy to friends i understand that and that's not what I'm talking about, Facebook has total control over your profile all the info on it and can use it at there own discretion, be it selling it or giving it away to other companies for other compensations, when facebook first came out i thought how cool i tried it for about a month, then i canceled and deleted all my info on my Profile, i typed my email address into facebook last week for giggles and low and behold all my info came up saying welcome back updating all your info ( after deleting my info 1 1/2 years ago) :huh ummm i thought i deleted all of my info, they keep it to sell to companies
They don't need to sell it to companies, all of the ads on Facebook are targeted; I guarantee they make a pretty penny off of that.
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They don't need to sell it to companies, all of the ads on Facebook are targeted; I guarantee they make a pretty penny off of that.
Oh definitely, with 500 million profiles I'm sure that there isn't a company in the world that doesn't want to buy ad space on their site, and your exactly right about the ad's being targeted to your profile specifically based on what info is in it, I notice that all the time.
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Oh definitely, with 500 million profiles I'm sure that there isn't a company in the world that doesn't want to buy ad space on their site, and your exactly right about the ad's being targeted to your profile specifically based on what info is in it, I notice that all the time.
Funny thing is, Facebook's convinced I'm a zionist orthodox Jew for some reason :noid
I always get ads for study trips to Israel to connect with my heritage, and all kinds of other weird things like that. I'm not aware of anyone in my family who was Jewish :lol
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Oh definitely, with 500 million profiles I'm sure that there isn't a company in the world that doesn't want to buy ad space on their site, and your exactly right about the ad's being targeted to your profile specifically based on what info is in it, I notice that all the time.
Funny thing is, Facebook's convinced I'm a zionist orthodox Jew for some reason :noid
I always get ads for study trips to Israel to connect with my heritage, and all kinds of other weird things like that. I'm not aware of anyone in my family who was Jewish :lol
You can cockblock their ads and trackers by installing firefox add ons such as ghostery and adblock plus :rock
http://www.squirrelconspiracy.net/abp/facebook-privacy-list.html
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You can cockblock their ads and trackers by installing firefox add ons such as ghostery and adblock plus :rock
http://www.squirrelconspiracy.net/abp/facebook-privacy-list.html
Cool, thanks.
Edit: Yup, all those annoying ads are gone now from the side of my Facebook page.
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(http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4bbdfaa57f8b9af56acd0000/chart-of-the-day-unique-visitors-on-global-social-networking-sites.jpg)
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Man look at that growth rate, from 100 million to 500 million in just 24 months, and without a doubt I'm sure it's up to at least 700 million, if not 800 by now since that chart ended a year ago.
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Facebook is eating the other social sites alive, it will be a matter of time before it becomes another Google.
It has actually passed google for the move visited site
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The sale of Facebook will be used by the US gvt to pay-off the debt to the PRC <less the 300$B their local gvts will default on> as Facebook will be nationalized owing to "its critical nature to the fundamental operation of the USA as a wholly sovereign nation."
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The most important and serious question has anyone got any action with chicks using facebook? :old:
Yeeeeesss!
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The most important and serious question has anyone got any action with chicks using facebook? :old:
Only ones I'd already had :aok :( :confused:
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Facebook is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it at any given time.
No more, no less.
Wab
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Anybody who says "fb" isn't worth is clearly not, nor never should open, a business/businessperson.
BTW..... I HATE fb
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Facebook is an awesome thing....one of the easiest ways for someone to see what family and friends are doing when your far from them.
They said all of those great things about Myspace several years ago. Myspace was worth billions. Now the stock is worthless when compared to what it was in the early 2000's. It fell to the wayside when Facebook came along just as Facebook will go down when the next cool internet fad comes along..
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The most important and serious question has anyone got any action with chicks using facebook? :old:
I did using Myspace several times...
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I know people all the time compare Facebook to Myspace, saying that Myspace was big at one time & look at it now, but I think it's different with Facebook, with Facebook it's more interactive, you can communicate and see what your friends & family are doing a lot easier, on Myspace the only way to tell what one of your friends was up to was to actually go to his/her Myspace page, with Facebook you just go to your own page and you can see what their doing, so it's a lot easier and that's what lead to everyone jumping ship from Myspace to Facebook. Facebook isn't gonna be going the way of Myspace, at least not for a long time.