I've read that the brokerages are limiting purchases to preferred suckers customers and that little guys will have a tough time getting in, if for some reason they wanted to.

A smarter play might be to short them around $12 or $15. The only problem will be the margin call when the lemmings and fanboys run it up to $100 before the crash.

[Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. It's a joke. I'm just kidding around. Let me buy you a beer.]

This is probably the beginning of the end for facebook, or at least the beginning of its severe humbling. I wouldn't be surprised if Mark Zuckerberg's strategy will be to find a way to cash out as a billionaire before he's 30, and let other suckers ride the stock back down to facebook's actual value.

Maybe he has enough hubris to really believe it's worth all that, but I bet he knows otherwise, and will hand the keys over to others as it drives off the cliff.

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Sundaram says judging from this price these investors seem to believe that the company's profits will double, and then double again, and then double again — all within the next few years.

For that to happen, Facebook will need to attract 10 percent of all advertising dollars spent on the planet "across all media – print, billboards, radio, television, Internet," Sundaram says. While this is theoretically possible, Sundaram says it's "an extremely low probability."

Last year, Facebook had just over $3 billion in global ad sales. TV ad sales in the U.S. alone last year were $68 billion.