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May 25, 2012

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I was interested to follow the link to your Facebook page. The thing that struck me most of all was how tidy and clean it looked with not an advertisement in sight. I don’t use facebook, but I read somewhere that the raison d’etre for the recent IPO was the projected revenue from advertising. If […]

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