Facebook At a Loss...Authors Be Wary of Trends

I've been following this saga with Facebook with great interest because I've always been an extremely conservative investor (real estate, and only in resort areas...never flipping), and because I'm curious about whether or not online businesses like Facebook actually generate money through advertising.

From cnet.com:

More specifically, since the close of trading on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg has lost almost $3 billion, at least on paper. (His total stake is still worth about $11.8 billion, a f...