You are worth as much as the problem you solve for the buying party. Facebook is (rightly or wrongly) perceived by the market as: 1) Losing its cool 2) Suffe

You are worth as much as the problem you solve for the buying party. Facebook is (rightly or wrongly) perceived by the market as: 1) Losing its cool 2) Suffering from user flight 3) Still not offering significant competition to short-message social networking For a $116B company, offering 2.8% of its total value to fight off what might be a a future 20%+ loss in value is a no brainer.