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After a brief hiatus, Facebook shares continue their downward slide.

Following the US Monday Memorial Day public holiday, Facebook shares opened around $0.50 lower than their Friday close and have not ceased their downward drift.  Last week, the shares held their ground during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but in reality, no-one expected this to last.

At the time of writing, after 90 minutes of trading on the NASDAQ exchange, shares were marginally above $30 - 5.6% down on Friday's close and 21% down on the IPO price when they listed a week ago last Friday.  The intra-day low was $30.06 and the most recent trade at $30.11.

The damage inflicted by the botched float continues to weigh on the share price and has already sparked numerous law suits and accusations that the media (well, one particular commentator in particular) are to blame - there's nothing like blaming the messenger in a crisis!

This writer continues to predict that a fair price is well south of $20 - there's a lot more falling to do before that price is achieved, and no options for short-selling - who would want to be the party going long on those particular transactions!

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David Heath has over 25 years experience in the IT industry, specializing particularly in customer support, security and computer networking. Heath has worked previously as head of IT for The Television Shopping Network, as the network and desktop manager for Armstrong Jones (a major funds management organization) and has consulted into various Australian federal government agencies (including the Department of Immigration and the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence). He has also served on various state, national and international committees for Novell Users International; he was also the organising chairman for the 1994 Novell Users' Conference in Brisbane. Heath is currently employed as an Instructional Designer, building technical training courses for industrial process control systems.

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