Talk:Quepasa

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Looking back on old stock trades at the end of the year, noticed several articles cited Queapsa as the "only publicly traded social network" in and around early 2010. Facebook's IPO was in May of 2012, the exact day shares of Facebook started trading publicly on a stock exchange was May 18, 2012. Therefore I am looking at a possible conclusion that Quepasa was the first publicly-traded social network in history. This is an important piece of Internet history to preserve if it proves correct. I updated the page to reflect these facts. Feel free to remove if anything is factually incorrect. However it should be remembered that Quepasa was a white-hot internet stock back in the day, often trading millions of shares of volume per day on Nasdaq for many years (10 years or more?) and articles circulating in the financial press at the time point to Quepasa having upwards of fifty million registered users on its social network. Quepasa was not an insignificant public company stock listing. QPSA used to be featured on investor news channels like CNBC all the time and was associated with celeb figures like Gloria Estefan and Jennifer Lopez. So if it does prove correct that QPSA was the first publicly-traded social network, that is indeed a curious bit of history.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.179.66 (talk) 04:04, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important historical facts 

message: found the following historical references appearing to support what is stated above about quepasa being the first publicly traded social network. in fact quepasa's status as a publicly-traded social network seems to go all the way back to at least 2007:
[1] Mashable article from 2007 discusses and confirms the existence of a quepasa social network.
http://mashable.com/2007/09/20/quepasa-news-network-magnify
[2] Article in Barron's (published by Dow Jones & Co.) dated May 17, 2007 confirms quepasa was a public company in 2007.
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/05/17/que-pasa-with-quepasa-corp/
[3] wikinvest.com shows a market value of $62.88 million for quepasa in 2007 with stock symbol QPSA.
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/QUEPASA_(QPSA)/Data/Market_Capitalization/2007
[4] this article dated April 26, 2010 calls Quepasa "the only publicly traded social network"
http://seekingalpha.com/article/200736-quepasa-the-only-publicly-traded-social-network-part-1
[5] this article dated June 3, 2010 discusses the quepasa social network and confirms Quepasa "competes in a fierce latin social networking climate against the likes of Facebook, Hi5, Tagged.com, Sonico and others."
http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/why-is-the-quepasa-social-network-growing-so-fast/15038
[6] this article claims Renren became the first publicly-traded social network on May 4, 2011. yet as can be seen above, at that time Quepasa was a publicly traded company and had already been operating a social network since at least 2007.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/2011/05/04/renren-ipo-puts-joe-chen-in-drivers-seat
[7] this article claims Linkedin became the first publicly-traded social network on may 19, 2011. but as can be seen above, at that time Quepasa was a publicly traded company and had already run a social network since at least 2007. According to the subject article of this talk page, Quepasa had 30 million social network users in 2011, Linkedin had about 100 million users when they went public in 2011. Linkedin had more users by comparison but Quepasa's 30 million are not an insignificant amount and this supports the factual claim that Quepasa's social network was first.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/228261/linkedin_shares_jump_in_first_social_networks_ipo.html
[8] MySpace never went public
https://www.quora.com/Did-MySpace-ever-go-public-with-its-stock-If-so-how-has-it-performed-with-stockholders-and-value
[9] Facebook went public and started trading on a stock exchange May 18, 2012
http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/18/technology/facebook-ipo-trading/
conclusion: unless someone has data to the contrary, it certainly appears possible Quepasa was the first publicly-traded social networking website in U.S. history. actually, in all recorded history.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.119.233.209 (talk) 07:07, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: research on first publicly traded social network possibility