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Only if they still exist in a few years. They wouldn't be the first company with a great IPO that didn't survive for long.

The space is hugely fad-driven anyway.

Kids don't use Facebook. They use Snap, for now. Who knows in a few years.

Twitter and Facebook are what their parents use.

Facebook has close to 2 billion monthly active users (MAU). Instagram and WhatsApp – both owned by Facebook – each has around half a billion MAU.

Your comment reads as "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".

The people who sold their stock options have already come out ahead.

Whether or not the people who bought those shares go under water isn't their problem.

AKA, the early investors are going to make way way more money than if they had sold to facebook.

Everyone who has options is likely still locked up.

Snap amended their employee ESOP deal so that the employees can sell their shares at the same time as investors -- 150 days post-IPO.