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Lessons From Facebook

By Don Dion

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Facebook may not be a public company yet, but this social networking site has an important message for investors about the way we live now -- online. With the once-exclusive Facebook eclipsing Google as the most visited site last week and the Federal Communications Commission promising "equal opportunity in this new Digital Age," living your life online has become not just a trend -- but a right. It's not hard to see why the U.S. Postal Service is floundering and Facebook is soaring. Hand-stamped letters take days, and being out-of-the-loop is increasingly impossible -- or, at the very least, undesirable. One of the holdings in the First Trust Dow Jones Internet ETF is the aptly named Constant Contact , because that's what people want. I've emphasized FDN in the past and continue to find reasons to be bullish on it. FDN offers a convenient...

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