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As soon as Facebook filed the papers for its initial public offering with the Securities Exchange Commission, thousands of people began pouring over the publicly posted documents, bringing the SEC's website to its knees.
The several-hundred-page document is bound to be some heavy reading, but Facebook spiced it up with screenshots and diagrams to explain its business mission and how it plans to raise $5 billion for this IPO. Most of the graphics were informative, and explained how Facebook has made its money.
Not only do the images tell about the finances, but Facebook also uses them to illustrate how it caters to and values its users. It mentions features that are already familiar to active Facebook users, and then even has a nice thank-you image to the 845 million people who made the IPO possible.
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