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The Facebook IPO was a euphoric moment for tech. For the first time, a social Web company had resisted acquisition, dominated the world and gone public without compromising itself. But now that the frenzy has subsided, where does the tech industry stand?

What does the Facebook news say about our economy in general? 

Large companies often have trouble breaking into new revenue-generating vertical markets. As Facebook barrels into its much-anticipated initial public offering today, the question for investors and analysts will be: How does Facebook start making money from its huge mobile presence? While it may seem like Facebook has completely dropped the ball on mobile monetization, there is plenty of time and avenues for the social behemoth to make money from its mobile eyeballs.

Facebook goes public Friday. It could be worth well over $100 billion dollars. Want to get a piece of that? It's going to be very tricky for mere mortals to get Facebook stock in the IPO. If you want shares, here's what you have to do.

Twitter fired another salvo in the privacy wars, announcing that it will allow users to block it from recording their wanderings around the Web. Take that, Facebook!

Facebook's Friday-morning IPO will be priced between $34 and $38 per share, according to AllThingsD's sources. That puts the overall valuation up to $104 billion. Last week, Bloomberg reported that the Facebook investor roadshow was generating "lackluster interest," but that doesn't seem to be the case as the IPO gets closer.

In Boston, the startup community, venture capitalists and state government all rue the day they let Facebook leave the city and move to San Francisco. Who could have known at the time that the social platform would one day have 850 million monthly active users and be headed towards one of the largest public offerings in history? Yet, as the anticipated IPO draws nearer, one of the biggest problems facing Facebook is how to monetize its robust mobile ecosystem. Mobile marketing and advertising has become a strength of the Boston startup ecosystem and Facebook may regret not being in the city to take advantage of all the talent the environment has to offer.

San Francisco has many unique qualities for a fledgling startup. Venture capitalists wallets tend to be easier to pry open, there is a robust developer ecosystem and many great opportunities for meetings and partnerships. If Facebook had stayed in Boston there is no guarantee that it would have become what it is today. Yet, the benefits that the Boston ecosystem can offer today may be better suited to where the company is headed.

As we move closer to the Facebook IPO, we're hearing that people are less averse to removing weak Facebook connections and we're also seeing Facebook try new things like Movies on Facebook.

While the Facebook growth story is fantastic, our writers worry about the value proposition due to the risks of 85% of Facebook revenue being related to advertising. Regardless, the Facebook IPO could be the biggest tech IPO in history, so we wondered if our readers were busy preparing to invest.

Would you invest in Facebook?

We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and presented them back to you with Storify. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

You would think that a company with 423 million monthly active mobile users would find a way to squeeze some revenue out of them. Easier said than done. The biggest question to come out of Facebook's S-1 filing for its IPO was how the company could monetize its robust mobile app ecosystem. How will Facebook do it? Stitching in mobile banner ads is not likely a solution for Facebook. We explore Facebook's opportunities and ask for your opinion in this week's ReadWriteMobile poll.

Facebook's IPO filing, released this week, is fascinating for many reasons: We've already covered several angles.

Perhaps the most exciting, though, is the wealth of data about the company that is finally public - from its user statistics to its growth around the world to its finances. I've highlighted and visualized some of the most interesting data in this series of charts.

Facebook is worth $75-$100 billion. If we broke that down by user, it would mean that each individual is worth $118.34. Or, if we're looking at it in terms of revenue from 2011 - $3.71 billion - each user is worth $4.39 in revenue per user per year. Yet Zuckerberg owns 28.4% of Facebook, and holds 56.9% of the voting power.

The world over is reacting to the fact that Facebook has now put a dollar value on 845 million users' personal data. Zuckerberg had something to say about it, too. About three hours after the IPO dropped, he posted a revealing photo to his Facebook page.