A Dangerous Way to Invest in Facebook

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which chief technology officer Jeremy Phillips and senior technology analyst Eric Bleeker discuss topics across the investing world.

With Facebook finally public, ETFs and mutual funds will certainly begin buying up the stock. In fact, it's already started. The Global X Social Media Index ETF, created in November 2011 to allow investors to buy a basket of social-media-related stocks, is now roughly 8% weighted toward Facebook. In this video, Jeremy and Eric advise against buying this ETF for several reasons -- the primary one being that not all of the stocks in the ETF actually have anything to do with social media.

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