By most accounts, Facebook’s IPO should raise $10 billion. What will FBOK do with its part of all that cash? The same thing Google (GOOG) has been doing. Buying up other companies to build up its ecosystem to ensure its longevity as well as assure investors that it is not a one trick pony. Google, several years ago, acquired several companies such as YouTube and DoubleClick and about a hundred…

Now that it looks like Facebook is (finally!) going to file for an IPO, plenty of potential investors want to know how they can get in on the action. We’ll cut to the chase — unless you’re a close personal friend or relative of a Facebook executive, or you manage an enormous amount of capital, you have almost no chance of getting IPO pricing on a stock like Facebook. Why?…