Facebook the website is all about grabbing someone's attention. So it's safe to assume that Facebook the company has taken great care in choosing a ticker symbol that will do the same.

As the social network prepares to go public and raise billions, it must also pick a brief code - the handful of letters that will be as closely identified with Facebook on Wall Street as the blue strip is on your computer screen.

FACE is already taken by a cosmetics company, though BOOK is up for grabs.

So what will it be? Here are some suggestions:

TMI: Too much information. For the company that made it OK to share details about your broken relationships and drunken miscues.

LIKE: You want your friends to Like your posts. Facebook wants you to Like its stock. FRND would also be an acceptable substitute.

MEEE: Because if Facebook isn't the modern world's biggest exercise in self-glorification, what is?

ZUCK: For Mark Zuckerberg, the face of Facebook and the man all of Wall Street wants to friend. Or "LOL", for what he's going to do all the way to the bank.

POKE: In honour of Facebook's creepiest feature.

FBML: For "future blackmail". As in, those drinking pictures are funny now, but could keep you from becoming president in 30 years.