Some of the suits are likely joined with class actions already in progress.<p>Facebook's situation now is very reminiscent of Microsoft's situation in the 1999-2001ish time frame. Very few of the class action lawsuits got traction, but the ones that did went on for a long time. The antitrust cases were settled at the federal and state levels, but there were some harrowing times with testimony in Congress that made MS look really bad and surprisingly incompetent. Much to everybody's surprise the Bush FTC wound up taking action against Hotmail on EPIC's complaint.<p>The FTC is hard to calibrate these days but Facebook probably faces more international opposition than Microsoft did. At the state level, a lot depends on what happens in California (which is probably part of the reason FB and Google are giving to the Reupblican AG candidate). It'll be interesting ...