From privacy issues to addicting games, Facebook is mentioned just about every hour of every day around the world. Facebook is not that old of a site, created in 2004, but is growing so fast it seems that even developers can’t keep up. But the big question out on the table, especially from the investment type user, is “when Facebook going public?”.
Short answer, Zuckerberg says that it won’t be anytime soon and that he doesn’t “think about going public….much”. There already are decent investors on Facebook’s side and they include Microsoft, Digital Sky Technologies, Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, just to name a few. If the public were to be able to purchase stock in Facebook you can just imagine it would be something similar to what happened when Google went public.
This was all brought up in a 50 minute interview at the All Things Digital conference this week. Many concerns were answered and some rumors were smashed. Recently, some tech blogs spread some news about Facebook developing a web-based email service, but Zuckerberg said they are working on many new things, but none of them will be competing with other webmail companies like Yahoo or Google’s Gmail.
It is a sweet balance between trying to get users to be more social, yet at the same time protecting their privacy. Zuckerberg has said “I don’t know if we always get it right, but my prediction will be that a few years from now, we’ll look back and wonder why there was ever this time when all these websites and applications … weren’t personalized in some way.”
