Comments on: Zuckerberg: Sometimes Facebook goes through 'painful changes'

Openness is the site's ultimate goal, young CEO says at the Web 2.0 Summit, but he doesn't think it's an ideal starting point.

[Mr. Dee]

App Spam was definitely the worst. The new UI definitely fixes that. I like that its closed, I don't anything from my Facebook profile to be public without my consent and I don't want it to be forced on me either. Facebook needs to form some partnership with tradition software Company's where they bring mini versions of some of their core apps to Facebook platform or link to it from the social network itself.

[orimta]

I am not close to Facebook, but it looks like they're running out of money and that Microsoft will not put a 2nd investment there - bad sign for potential investors.

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[hates-fish]

I'm sure Google would be happy to acquire them... for a 'reasonable' price (say, a couple times what they payed for youtube).

[NYJester]

the applications just keep getting better and better!

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[Harrison912]

I typically use FaceBook as well as other social sites to raise awareness for my safety and security web site and it's products. Since FaceBook is my primary social site, I'm glad to hear things are moving in a positive direction and that FaceBook is financially sound.

[knowles2]

I doubt google will be interested in buy Facebook.
The one of three reasons I give is that they already have massive trouble trying to turn a profit on their Youtube deal, the reason that is because the user base is highly hostile to change an Facebook users are the same, highly hostile to change. And for to google to make money on such a deal would require them to make major changes to the site.

A second reason is that I doubt Microsoft would let them buy Facebook, through I would not be surprise if Google were to try and force their hand and let Microsoft burn of more money into Facebook.

A third reason is that I do not want them to. The reason is that I feel as a company that Google needs consolidate what it already doing and at the moment I feel that they are already overstretching themselves. Instead I want them to focus on their current projects and may actually get a few of their long term betas, like Gmail actually out of beta. Also may be they could actually developed google sketch a bit to.

A other reason is I want to see how big Facebook can actually get with a joining a other bigger company. Also i want to actually used other sites that are not own by Google. At the moment virtually every site I used is owned by Google, apart from Cnet, BBC, and Facebook, and a few others.