Comments on: Zuckerberg: Facebook is all about growth

Just how do you best monetize the strikingly popular social network? The CEO reckons they'll have that problem licked in about three years.

[WeCanDoBIZ]

I am not sure I need to click anywhere to find out about the possibilities of an IPO. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg is the only person I know without a TV, as he seems to have missed the news reports on events of the past two weeks. His source of money is drying up. Facebook's attraction may, indeed, be that it is free but where does he see money coming from in the future? To suggest you don't care because you just want users -- who, incidentally, proved themselves fickle in their switch from MySpace -- its bordering on negligent.

The more I read this kind of thing the more I think we have some kind of egotist who thinks he can rewrite the rules of economics; or a kind of happy clappy individual who doesn't really have a business at all, but has still managed to find a bunch of followers with deep pockets and questionable judgement.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

[rickdev]

I agree with WeCanDoBiz, I don't think Mr. Zuckerberg has paid too much attention to the Google / YouTube deal either. Users does not always mean money. Google has been trying to figure out this problem since they purchased it. Good for him though on not completly worrying about the bottom line, but those who have put in investments into his company, may be worrying about it though.

[brian.lee]

"Do what you love, and the money will follow. "

Ever heard of the phrase "starving artist"? It's easy when you're at the end of the rainbow and there's a pot of gold, but what about all those sleepless nights oh wait you were spending someone elses money.

In the case of the starving artist ya money will follow when you're dead.

[Harrison912]

I typically use FaceBook to connect with the public and raise awareness for my safety and security products and web site. Traffic is king on the internet and it speaks loud and clear to advertisers. The advertising money and opportunities on a site like FaceBook will never dry up. New avenues will alway be explored as long as the platform is strong which is what Zuckerbert is concentrating on. I think he's a pretty smart guy!

[Kaiser.a]

If other languages look anything like it does in French, they have no chance internationally.

[interactivegm]

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. it seems that Facebook has messed up a lot by inflating their members with plenty of applications that are not worth it. And if they want to monetize better they really have to do something about it.

Traffic/Growth its key factor on a social networks but it has to be planned correctly and taken in consideration the local cultures mentalities of people all over the globe.

From the users end their is a lot of confusion and plenty of SPAM.

[JimMcDish]

Facebook? You mean people actually use that? MySpace kicks Facebook to the curb.

www.privacy-center.ru.tc

[articlesbook]

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 15, 2004. It quickly became a success at Harvard and more than two-thirds of the school's students signed up in the first two weeks. Zuckerberg then decided to spread Facebook to other schools and enlisted the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first spread it to Stanford, Columbia and Yale and then to other Ivy League colleges and schools in the Boston area. By the beginning of the summer, Zuckerberg and Moskovitz had released Facebook at almost forty five schools.

http://www.articlesbook.com

[lostinspaaaace]

This article is very entertaining. It is funny how the head of a company again fails to understand the end user.
I would say that 80% of my friends on my facebook account are rarely on anymore.
It was a great idea and people like it but the bottom line is that it is a web application that people are tired of.
I do not understand how this guy can talk about growth when the last time there was growth people got frustrated and stop logging on to Facebook.
There is an old saying "If it is not broken do not fix it.."
Zuckerberg is being greedy but what do you expect from someone who just is about the money.

I think Facebook will eventually become cliche in the future like everything we end up liking..