Facebook is gonna have a lot more friends come Friday.
Demand for shares ahead of Friday's IPO is so great that the company upped its price range.
A share will cost you between 34 and 38 dollars each. Is it worth it though as an investment?
It values the company at just a staggering amount. Maggie Lake runs down the reasons you may want to hold off on Facebook.
As the countdown continues to the Facebook IPO, here are 10 reasons you might want to think twice. Number 10: Your family on Facebook.
With the extended family on, people might start logging off. As Saturday Night Live warned years ago...
Well, it finally happened. Your mom is on Facebook.
Number nine: He wore what?
Should the CEO of a multibillion-dollar public company wear a hoodie all the time? At his company's IPO road show?
Who wears hoodies? When Mark Zuckerberg is asking people to invest in his company -- he's asking them for their money -- he should show them some respect.
Number eight: See you in court. Archenemies the "Winklevii" aren't giving up.
Our dispute is with Mark Zuckerberg, the person.
It's not with the product. (It's not with the product.)
And Facebook itself warns about new lawsuits in its prospectus.
Number seven: He bought what?
Zuckerberg bought Instagram, a photo-sharing company with zero revenue, for a billion dollars without consulting anyone.
Number six: Show me the mobile money. No ads around here, and that's a problem.
More and more people are logging onto Facebook using their phones, but their mobile advertising massively lags the desktop version.
Number five: They know what about me?
Do you like the fact that if you don't touch your profile, anyone can search your name on Google and see everything you're up to?
I definitely don't like that.
To grow profits, Facebook has to make money off our information and that could turn users off.
Number four: So 20th century. New platforms could come along, making Facebook obsolete.
Sorry for being such a square.
Number three: Can you say "hello" in Mandarin?
We say, ni hao.
Zuckerberg tried to learn the language in a year; cracking the crucial Chinese market may take a lot longer.
Number two: He said what? Facebook's own IPO filing says,
"Simply put, we don't build services to make money. We make money to build better services."
Are Zuckerberg's interests really aligned with shareholders'?
And the number one reason not to buy Facebook: Does anyone really need hundreds of friends?
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