[citation][nom]mikies[/nom]The amazing thing is that Facebook is not going public any time soon, which tells us all that the management knows it is a fad. They are worried about people shorting the stock because the savvy investors know that Facebook is just a fad and so does the management. The gap between Facebook going public and today is the confirmation of the theory.[/citation]
I completely disagree. Right now Zuckerburg & Co don't really have that much money, their entire wealth is basically in the value of Facebook. If Facebook were to die in the next year, they would get next to nothing. If they were to go public they'd make many billions of dollars regardless of the long term prospects of their company. Like someone else said, FB was valuated at $50 billion by one source.