Facebook That Let Small Investors Sad

Facebook’s IPO seems an almost thorough trickery, which is likely to be cunningly manipulated based irresistible greed and hasty realization of wealth.

They hid the negative research report and shared it with only their few favored clients. And they offered too high price and issued too many shares, which is general experts’ opinions.

In terms of the Internet history, Facebook can be classed a kind of an emotion model. Google is a benefit-ads model; Yahoo and Naver are an information platform one; Apple is a content platform and appliances model. MS is a SW appliances, and information platform one; Samsung and Nokia are an appliances one. Amazon is a physical goods and contents delivery one.

Facebook and twitter are the last evolved model, which features human’s connections (social networking) grounding emotions, memories, and feelings. For this, Facebook and SNS are considerably different from the other previous internet models. Maybe Yahoo would be most similar to or parent of SNS.

Facebook has an emotion element so that it has spread the world in a very short time. But there couldn’t find out a definite profit model after almost connecting the world. It sounds natural to me.

In Facebook we can obtain no information. We can obtain friends’ advice and recommends immediately by mobile. I am always afraid whether my private information exposes or not, though I want to search for old friends.

Facebook is not a hub (platform), but only a dot. If we try to contact someone we want by dot to dot, it takes longer time to search for the person or it couldn’t work.

Facebook might follow in the footsteps of Korea’s ILoveSchool and Cyworld to which Koreans at first paid huge attention but now disappeared or diminished to one fifth PV(page view) of this year compared to the previous year.

The ‘connection’ itself cannot become a profit model, should be added something useful or noticeable to users.

In my opinion, Facebook, Twitter, Cyworld, big Communications companies all are trapped in crisis. Especially, the big communications companies of their own countries touch all the areas, without their unique competitive services or contents. They run tens or hundreds of businesses under the brand of their communications.

Now being in the stage of media segmentation, individual companies should review their competitiveness, and then strengthen their uniqueness and character. (The end)