Facebook: Total Sellout or Total Tease?
It’s been rumored that Yahoo is looking to up their previous bid of $1.65 billion to a solid $2 billion to purchase the social networking site Facebook. It’s also been rumored that Google might pop up out of nowhere with a larger offer. However as previously mentioned these are just rumors, so I take it upon myself to quell the rumors and give the final outcome of the Facebook/Yahoo/Google (sort of) love triangle. I could have called it something else, but this is a blog; the majority of users wouldn’t have heard of it.
Facebook will remain a sovereign nation. For how long, who knows? America’s been sovereign for over what, 200 years? So I give Facebook the same odds, plus or minus a few years depending on their involvement in a Vietnam type skirmish with Xanga. However I envision a few provisions that need to take place in order for Facebook to maintain its freedom; and this is where Yahoo comes in. Facebook will have to take a page out of another social network’s play book and let Yahoo provide them with better search capabilities and advertising much like Google’s $900 million deal with Myspace. However they may have to prove that both their proficiency and “cool factor” outweighs Google’s. The solution: thunderdome.
Yesterday Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the Today Show that he would not sell, and that statement is part of this bulletproof theory, but if you check Facebook’s job listings you’ll see their need for a laundry list of personnel wanted. I know the CEO is only 23, but I’m sure he has enough foresight to not hire Marketing Specialists, Software Engineers, Account/Sales Managers etc. before cashing in, but then again he is only 23.
