‘How Facebook Has Changed Since Going Public 1 Year Ago’ – ‘Mashable’

Seth Fiegerman says, “”Facebook was not originally created to be a company,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in hisSEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012. “It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.”

In the year since the Facebook IPO, some things haven’t changed: Zuckerberg still sports his trademark hoodies, employees still rate their company and their founder highly, and Facebook still talks about its grand mission to make the world more open and connected. But the era of Facebook operating or being perceived as anything other than a corporation seems more distant with each passing day”.