Can Facebook Grow More?

The social networking site has grown massively, but investors are now wondering if there's space for more growth or not.

Facebook Inc has achieved a little bit of what it has always planned to obtain and that is: millions and millions of more active users. According to recent news, it was seen that currently the social networking site has recorded around 1.4 billion users to be active on its media platform. Since 2004 when the media company was initiated, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is looking for reasons to growth. In 2008, after four years only, the firm had received an active user base of 100 million users which was taken well by the networking company. Keeping in mind the current situation of the firm where the monthly active users are seen to be more than the massive population of China, the investors and shareholders are now wondering whether there is more space for more users or not.

In the last quarter that was reported by Facebook networking company, it was noted down that MAU showed a slower speed of growth increasing by around 13 percent only while on the other hand, the quarter before that recorded a growth of around 15 percent in the users. To answer the question of investors and shareholders whether the firm will grow further or not, some analysts have given their verdict that they believe the social media platform to have a lot more space to expand more. This is being said, however, due to the plans of the media company that analysts believe are going to work in quite a positive way for it.

Recently it was seen that Facebook app was launched again in a version that was smaller in size but quite useful for users who use internet connections that are slower than others. This release of a compact app is for users who are seen using internet on 2G networks rather than 3G and 4G and it has been released not only in Africa and Europe but also in Asia and Latin America. The size of the app is just about 1 MB which makes it all the more easier for users to download it.

In the light weighted app, options of sharing photos have been provided along with the push notification system. However, some of the features have been eradicated from the app given its small size, which include watching videos and tracking locations of the users.

Other than that, the free internet feature that has been provided to developing countries by the social media network through internet.org is another venture that is making analysts quite positive about the future of the company, as through this new platform, the users are growing at a massive speed.