Why Facebook must lighten up

Facebook needs to focus on quality over quantity to sustain its incredible revenue growth

Mark Zuckerberg, founder, Facebook Picture: Bloomberg

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook confirmed last Wednesday that it’s the internet’s hottest growth story.

To stay that way, the company will have to double down in a crucial area: selling more high-priced advertisements.

To explain why, let us think of the three basic ways Facebook can increase its revenue:

1. Sign up more people to Facebook, Instagram or other company properties, or lure existing users to spend more time there. More people or time ...