The New Yorker profiles the problem with Facebook’s shares. The relative implosion of Facebook’s stock price the last week and a half (down around 25% from the IPO price) has a lot of causes. The more we, the public, understand the way information was kept from us, the less interested we are in being part owner of a company that doesn’t like us, much less even trust us to know what the best interests of the company are.
In what scenario would someone want to own shares in a company that they have no input in?