Facebook stock is up in this "very bad year". If Facebook executives could have every single year be just like this one forever, they would take that! Facebook

Facebook stock is up in this "very bad year". If Facebook executives could have every single year be just like this one forever, they would take that! Facebook is certainly suffering if you measure its performance by the tone that journalists take when discussing the company. It's not a good thing per se to have journalists criticize you, but it isn't the most important metric to a company either. Overall, Facebook had a strong, successful year.