News has been circulating the internet suggesting that the long awaited IPO (Initial Public Offering) filling by Facebook is due to happen very soon and could even be within the next week, it has been estimated that Facebook valuation could reach as high as $100 Billion, a figure not often seen on Wall Street and certainly one of the largest IPO's of the decade.

The a valuation of $100 Billion is incredible for a company that was only started in 2004 and it would value Facebook at more than Disney ($61 Billion), Amazon ($88 Billion) and McDonalds ($95.6 Billion)

Experts have also predicted that the IPO will generate around 1,000 new Millionaires as Facebook offers its stock to the public for the first time and the IPO is expected to raise around $10 Billion in additional funding for the Social Network Giant, that has a member base of almost 1 Billion users.

Wall Street is now preparing itself for a colossal breakout of hungry investors as they all try and grab a part of Facebook, Scott Sweet of IPO Boutique said "The minute the IPO is filed, there will be pandemonium".

The IPO will indeed make 27 year old Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a very wealthy individual who still owns 24% of the Facebook empire, others who will benefit immensely are Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz who owns 6% and Eduardo Saverin who owns 5%, Napsters Founder Sean Parker who owns 4% and PayPal Founder and Investor Peter Thiel who owns 3%.

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