Social networking website Facebook Inc might delay its first public offering until 2012, source said, citing three people recognizable with the subject. The shift might provide head Executive Mark Zuckerberg extra time to gain consumer and increase trade, but Zuckerberg may still push for a stock sale at any time, the bureau said.

Jonathan Thaw, a spokesperson for Facebook, refuses to statement, source said. Facebook might not instantly be arriving at for remark by Reuters outside normal U.S. business hours. Zuckerberg said in a recent television meeting Facebook will sell stock in an IPO "when it makes sense."