Facebook reported strong earnings and profits for the third quarter of the year, continuing the company's impressive growth.

However, in a conference call on the discussion of the third quarter results with the company's investors, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's comments revealed that Facebook is still his company.

Facebook reported revenues of $3.20 billion for the third quarter, up 58.9 percent compared to the corresponding quarter last year. Adjusted net income came in at $1.15 billion, an increase of 72.5 percent compared to the third quarter last year. Adjusted net earnings was reported at 43 cents per share, which is 59.3 percent higher compared to the previous third quarter's adjusted earnings of 27 cents per share.

While Facebook's third quarter results were impressive, Zuckerberg's focus in the conference call was his vision for the company over the coming several years. Zuckerberg discussed the recent acquisition of WhatsApp for $21.8 billion, and his desire to increase the user base of the mobile messaging service from 600 million to 1 billion.

Zuckerberg also talked about the possibilities of Oculus VR, which the company acquired for $2 billion, as well as the capability of Facebook to eventually connect people from poor countries to the Internet.

Zuckerberg notably never mentioned the word profit, focusing instead on spending on investments that the company will make for projects that might not lead to financial returns for Facebook any time soon. He even disclosed that the company's expenses could increase by up to 75 percent in 2015 for the company's pending projects.

While Zuckerberg could have nothing but noble intentions with the projects that Facebook is taking on, investors are in the business for profits. With Zuckerberg owning a 55 percent voting control over the company, investors that do not agree with the CEO's plans had no choice but to sell their shares.

And sell their shares, they did. In after-hours trading following the conference call, the stock prices of Facebook decreased by 8.3 percent.

"Wall Street cares about the business model. We care less about changing the world," said Needham & Company analyst Laura Martin.

While tech giant and rival Google also has its share of future-bound projects such as self-driving cars and Wi-Fi balloons, Google is much larger in size compared to Facebook. This means that Google investors are less concerned about investments in such projects as compared to Facebook investors.

Without Zuckerberg even attempting to persuade investors that the projects Facebook is investing in will pay off in the long run, the company could quickly begin to lose the investors that made it possible for the company to acquire the projects in the first place.