Wednesday 17 March 2010

Have you ever thought before about how does Facebook make money?

Probably, all of users of the Internet have ever noticed any advertisements that exist on the side of the page. Precisely, this advert make money, because companies pay Facebook a big fee for these advert that reach millions of peoples on this site a day.

Today, Facebook is a free service. For the first argument to stay free is that the company can generate money through these advertisements, for the second, we have to think if peoples would pay every times when they will want to use this site, I am sure that NOT. If it's free everybody can and want to have f.ex. his own profile/blog etc.

The Facebook cooperation makes money off the advertisements that they have plastered throughout their entire social website.
We have to remember also that the fact that Facebook is making any money might come as a surprise to some, contrary to some the social networking sites that have real money.

One of the most important think that make the many are gifts and other virtual property that users can buy and give each other, f.ex Myspace was boasting that and it was making almost $1m a day, just for selling adverts on their homepage. This fact can be funny, but this is a true history, the same is with Facebook.

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