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Old 10-28-10, 08:45 PM   #27
krashkart
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Originally Posted by Platapus View Post
I just can't get around these related facts about social networking sites

1. It is free to me
2. It costs a lot of money to run and maintain facebook
3. The money has to come from somewhere
4. What does facebook have that companies will be willing to pay for?????


Data. And the right data is worth a lot of money.

So how does facebook stay in business? Click ads?
Yeah, that's where I lost interest in FB. My information has probably been sold hundreds of times over, and there's nothing I can do about that except to stay away from those services. I'd rather not be treated like an involuntary commodity.
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