I am on FB quite a bit and I don’t see how they make money by adds. I barely notice them and would not think of clicking on one.
“I am on FB quite a bit and I don’t see how they make money by adds. I barely notice them and would not think of clicking on one.”
Most users rarely click through and advertisers are paying for a venue that will not ever work effectively until they can virtually read your mind. That’s what the ultimate goal has become because then users will click thru on ads because it is what you were thinking.
FB eventually wants to catalog every detail of your life and psyche that eventually will marketeers an ability to analyze your mind and mood. Also they want us lemmings to believe that having one’s mind read by marketeers and government is hip. I personally want no part of it.
You do understand that FACEBOOK is all over the world. They make money so many different ways, not just by ads.
FB and Twitter are starting to be used as login entry points to many 3rd party websites and it looks they’ll penetrate further into that market. There are a lot of micro fees that FB is going to be looking to collect on in the future.
I have a FB account but rarely do anything with it. I use Firefox with Adblock Plus and I didn't even realize FB had ads until I read it somewhere recently.
Facebook’s primary product is you. You’re the thing they sell. Ads? Yeah, sure, in the traditional delivery channel of what is now the internet, ads certainly do account for some revenue. But what YOU like and identify as things you view and add to your profile are all demographics that are sold to vendors. Armed with your (and all the millions of other people’s) demographics, retailers fine tune ALL their marketing efforts.
There are two ways to make money on ads --clicks and impressions.
Even though you rarely notice and don't click on the ads, the fact that they are being displayed on a page you're viewing means that FB is making money off of your presence on their site.