Facebook‚ Inc: The Initial Public Offering 1. How does Facebook make money? What are the value drivers of its business? What is its comparative advantage relative to other social networking companies? (1) Facebook makes money from the following three main fields First is the advertising. According to the case‚ we know that the major revenue of Facebook is advertising‚ which took up 98 percent in 2009‚ 95 percent in 2010 and 85 percent in 2011. Facebook uses all information uploaded
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Chris Enyinda‚ Ph.D.‚ Ph.D. 1a) Facebook generates a revenue of 2 billion dollars a year‚ yes it is free for user to join but that is where they generate there money from. With over 750 million active users Facebook make the majority of their money through advertising. The ads that appear on the right border of the screen. They gather all the information about you and accordingly they let the advertisement that they think you would be interested in appear for you on the screen‚ more like a tailor-made
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Facebook and its negative influence on people’s life The internet has become a part of life to everyone; people use it for almost everything including research‚ pleasure‚ social networking‚ and so much more. The social networking site Facebook is among one of the most popular sites visited and people usually use it to keep in touch with their friends or to make new ones and this site allows them to socialize in an easy way. Despite it has these positive aspects; the overuse of Facebook is causing
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Facebook; what is it about this site that has people going wild over it? At first glance it does not look like anything special compared to some other community sites out there. Sure; you can add friends‚ post comments and see what others are saying or doing. Unlike other sites though Facebook limits you. For instance you cannot edit the look of your home page. It’s the same boring white screen that everyone else has. And yes while there is the ability to add photos and links both in comments and
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Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet‚ where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users‚ Users may create a personal profile‚ add other users as friends and exchange messages‚ including automatic notifications
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Pros and Cons of Using Facebook Millions of people use Facebook daily. It is a place where we can keep in touch with old friends and family. It is also a place where people may spend too much time. Anyone can create a profile so you must be careful whom you choose to interact with when using Facebook. Social networks such as Facebook have become an integral part of our lives‚ but we must be careful how we use them. Facebook is good medium for keeping in touch with old friends‚ but spending too
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Impact of Facebook on society Facebook has become one of the leading social networking sites on the Internet today. It is used by millions of people around the world; there are high school students‚ college students‚ family members and friends using this tool to simply keep in touch with one another‚ while other people have come to use Facebook for business purposes. It is simply a multi billion-dollar organization that has affected the way people communicate today. It is apparent that Facebook has such
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THE REVENUE SOURCES OF FACEBOOK.COM Facebook Revenues Up to $700 Million in 2009‚ On Track Towards $1.1 Billion in 2010 Facebook is tight-lipped about its revenue numbers‚ which is typical of private companies. The most it has said publicly is that it became “free cash-flow positive” as of last September. At the time‚ we estimated it was set to bring in around $550 million for the year in revenues based on previous reports that we and others had heard‚ and from our own calculations. But how did
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media sites marketers are eager to get their advertisements on it in the most appropriate eye-catching way possible‚ what Facebook did was change the way online ads were viewed and conducted‚ they created a new way of making people know about a product‚ and know about products liked by the ones they know best their friends. What are the privacy issues associated with Facebook ads? A limit of Privacy is always is a needed for online users. But we can say that the most used Social media
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Dictionary declared “Facebook” as the Word of the Year in 2009. Based on my eight years of experience as a Facebook member with about 2500 friends on the social network‚ I decided to classify my friends into four different types of categories. These four categories are addicts‚ lovers‚ regulars and those that don’t really care for it but they are tired of people telling them to open a Facebook account. First‚ I have the “Addicts”‚ whom are those that couldn’t survive without Facebook in their lives
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