- Nonetheless, there are reasons to be sceptical about the speed at which Facebook’s revenues and profits can grow. In America and much of Europe just about anyone who might want to join already has; and the ratio of daily to monthly users ticked down in North America, Europe and Asia—a sign to some of “Facebook fatigue”. So Facebook must make money from the members it has rather than simply by adding new ones. And it must find a way to do so on mobile devices, from which most Facebookers now check the site (56.9% of monthly users did so in the second quarter). There is little space for ads on a smartphone; and ads must not just avoid irritating users, but make them click.
It still amazes me that these so call experts are "surprised" at the slowing growth.
A personal example is my cartoon blog
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the only thing I have stats for. www.reddit.com 92%
www.google.com 2.4% direct searches
belfrycomics.net 2% free listing took 5 minutes
hubski.com 1.8% nearly 100% of my feed back you guys rock.
www.thewebcomiclist.com .07% sporadic discussion on the board
www.last.fm .05% music friends
www.facebook.com .03 exactly the same effort I put into reddit. notice how facebook does not give a very good return.
FB is a social segragator by design not a place to make friends. Ones FB friends are mostly folks you already from other places that way folks who went to Brown don't comment on the discussions of their betters. Not judging them but by design it makes it crap for promoting stuff.
I think Google is a bit scared too Internet Advertising just does not work well. That is way in the next few year they will look more like Time-warner Cable than a search company.
- I think Google is a bit scared too Internet Advertising just does not work well.
Well, Google at least has the advantage that people go there to look for things. Sometimes these things can be bought. I never go to Facebook to look for something that can be bought. You know, the thought just came to my mind: Women's magazines are about 90% ads, but the ads are pretty. I wonder if you could make a site that was 90% pretty ads. Hell, make it 100% ads...
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