Facebook better than expected

[viking60]

Facebook is steadily growing. The sales grew from 1,18 billion dollar in june last year to 1,81 this year and the bottom line did also greatly improve from 295 ti 488 million dollars.

The increase is mainly due to an successful sale of phone adds.

Facebook has 699 million daily users as of June this year which is an increase of 27% from last year.
469 million daily users are accessing Facebook via their smartphones.

All arrows are pointing upwards so the stock took a jump of 14,18 % on Nasdaq since Facebook's results were better than predicted.

It is to early to tell if Prism will have any long term effects.

[dedanna1029]

I can tell you already that Prism won't have an effect. I know of only one person out of 260 friends who, before I left, deleted their facebook. Everyone knew about what was going on with Prism, but are so addicted to the damn thing they either don't care, or they excuse it away by saying "How can you expect privacy when you're posting something publicly." This is another reason I left it. Got tired of the idiots, and even got tired of the crap they post. Things that are not credible or from credible sources, people who post wrong political information (as well as other wrong information) via posting nothing but links, all. day. long. And, all. night. long. It wasn't being used to socialize any more. It was being used solely to support people's agendas, which I don't care about, especially when they grasp at straws and post things that are totally not credible. That's not what it was built for; in fact, there's things in the facebook Terms of Use I believe that state about politics, but no one follows the rules on it, and they get away with it anyway. Porn pages spamming others and getting away with it, all kinds of things going on.

If this is what makes facebook successful, along with no one caring about the NSA watching every last character they type, then f*ck 'em. I don't need it or want it. Zuckerberg's an insult to Open Source IMO because of how he uses it, and someday I'm sure will get brought down a few hundred pegs when another class-action suit comes along that's strong enough to do it. It's just a matter of time, and I, for one, will delight in seeing him and his company get theirs.

I'm highly tempted to get a new user, get the same friends on it but never post, and just sit back and watch how they do over a longer period of time. Should be interesting.

[R_Head]

Is a well known fact the ads in FB and google are clicked by the millions by people in India. Is all smoke and mirrors.

Due to ads overload people are getting deft to them.

[dedanna1029]

Aye, right up to the end, I used Adblock Plus in every browser so as not to get their ads.