3 Ways Facebook Plans to Exploit Users(finance.yahoo.com) |
3 Ways Facebook Plans to Exploit Users(finance.yahoo.com) |
They'll find an innovative way to monetise users obliquely. I'm betting on search.
I don't know. Massive UI changes, a growing creepiness factor and privacy scandals may have caused a tiny number of people, myself included, to leave but I think you underestimate people's ability to suffer through things. To prompt a mass exodus the inconvenience and annoyance caused by ads would have to outweight the huge benefit of social connectivity with a large number of people. There would have to be a better alternative (G+ ?) and an easy way to migrate without losing all your contacts before most users would even consider leaving imho.
They clearly get some value out of the service, which they get for free, so 'nothing' is not accurate. Economics fail.