subject: Has The Era Of Facebook Passed [print this page] According to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll, half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad.
Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone, founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking website.
More than 40 percent of American adults log in to the site to share news, personal observations, photos and more at least once a week. In all, some 900 million people around the world are users. Facebooks revenue grew from $777 million in 2009 to $3.7 billion last year. And in the first quarter of 2012 it was more than $1 billion.
The privacy issue is a stinger. Three of every five Facebook users say they have little or no faith that the company will protect their personal information. Only 13 percent trust Facebook to guard their data, and only 12 percent would feel safe making purchases through the site. Even Facebooks most dedicated users are wary half of those who use the site daily say they wouldnt feel safe buying things on the network.
As for how Facebook makes most of its money selling ads 57 percent of users say they never click on them or on Facebooks sponsored content. About another quarter say they rarely do.
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