As i saw the reviews,i found out
facebook is making plenty of money from the day it is published..now over $4 billion annual revenue is recorded!!and it could be $10 or $15 billion annual revenue in coming 5 years or so.As i quote from yahoo..
Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and
sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the
postapocalyptic movie "The Day After Tomorrow": bleak, desolate and
really quite sad. (Or MySpace, if that is easier to imagine.) Facebook
surely would never be valued at anything close to $100 billion, which it
very well could be in its coming initial public offering.
In the company's S-1 filing, submitted to the Securities and Exchange
Commission this week, Facebook boasts about its statistics: annually,
people "like" one trillion things; 91 billion photos are uploaded; half a
billion people use Facebook on mobile phones; and hundreds of millions
are annoyingly "poked."
So all this leaves me with a question: Where's my cut? I helped build
this thing, too. Facebook laid the foundation of the house and put in
the plumbing, but we put up the walls, picked out the furniture, painted
and hung photos, and invited everyone over for dinner parties.
I for one would feel more comfortable with Facebook looking through
my phonebook, wallet and underwear drawer if I knew I was going to get
paid for it.
Jaron Lanier, one of the deepest thinkers on the impacts of
technology on society and an "innovator in residence" at the Annenberg
School at the University of Southern California, worries about companies
like Facebook and Twitter not paying their users while the people lucky
enough to work for them become rich from free user-generated content.
Mr. Lanier says that as more money flows to those who build these
networks, society distorts and divides. Those without the skills needed
in this new economy - other than to tweet and post pictures - can fall
further behind economically.
"The value comes from the people; none of it is self-created," Mr.
Lanier said in an interview. He warns that if society doesn't devise
economic solutions to social networks, there could be "serious social
blowback."
Sure, $50 might not seem like a lot of money right now, but if
Facebook continues to grow as it has in the past, its $4 billion in
annual revenue could be in the tens of billions of dollars in a few
years. If that happens, I should be expecting a dividend.
So, Mr. Zuckerberg, feel free to message me on Facebook, and I'll
give you my address so you can send me a check - unless, as I suspect,
you already know where I live.
So,with this kind of statement..i think most of the users of facebook has the rights to get some cash from the CEO..well,we all need cash right?? =D and nowadays,facebook-ing been a daily requirement in life for most of the teens out there.so why not??
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