How does facebook get money if signing up is free?

[Kimberley]

When we use fb, we don't pay anything, so how does the facebook company get money and become rich?

[Problem]

Magnets is the key.

[Gemboo]

the adverts that are on there x

[AdIsHoR]

aa.. advertising ?

You might have noticed they have a lot of ads, that ad space is not free.

[Oogoo]

Advertisement is the one key word. You may not pay anything but thousands do, to have FB put their ads on.

[sewrobb]

It's all about Advertising and the revenue it brings in. No different to this site.

Everyone moans about it [personally it doesn't bother me] but what do you want?

A site that is free to use or one that you would have to pay a hefty subscription to use?

To give you some idea the amount of money it generates, I remember reading an article about ads on TV a few years back. Then it used to cost between £4 to 8,000 for a three minute slot depending on the time of day.

Also don't forget all advertising by a company is tax deductable! That's why we're all swamped with it.

[kate]

Like all free social networking sites, advertising

[JACK Rid]

they generate their revenue through advertising