Facebook has an interesting story, the creators and the social network itself. It is today amongst the top technology companies in the world. But that journey to the top took its due time and course. Facebook generates a lot of revenue and more so its users do the earning for it. more than the ads, Facebook depends on its devoted users for success.
According to a recent report, Facebook makes an average of $1.21 from you per quarter. The factors on which Facebook’s earnings depend are on who its users are and where do they live. The earnings of Facebook in this first quarter from January to March have been just $205 million. Though its revenue still totals to $1.058 billion.
Hence, for Facebook, its users are likes its products that it can sell and generate revenue from. Now, if anyone is thinking that they would not let themselves be used by Facebook in this, they simply would have to quit the network. Every click that a user makes on Facebook turns into a chunk of money. But there is a cycle from which you can break away, provided that you don’t check on the ads and then don’t go on to buy the products advertised.
Your worth of $1.21 is just for one quarter, not a year. You multiply it by 4, you will get a year’s worth. It is $4.84 a year. Facebook recently boasted about its membership crossing 901 million users, which makes about one in every 7.7 people on earth.