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1,3 Billion Users. 2,9 Billion $ revenue. The IPO so high like never before! Facebook just reported record numbers and will even grow further.
How a simple internet network became a gigantic guru. The important stages and the plans.
In just a bit 10 years ago as Mark Zuckerberg was still at the Elit university Harvard. In his student room Mark together with some friends developed an ideah how they could connect easily. In 2004 he brought the internet ideah out and everyone liked it. From the simple project becomes something that is growing everyday by day. Today Facebook is like internet in internet! Mark droped his Psychology studies and still became a billion dollar man.
It was never a planed coup as he would always say. After the first version of the facebook for the Harvard-Commiliton was ready he just said to his friends: " Okay it´s nice that with this intrument you can actually build a community at the uni... but no question that one day this will serve the whole world" . Am sure did´nt know how far this could go.
Actually some other internet guru´s have tried the same ideas but got crushed. We remember Myspace that went online in the USA and became a fast growing network for young people in the internet. Later there is also the famous StudiVZ in Germany. but all of these never stoped facebook on it´s pace of growth. From the US universities this thing get blown across nations and everyone, friends and families and creating there own profiles on facebook. In Germany it´s the number one social network platform not even the giant Google could stop facebook with the Google+
Now facebook has presented it´s numbers. Infact record numbers indeed. Especially the mobile apps are getting new users daily. They just added about 1,07 Billion new apps users. The smathphone user are the most active users though. You know we alway exchange or communicate with family and friends using our Iphones and Samsung gadgets. With the online ads, facebook is ,making about 62% profit through the mobile version. Just less than a year ago it was 41%. US users spent about 40 minutes each day on Facebook.
Though facebook has to bounce back from their "Graph Search". It didnt work well. The facebook home didnt work at all for Andorid Smartphones, the foto-app "Poke" were´nt fine. Even there was a mistaken start at the IPO. Mark recalled saying " We had to take some beaten!"In Europe there are still some Privacy questiones to be cleard. . Some politicians are still not sure if citizens datas are handled with care. In June this year there was a realease of the questionable Psycho-Experiment: 700000 english speaking users are used as test people withoutt their conscent at all. It´s said that they were manipulated since January 2012 for a weeklong with regular changes in their status reports. Later facebook issued an apology.
So what are the rezept of the Facebook sucess?
There are no waiting. When Facebook saw something that it like, they just buy it. And when it´s necessary to make a change, the do it. The opinion of the users dont make so much impact at all.
The social network is always getting it´s fine tunings. It´s also no secret that Mark is dealing in solely in American way!
Mark Zuckerberg still have some other future plans like the project Virtualy-Reality-Glass Oculus Rift. They said this is going to be the next computerplattform.
They are also planning on global internet for everyone on planet earth! To reach those long without internet using Drohn´s and satelite will countinue to grow.
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