Facebook is growing too fast for its incomes

Great success comes at a price: Facebook‘s enormous popularity is coming at a great cost to the company.

161 million unique visitors and 61 billion page views. The traffic to Facebook is huge – and has more than doubled during the last year.

Great, you would think. Imagine all the money Facebook can make. Not so. Not yet, at least. Instead bills are piling up.  Only to keep ut with servers Facebook is scheduled to pay USD 100 million this year and the next, according to TechCrunch.

And Facebook is loosing money – and is struggling to find a good way to monetize its users. Which is why the company according to TechCrunch now is testing the capital markets.

It is an irony. Facebook has influenced more people in the world than few other sites, and still is not able to make money. How long will it take? Will there ever be money to be made in the social communities?

Facebook obviously still thinks so, otherwise the investors would have backed out long time ago.

VentureBeat writes: There’s nothing to conclude. It is just too early to know.

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