The ONLY reason I still use Facebook is because I have 174 blocked apps that make my news feed give me relevant information about my friends. If I get spammed with Farmville, Mafia Wars and Horoscope crap, it won't be worth my time at all.
[citation][nom]WhysoBluepandabear[/nom]I can't understand this anymore - truly I can't. WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE AND THEIR GREED!? Do you know how much revenue and profits Facebook makes? Isn't the billions of dollars they're worth enough? [/citation]
Unfortunately growth is what drives investors to invest. Consistent profit isn't good enough. They could make 100 billion a year in profit, but if it doesn't keep going up by their predicted percentages, investors bail. Companies must cut corners, reduce quality of their products, reduce highly paid employees (but not execs) and use moneygrubbing tactics in order to increase those profits.
It's really quite lame, is getting worse, and will only get worse in decades to come as more of the world's wealth is in the hands of a tiny percentage of the population.