In this context, I would say, in current scenario, after a hectic life style, every one want to interact with their friends apart from his business & collaterally everyone have dont time to call their friend and to know about their status. This is one of the best platform to be updated with all friends n relative in a cube.
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Kumar Prince, Corporate HR, Fujitsu Consulting India
| 07 21 2011 15:27:40 +0000
Fcebook is for the entertainment because we people avoiding product advertisement on online, while we are doing surfing, chating, communicating for our entertainment. But we can say we advertise ourself as individual on facebook. I think more than 90% user of facebook used it for entertainment & 10% for advertisement.
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ALOK SHUKLA, Area Manager, Pearson Education Services Pvt. Ltd.
| 02 23 2011 15:45:10 +0000
Facebook is good for Entertainment not for Advertisement, because most of the users on Facebook come to interact with friends and family. If they want to buy any product or service, they have to google it or use any other search engine, to find a specific website for the product or service. In Facebook, user dont have any option to look for a specific product's advertisement, He can get an add based on the Facebook system.
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Deepak Kakran, CEO & Founder, Empess Infosolutions
| 01 22 2011 23:33:16 +0000
@melit..i m so agree with u.today out of 500 almost 250 millionpeople uses for entertainment..........can u believe this it is true.......
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Abhishek Pandey, B.Ed student, BRCM CET
| 01 22 2011 13:47:46 +0000
i should say that users are more for entertainment..firstly the trend was upon orkut where people made a lot of friends..but now everyone started using facebook where one could find a lot of friends,,play lots of games,try lot of applications and so on..also the actors and actresses r upon facebook n not in orkut.
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melit deepthy thomas, MBA/PGDM student, Bharathiar University
| 01 22 2011 09:37:42 +0000
Facebook for an entertainment.People are happy while they are using - communicating on facebook.
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Virag Shah, Confidential
| 01 20 2011 07:42:43 +0000
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Facebook...today we youth can not imagin life without facebooks, applicaitions, chats etc. Initially when facebook was started, it was just a social networking website with some applications etc. I still remember when I was in 11th in year 2006 when i first saw facebook..it looked a boring and hard to understand website to me with very few Indians..and now facebook is a brand...everywhere and everyone have facebook in his/her life...from celebrities to common man...it is used as a status reflecting word in various advertisements of mobile, mobile services operators, automobiles etc.... Facebook is itself a place for advertisement with gurantee of high growth rate...and huge leads.... It has now became itself a new media of advertisements. From big MNCs to small businesses everyone want to advertise on facebook. It is also a nice platform to raise voice in support or against of any social, political, environmental, or economic issues... I think this monoploy of facebook is going to continue for atleast 5-8 years as google plus can not be trusted as it is too much of closed networking website.
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Gurpreet Singh, Team Associate, BA Continuum Solutions
| 07 22 2011 01:45:25 +0000
Facebook is for the advertisement, because that is the business model of the website. Let us realise that the entertainment side of FB is also geared towards advertisement. The entertainment value increases your frequency of visits -- so that advertisers can catch your attention when you visit. In other words, the actual use of FB is to offer visitors' eyeballs to advertisers and entertainment is merely the bait that makes it possible (and helps FB's owner earn money).
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Shahnawaz Islam, PR & Media Relations Manager, National Institute of Smart Governance
| 02 23 2011 09:42:05 +0000
I think Facebook more or less use for Social Network, Which will further use for Advertising. AS you see tht within a 5 year Users of FACEBOOK is more than ORKUT users. More or less Facebook is best way to Entertain & Advertisement.
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Anuj Patel, Media Reseller, Webaroo Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
| 02 09 2011 12:20:13 +0000
Nowadays Facebook not only for entertainment but also great important for business.Every Businesses either small or big they are trying to advertise or promote there business and products through Facebook.Crating pages on Facebook and making Fans and lots more.Now Facebook No.1 company and social hub for there users. So Enjoy...
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Manish Kumar, Web Marketing, Cranberry Communiactions Pvt. Ltd.
| 01 22 2011 11:51:00 +0000
Its Advertainment! That's the exact word! Social media connects people together so people can explore each others resources- be it for advertisement (B2C) or entertainment (C2C) or advertainment (B2B).
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Anantha Shayana. D, CTO/CIO, RAYSITI
| 01 22 2011 08:26:53 +0000
People on Facebook:More than 500 million active users 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day Average user has 130 friends.People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook Activity on Facebook There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages) Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month. Hence,i would conclude it is more on Advt. and less on Entertaiment.
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Dinesh Kumar Mahto, Software Developer, Aithent Technologies,Gurgaon
| 01 21 2011 15:44:56 +0000
No doubt Sonam It is a Business proposition under the guise of Boasting entertainment,social networking,a platform for connecting friends,relatives & colleagues etc. which has become a high & passionate & fashionable amongst young adolescents. Slowly it is becoming as FACE HOOK & giving rise to Obsessive Compulsion Disorders especially amongst young adolescents by wasting their precious time before the computer thereby generating good revenue to the site for their Advertisement Revenue generation. Off-late its dis-advantage is more than advantage, which is Debatable.
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nagesh rao, Freelancer, Freelancer
| 01 21 2011 07:55:56 +0000
I think the growth of face book shows that it has more for business growth than for entertainment. Infact most of the business entities have link in face book follow up. That is a valid sign of the business proposition. Even the venture capitalist are ploughing more money to the facebook apart from IPO is anticipated for that venture. These things show certainly that FACEBOOK is not for entertainment at least now..
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Jayakumar Kapali, CTO/CIO, IndiaDirect
| 01 21 2011 06:17:10 +0000
It was previously used purely for fun & Leisure time, but due to its increase in popularity of late has made him a tool for advertisement also. As we can already see so many ads popping up here n there in FB..!!!
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G Shravan Kumar, HR Executive, Win IT Pvt. Ltd.
| 01 21 2011 05:11:02 +0000
It like asking is Television for Entertainment or Advertisement. Any platform which gathers a critical mass will eventually looked up to advertise by the advertisers. On the other hand if you take the entertainment part out it beats the core purpose of the platform which will result in loss of audience and hence the loss of advertisement. Thus though the entertainment will always precede, Advertisement will surely follow it.
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Rajeev Sharma, Project Manager, Times Internet Limited
| 01 21 2011 04:37:33 +0000
The social net working site facebook was initiated to exchange views and entertainment.The very shrewed person found the opportunity of reaching out to millions of people without physically meeting face to face. This created advertisement and revenue to facebook and the business. Thanks,Sonam for involving me.
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Mohammad Bakhsh, Project Leader/Managing Consultant, Freelancer
| 01 21 2011 04:12:57 +0000
I am with you Sonam but upto some extent .... Now Facebook is the combination of Entertainment & Advertisement. I would like to highlight a very small thing here " What do u expect from a social networking website", Full entertainment ??? Not possible at all. The motive behind creating any social networking site is to incerese the profit and advertisement is the most popular and effective way to gain the profit and popularity, so FB is doing.
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Mohd Ruhullah, SAP Administrator, Deloitte
| 01 21 2011 03:55:18 +0000
Ya sonam , i agree with you. Earlier it was launched as a normal networking web site just for entertainment and such huge success was not expected. But its simplicity and flexibility atracted more users. If we think as bussiness or marketing point of view, companies took advantage of its popularity. So there are so many adds on facebook. The process got increased and now the picture is like it is not only a big social networking web site, but a very good place of market making too. We all know that after the success of every website, there is a large number of users. More people use the site for entertainment today then advertising. Its a fact. If we say that more people are just advertising on it only then the popularity will decrease rather increasing. But yes , a large bussiness communities are big part of web site users. But at core level entertainment is the thing that is responsible for the popularity of the site
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pooja , IT Faculty, ITFT College
| 01 20 2011 13:53:59 +0000
Although Facebook claims to be social media and socializing is the main activity there, you cannot deny the fact that around the 1 billion dollar has been made by facebook with advertising alone. Companies that use Twitter and Facebook are more likely to generate new business. Social media is not about 'social' any more. It can only continue to exist if there is money to be made.
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Dennis Aries, Owner, Arkro IT
| 01 20 2011 13:25:28 +0000
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