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Old 09-16-2009, 07:41 PM  
StuartD
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Originally Posted by bronco67 View Post
It's amazing to me that a website could have 300 million members and just be barely making enough money to operate. Maybe I'm a dumbass about that kind of shit, but how does it happen?
Huge operating costs.
Hardware: servers, bandwidth, cdn, huge infrastructure, etc
Staff: tech staff, reviewers/monitors, programmers, researchers, developers, PR, marketing, etc...


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Originally Posted by okny View Post
Facebook = fake friends.
As opposed to myspace?
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