How would you monetize a social media site?
leftnode: Simply charge them for it. I don't understand why not. I haven't read the latest stats on how big Facebook is, but lets put it at 200 million real users. Let's say that Facebook says that it now costs $5 a month to use. You get all of the same features you have now, unlimited everything, just like now. If only 5 million stayed and paid that amount, thats $25,000,000 a month.I would much rather have $25,000,000 a month in real cash, than having other people give me money and have part of my company. Facebook is unlike Twitter. There are a bunch of Twitter clones out there, and Twitter is fairly easy to copy. If Twitter started charging for its services, 99% of the users would migrate somewhere else. I think Facebook has a powerful enough application that other companies couldn't touch it for years, and people would pay for it.