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You just have to think that with all that personal information and large active audience spending a lot of time on Facebook that someone can print money.

Surely they can create purchasing intent simply by working out what users want to buy next based on yet profiles. What about growing existing elements like events (meetup.com) and chat (Skype, hangouts).

Feels by economies of size and scale Facebook has to create value.



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