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Facebook was created about 5 years ago from a dorm room at Harvard University. Since then it has been announced they have over 300 millions users. The greatest news is they are finally breaking even in operating costs.

Many people wonder how Facebook makes money when it doesn’t cost us 1 dime to create a Facebook Account. The answer is easy, advertising! Every single page you view on Facebook has advertising on the right column. Whenever you click that ad, the advertiser pays Facebook a “click fee”. This could be anywhere from pennies to dollars, depending on who else wants to advertise. Think of it as an auction.

The difference between advertising on Facebook versus Google, Yahoo and Bing is simple. You can set your target. I can tell Facebook that I only want my ads to show to women between the ages of 35 and 55. I can even go a step further and request a minimum educational background.

So if I was selling women’s perfume my ideal target could be a female over the age of 20 something? During holidays like Christmas & Valentines Day I would advertise to the men as well in hopes they would purchase for a gift.

If you have teenagers who use Facebook check out the advertising they see next time they are logged on. It’s all aimed to kids in their age bracket.

Besides age and sex targets you can set a radius if you are a local business. Let’s say I have a take out Chinese Restaurant. I could have an add run for a couple hours before dinner every night to any user between the ages of 18 and 100. I just simply set a radius of 8 miles or so.

Let’s face it folks, Facebook is hear to stay. If you’re looking for a new way of advertising this could be your answer. Just take 50 bucks or so and play around. Many businesses aren’t aware of this hug marketing potential.

Twitter has been down this morning for about 30 minutes (so far). It still isn’t back up. Strangely it appears Facebook is having problems as well. A coincidence? I doubt it. I smell an attack. Does anyone have any information?

Update: According to CNN, twitter was indeed attacked. They were down for hours. Facebook was also attacked, but they seemed more prepared for it.

Mafia Wars On Facebook - Members Wanted

OK is anyone else addicted to this game? My wife got me involved with the mob a couple of months ago, and I spend at least an hour a day playing.

I really wasn’t a bad guy before this, but as of today here is my rap sheet:

• I am classified as a “maniac”, level 103.
• I’ve performed 2,637 “jobs” for my mafia.
• I ‘ve beat up 796 people. (Other criminals only)
• I’ve been beaten up 1,873 times.
• I got whacked 112 times
• I’ve put out mob hits on 15 people, killing them all.
• I personally performed 1 mob hit.
• I’ve performed 4,774 successful heists netting 100’s of millions of dollars.
• I’ve been robbed 753 times.

After a couple months of playing, here is my income and assets:

• I make $44,180,375 an hour
• I own 27 bars
• I own 21 Office Buildings
• I own 98 5 Star Hotels
• I own 2 Marinas
• I own 69 Mega Casinos
• I have over 500 Lincoln Town Cars, almost 100 speed boats and hundreds of other vehicles including 89 motorcycles.
• I have almost a billion dollars in the bank

OK, so here’s the deal. I need more Mafia members! Click below to go to my facebook and request friendship saying “mafia wars” in your comments and let’s get going!

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