The Rising Call for Facebook and other Social Media Sites to Become Advertising Platforms

The Rising Call for Facebook and other
Social Media Sites to Become Advertising
Platforms
The Internet is a continuously growing avenue to a lot of
online businessmen. However, along with this growth and
progress of the Internet as a platform to do business is the need
for a powerful and extremely strong advertising platform in
order to capture more potential clients for the company.
Today, Facebook and other social media sites are being
molded into not being a mere social networking site or a social
media site. These sites are aggressively being formed into becoming
one of the most powerful advertising platforms there is in the
Internet. This is what majority of online business are trying to
envision in the next few years to come. Just recently, Facebook
has undergone several re-structuring phases on its totality
beginning with its applications and features.
The inclusion of Marketplace application in Facebook is a
clear indication that the makers of it are hugely considering the
high potential of Facebook as one of the advertising platforms
that will drive better marketing strategies in the near future.
Apart from that, it is also clearly visible these days that social
media sites like Friendster and MySpace are not mere social
media platforms that try to put connection between and among
people. More notably, with the inclusion of advertisements as
part of their pages, clearly manifests that they are also re-shaping
the structure of these social media/networking sites into becoming
business networking sites.
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In the next few months, the call for these social media
sites to become the pillars in advertising platforms will become
visible and a lot louder.