These are not decisions for Facebook - Social media revealed

IT is possible to argue that Facebook is more influential and has a greater reach than history’s most successful empires. 

It may stretch plausibility to suggest that it has more clout, that it has a more pertinent presence than any democratic, despotic or even religious entity active today. However, if Mark Zuckerberg’s coyly named “social media” corporation continues to grow at the pace it has over the last 13 years, consuming one rival after another in one multi-billion dollar buy-out after another, that argument may be won by the end of this decade. It will certainly be won by the end of the next.

Facebook is used by nearly two billion people — more than one-in-four of the world’s population. At the end of March, 1.28bn people used it to interact in myriad ways every day. It has 18,770 employees, about 1,500 of whom are based in Ireland. Revenues grew from $7.87bn in 2013 to $27.64bn in 2016 — almost a factor of four in three years.