You can't make money with Facebook and Skype

The online network Facebook currently has over 200 million users, Skype twice as many. However, the turnover of the two services is not exactly high, and their revenues are even negligible. According to Cash.ch, the companies have so far earned less than one centime per customer per day. The business newspaper identifies the reason for this as the business models are not yet sophisticated enough. This is because the services offered on the Internet primarily earn money by selling user data and advertising. However, the existing models cannot even cover the costs of the services. For example, Ebay had to write off around 1.4 million dollars on Skype in 2007.