>> Facebook going out of business seems unlikely Is it? Because it seems to me that they are having plenty of issues with gaining the trust of advertisers too.

>> Facebook going out of business seems unlikely Is it? Because it seems to me that they are having plenty of issues with gaining the trust of advertisers too. Considering that advertising is the bread and butter of their business, this would normally be something of a mini-crisis. A quick search for "do advertisers trust facebook" gives me https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/facebook-needs-accountability-to-win-back-advertisers-trust/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/facebook-needs-accountabil... https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/10/facebook-verification-ad-buying/ https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/10/facebook-verification-ad-... http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/01/31/will-facebook-chip-away-its-walled-garden-restore-advertiser-trust http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/01/31/will-facebook-chip-aw... http://www.adageindia.in/digital/40-of-marketers-say-they-plan-facebook-audits/articleshow/56667098.cms http://www.adageindia.in/digital/40-of-marketers-say-they-pl... http://marketingland.com/facebooks-measurement-errors-impacted-marketers-trust-200091 http://marketingland.com/facebooks-measurement-errors-impact... Of course, no one actually believes anything Facebook says with regards to privacy, and probably never did. I would seriously doubt if there is anyone who actually looks at their practices who doesn't think they conduct large scale psychological experiments on the human lab rats who continue to use FB. In other words, seems like there are enough ingredients here for an implosion. Something has to give.