The people on Facebook who tell you how their friend made $85,000 a year working from home are doing quite well for themselves.
The Guardian reports that a team of researchers in Italy estimated that Facebook spam generates around $202 million a year in annual revenue and that spammers get paid between $13 to $58 per post depending on the number of subscribers a particular page has.
While many of us find Facebook spammers annoying, the spammers themselves actually told the researchers that Facebook tolerates their presence because they generate more hits for Facebook pages.
“Facebook doesn’t ban us, simply because we generate the content on Facebook itself,” one spammer explained
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Kenneth Leon | Press Release: Facebook spam estimated to be a $200 million industry
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