"So many users kept on saying, 'Koreans like taking photos of people.
The company doesn't need information given unwillingly, when so many users end up giving it unknowingly.
Buying bandwidth to deliver content to so many users is expensive, and so are the rights to license content.
"You can't just go with another network because you wouldn't have the value of so many users".
"Google has so many users, and more of them are starting to pick up on local search," she said.
"Reddit has so many users and so many people getting online and figuring out what's going on through their own sleuthing.
"This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users.
We built the content management system (CMS) so that it's intuitive, straightforward and, hopefully, unbreakable but with so many users issues inevitably arise.
This is especially true, Mr. Wolf said, because so many users do not bother to secure their networks with passwords or encryption programs.
Senior executives at Oracle, a subcontractor based in California that provided identity management software used in the registration process that has frustrated so many users, defended the company's work.
It's not "a good feeling," he said, but he added that he remained confident that with so many users and so much data about them, Facebook was destined to be the most lucrative advertising platform in the world.
