How Is Facebook the Least Popular Social Media Site?

Updated

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has more than 900 million members, yet according to these results from the 2012 American Customer Satisfaction Index, its users are the most dissatisfied. Below is a subset of the table ACSI published.

Social Media Site

2011

2012

Previous Year % Change

Internet Social Media

70

69

(1.4)

Wikipedia

78

78

0.0

Google+

N/M

78

N/A

YouTube (Google)

74

73

(1.4)

Pinterest

N/M

69

N/A

Twitter.com

N/M

64

N/A

All Others

67

64

(4.5)

LinkedIn

N/M

63

N/A

Facebook

66

61

(7.6)

MySpace

N/M

N/M

N/A

In today's video, Greg looks at who are the best at delighting users in the social media space and explores ways Facebook can overcome its low ranking, including integrating more tightly into Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) 's iOS.

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