Do Users Trust Facebook? Site Lags Behind Rivals on Trustworthiness

Originally published on Fox Business As Facebook puts the finishing touches on the biggest debut in Silicon Valley history, a new report shows the social network trails many rivals in the key category of trust. According to a poll released Tuesday night by E-Poll Market Research, Facebook scored a 5 in terms of trustworthiness, compared with 13 for Google+ and 7 for professional social-network LinkedIn (LNKD: 110.99, +0.43, +0.39%). Facebook's trustworthy score matches that of virtual pinboard site Pinterest and tops Twitter's score of just two. Facebook is poised to go public later this week in a massive IPO that could raise as much as $16 billion and value the Mark Zuckerberg company at more than $100 billion -- around the size of online retail giant Amazon.com (AMZN: 223.83, -0.56, -0.25%). Yet the new poll shows Facebook has a large trust deficit when compared with other large technology companies. Continue reading this article here.