According to newly released data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook scored a lowly 61 out of 100 in customer satisfaction among active users, an 8-point drop from 2011. That’s the fourth-lowest score among all 230 companies surveyed in the index and the lowest among “e-business” (Internet) companies. Of the seven social networks included in the study, Facebook’s customer satisfaction polled lowest.
A dismal customer service rating might just be a growing pain that any large social network has to contend with. Take Twitter and LinkedIn, which fared only slightly better with 64 and 63, respectively. Both also ranked among the bottom 10 of all companies polled overall. Newcomer Pinterest received a score of 69, while YouTube had 73. Surprisingly, Google+ topped all these with 78, tying with Wikipedia, which for the purposes of the customer satisfaction index was categorized as a social media site. The ACSI, once affiliated with the University of Michigan, is now a private company based in Ann Arbor.
