A survey has revealed that about 900 million users of the social networking giant, Facebook from around the world do not hold a high opinion of the company and distrusts Facebook.

The poll showed that the if the company was a Facebook user itself, it would have several virtual friends but not many real friends. The users are found to be concerned about the amount of information shared by the company about the users with third party advertisers and others. The distrust does not speak well for the company as it might limit the appeal to the advertisers.

In a new poll of adults in the US, only 13 per cent said that they trust Facebook "completely" or "a lot" when it comes to keeping their personal information private. About 59 per cent said they trust Facebook "only a little," or "not at all." 83 percent of respondents said they "hardly ever" or "never" click on the ads that are showed by Facebook, indicating lack of interest from the users.

Facebook does not offer data directly to the advertisers and only aims at delivering ads to groups of people and it is trying to find out about how to identify these groups of people.