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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by vecter on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:05PM (#12139224)
Your claim of "no value" is clearly wrong. A consumer internet company cannot be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, have billions of users, and add "no value".
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by metaphorm on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:23PM (#12139341)
define value. establish how FB provides value according to your definition. social habits and popularity alone are not sufficient to establish value.

remember, we're talking about value for FB users, not value for FB customers (i.e. advertisers).

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by mpbm on Saturday July 23, 2016 @07:55AM (#12149217)
Yeah they are. Social habits and popularity are inherently valuable. Another way to say the same thing would be "what do people spend their attention on." If you capture and/or channel their attention, that's valuable.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by vecter on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:44PM (#12139490)
If a person uses Facebook in a given day, they've received value from it. Otherwise they wouldn't have used it.
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