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Re:Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year by cortesoft on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:29PM (#16362402)
But they get paid per eyeball, not by the enjoyment level of the people using the system. They don't care WHY you can't keep your eyes away, as long as you can't keep your eyes away.

From their end, their metric was perfect.

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Re:Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year by opportune on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:38PM (#16362500)
Perfect in the short-term, sure, but if people are leaving the platform then their long-term eyeballs might be suffering for the sake of short-term eyeballs
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Re:Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year by Balgair on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:44PM (#16362564)
It's worse that that. Not only does FB as a company get paid per eyeball, the individual managers get paid per eyeball. Inside the org, the incentives are perverse.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-...

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