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A comment on Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf] by komali2 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:25PM (#16926873)
I thought that was the end game originally - reward users with cash for self providing information companies usually need to pay survey companies to get.
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Re:Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf] by oedenfield on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:35PM (#16926960)
Why pay users when they give it to you for free?
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Re:Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf] by lotsofpulp on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:42PM (#16927017)
Why does Facebook spend money on employees then?
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Re:Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf] by JimmyAustin on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @09:12PM (#16928007)
Presumably Facebook employees would work else where if they weren't paid.
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Re:Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf] by lotsofpulp on Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:23AM (#16930870)
My point was that what people aren't giving their info to Facebook for free, Facebook has to spend money on their employees to create something which people then want to use resulting in them getting information.
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