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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:45PM (#18720605)
I'm not sure why they didn't just ask this question directly?

Both scenarios are hypothetical, as no one is being actually paid to quit Facebook. So, why not make the hypothetical scenario: "Using Facebook now costs $X per month; how high does X need to be before you quit?"

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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by ianferrel on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:46PM (#18720619)
The experiment reported in the paper isn't hypothetical.

They actually paid people to deactivate their Facebook accounts.

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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by arbol on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:18AM (#18723494)
Did they only pay people who make money from Facebook? This wasn't clear to me... 1000 USD seems like a hell of a lot of money for an average user to require.
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