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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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