Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It

Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by jancsika on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:27PM (#18722511)

> I bet if you took that same group and said Facebook now costs 1000 a year to use they would all quit.

10 cigarettes a day * 30 days / 20 cigarettes in a pack = 15

15 packs a month * $6 per pack = $90 per month

$1000 a year / 12 months in a year= $83

Keeping in mind that each individual cigarette doesn't even have any event listeners hooked up to it to gather usage data...

Yeah, I'd take that bet.

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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by Izkata on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:41PM (#18727713)

As the video game world learned, you're not comparing the same thing. Microtransactions that add up to $1000 is very different than a lump sum once per year.

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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by alanlamm on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:47PM (#18722583)

Hmm cigarettes with analytics...

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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by tonyedgecombe on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:19AM (#18723754)

You could give them away for free and make it up by selling adverts for chemo.

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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by cstrat on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:34PM (#18722536)

If you're in Australia those packs will cost $40 each in 2020.

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