News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook. Parent comment

Re:Economists study what happens when people stop using Face... by philpem on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:29AM (#22462932)
Message to the shareholders: "Millions of active users, billions of messages"

The truth: most of those messages are angry and argumentative, and most of those "active users" are just the same people being angry and tribal towards each other.

It makes for good stats, but like all stats, they're just numbers if presented without the context and analysis behind them.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Economists study what happens when people stop using Face... by numpad0 on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:49AM (#22464840)
It makes for good stats and it makes revenues. For those angered victims they would express sympathy if that's what you are going to ask for I guess...? My fear is this is going to destroy the society in a decade or two but then not many company survive that long so in financial risktaking standpoint this can't be significant.
[ Parent | on HN ]