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Facebook's ad revenue per user is something like $5 a year: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/facebooks-revenue-topped-5-per-user-for-the-first-time.html https://

Facebook's ad revenue per user is something like $5 a year: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/facebooks-revenue-topped-5-per-user-for-the-first-time.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/facebooks-revenue-topped-5-p... Presumably their per user costs eat up most of that. That means that having any human manually do anything for you will almost certainly cost more than the value you bring to them. Ad supported stuff generally cannot provide customer support, excepting perhaps paid customer support, which people tend to find horribly objectionable.

tivert 8y ago
> Facebook's ad revenue per user is something like $5 a year It looks like that's the global number, which includes people too poor to afford an internet connection (so FB subsidizes that for them to keep up its user growth statistics). Your link also states: > In the U.S. and Canada, ARPU rose 35 percent to $21.20.
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code_duck 8y ago
I believe that figure is per quarter, not year, and globally. It is a little over 5 a month for the US and Canada, not per year - 20 something a quarter. Their graphic is page 8 of this earnings report https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2017/Q4/Q4-2017-Earnings-Presentation.pdf https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2017/Q4... which says to see SEC filings for the definition of ARPU. I found "We define ARPU as our total revenue in a given geography during a given quarter, divided by the average of the number of MAUs in the geography at the beginning and end of the quarter." p. 23 http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/2309fab3-1f67-46bc-8d66-7039bc4a0e68.pdf http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/2309fab3...