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At Facebook's scale even the scraps can be worth millions. And the sad truth is that the vast majority of people will not be deterred by, be aware of, or even
by neotek 8y ago
At Facebook's scale even the scraps can be worth millions.
And the sad truth is that the vast majority of people will not be deterred by, be aware of, or even understand the fact that Facebook is abusing their phone number in this way, so as far as Facebook is concerned it's a small bump in the long road to increased profitability.
- usrusr 8y ago> At Facebook's scale even the scraps can be worth millions. Sure, but the same is true about negative headlines, the effect is just more difficult to quantify. Maybe it's a general world view problem within Facebook, but usually these things are the result of one overly ambitious person or group optimizing the singular bonus metric of their own little fiefdom at the cost of corporation-wide commons. Big organizations need to be extremely vigilant in their defense against internal foes who won't blink an eye costing the company billions for a gain of millions add long as the latter will be attributed to them while the former won't.
- philipodonnell 8y ago"Millions" is still scraps to a company with the scale of Facebook