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The parent's example accounts for this. Gratis, you use Facebook; they sell your information. That's why people, before they hear about Facebook's revenue model
by delish 8y ago
The parent's example accounts for this. Gratis, you use Facebook; they sell your information. That's why people, before they hear about Facebook's revenue model, ask, "What's the catch?"
- tux1968 8y agoNo. You use Facebook, they already make money by providing access to your eyeballs to advertisers. Selling your information is an additional take. In either case, all I was saying is that the analogy with a baker giving you food to stay alive for free, is a little too generous to be applied to FB. Maybe it's a bit more like a baker that only gives you free bread once you've come to his store to shake hands and listen to the sales pitch of 10 of his business friends. And then after all that he still quietly spies on you and sells whatever he can glean about you, to people you've never met.