> Given that most people seem to care more about free services, than they do about privacy, What a backwards analysis. A social platform that is not already p

> Given that most people seem to care more about free services, than they do about privacy, What a backwards analysis. A social platform that is not already popular is worthless to most people. They have no use for it. Hence they are definitely unwilling to pay for it before it gets popular; there is absolutely no incentive to. And, of course, once a social media platform _already_ is popular, it must have gotten to that point by operating at a loss.