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3 Ways Facebook Plans to Exploit Users
- davidw 15y ago> FB users get nothing. They clearly get some value out of the service, which they get for free, so 'nothing' is not accurate. Economics fail.
- user24 15y agoI call BS, if FB turns into a spam-filled promotional wasteland then everyone will leave, and they're too smart not to know this. They'll find an innovative way to monetise users obliquely. I'm betting on search.
- kiloaper 15y ago>then everyone will leave I don't know. Massive UI changes, a growing creepiness factor and privacy scandals may have caused a tiny number of people, myself included, to leave but I think you underestimate people's ability to suffer through things. To prompt a mass exodus the inconvenience and annoyance caused by ads would have to outweight the huge benefit of social connectivity with a large number of people. There would have to be a better alternative (G+ ?) and an easy way to migrate without losing all your contacts before most users would even consider leaving imho.
- user24 15y agoit happened to myspace.
- kiloaper 15y agoI think Facebook is more entrenched than myspace ever was and that'll make it more resilient. Now everyone is on Facebook not just teenagers, e.g. my 50yr+ aunts and uncles who would have been PC-phobic before. That'll make it harder to leave because of the circles of contacts built up over time.