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facebook should give a cut of the revenue to each user whose data was used.
by jpwagner 14y ago
facebook should give a cut of the revenue to each user whose data was used.
- coopdog 14y agowhy?
- jpwagner 14y agowouldnt this flip the issue. rather than users complaining about their data being used, they'd be involved in a marketplace to make their browsing data more valuable.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoSounds like such a setup could be easily gamed to me.
- jpwagner 14y agohow is this not good? it's exactly how "seo" became an everyday term...
- ceejayoz 14y ago"How is this not good? It's exactly like [NOT GOOD THING]..."
- mike-cardwell 14y agoGoogle Adsense is much worse than it could be for advertisers because of people gaming it. Why should Facebook add an element of gaming to their own system which in turn makes it much worse for advertisers? Also, it would cost a fortune to build and maintain a system for sending payments out to millions of users. Also, they could just keep the money to themselves instead of giving it away.
- jpwagner 14y agothe whole point is that if they keep the money then the users won't game the system, they'll complain that fb is selling their data...
- ceejayoz 14y agoUsers complain when Facebook changes a font size, or a button color. They complain no matter what, and Facebook has gotten quite good at just letting them whine away for a week or two until they give up and shut up.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoNo they wont. They wont complain about it, because they wont know or care about it. It's not worth it for Facebook to sink billions of dollars to appease a handful of people who actually care about their privacy.
- ceejayoz 14y agoAnd send you an invoice for use of the site that exactly equals it?
- jpwagner 14y agowhy? facebook would benefit a ton from crowdsourcing their revenue. users could artificially drive up the value of their browsing history through various tricks that would develop.
- ceejayoz 14y agoYou're getting use of Facebook for free. If you want a cut of their revenue, why shouldn't they charge you for access?