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by phoe-krk 2415 days ago
> ~$20(!) for something Facebook enables at no monetary cost?

These costs are not something that Facebook does not suffer - all these infrastructure, development, maintenance and other expenses exist for every online service.

In case of Facebook, though, these expenses are paid by you being not also the user, but also its main product. And, as much as I would like to think otherwise, Friended - as a VC-backed service - will also go in the same direction once it finishes its "growth" stage and enters the "milking" stage.