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by dig6x 2175 days ago
Yeh 100%. The entire premise is that the social offering of FB is free (for the most part, of course users pay in data). I read an interesting article yday on why the 'free' offering of tech companies like FB allows them to thrive versus say an Uber-like tech company that has an explicit cost associated to it even though that is the delivery of a more tangible product i.e. getting from point a to b.
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Interesting article on social capital as currency and why social platforms delay monetisation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708585