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by ramraj07 1017 days ago
Metas profit for 2022 was 23 billion. Assuming 3 billion users that’s like $8 per user per year of profit. Thats actually quite insane how much value they extract out of each of us.
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I'd also guess that profitability is not spread evenly across all users, and certainly not across all countries.

I'd guess a good chunk of us are worth £0 (or even negative) and then there is a long tail of increasing valuable users who interact with adverts and services.

Amazing how valuable some of the users must be!

Absolutely. The fact that a single ad click for personal injury lawyers could fetch Google hundreds if not thousands of dollars is testamount to this.