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by tehjoker 159 days ago
I don't know the full details, but 700M users and 1 million per a week, means up to 52M per year though I imagine a lot of them show up multiple weeks.
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You also don't take into account that the userbase itself is shifting.

That being said: Those of us who grew up when the internet was still young remember alt.suicide.holiday, and when you could buy books explaining relatively painless methods on amazon. People are depressed. It's a result of the way we choose to live as a civilization. Some don't make the cut. We should start accepting that. In fact, forcing people to live on in a world that is unsuited for happiness might constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

Maybe, just maybe, we should fix the fucked up world we created instead? Shunning the modern culture of individualism would be a great first step, followed by promoting communal culture. Live exactly how we evolved to live for hundreds of thousands of years.