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Facebook Should Pay Us for Using Our Data

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9 pointsjeffwass7 comments

They are, with a free service.

Exactly. It will never cease to amaze me how people are quick to place a high value on their own data which they create with no effort, but treat a free service as if it’s basically worthless.

Maybe we need a paid version of Facebook just to make it very clear to these people what the value of what they are getting in exchange for data.

Otherwise, if you want Facebook to make you money become a shareholder.

> Maybe we need a paid version of Facebook

This will never work out. It doesn't work with free competitors to FB, who would it work with a paid version? Even though, frankly, a paid version without ads and with advanced settings would be a pleasure to use.

It doesn’t have to. The only purpose of a paid Facebook is to place a value on the free version of Facebook, and thus stamp out the argument that people are getting their data taken without anything in return.

At last, anyone who complains about privacy could just be backhanded away with a simple statement “Use the paid version”. Assuming the paid version does in fact afford greater privacy and no ads and a tweakable feed algorithm and even analytics for your posted content. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Might actually start using Facebook again.

Without running the risk of side-stepping the overarching issue of privacy and data harvesting, how can credit rating agencies be made to release our data back to us which was not opt-in to begin with?

The more I think this, FB is a free service and was not foisted upon the users and yet media coverage or outrage on the Equifax breach was very limited (in general).

We are not Facebook's customers. Their advertisers are. They owe us practically nothing.

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

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