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If you live in US, the number has to be probably close to $30/month to match what FB is making out of you

How do you come to that number? $30 per month from WhatsApp alone? This source seems to think it's closer to $30 per year per user for the whole of facebook: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average...

For US users: https://market.us/statistics/social-media/facebook/

Is it per year? Per Quarter? Not clear to me.

But yeah, definitely not per month, but also much higher than the $1/year the GP is offering.

Ah true, for US users it would be a lot higher. Seems to be around $10 billion per quarter of revenue for US and Canada[1], which means around 15 per user (for around 250 million users[2]. You weren't that far off! That's definitely a lot more than what the gut feeling I had was (which is why I just googled the first stat that seemed to align with my hunch - classic mistake).

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/223280/facebooks-quarter... 2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-face... + ~20 for canada

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