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Me too, I expected more. Given 2 billion daily active users, then 0.005% of the users are children who are being sexually harassed.

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Per day.

Yes per day, it’s still a minute percentage

If a child is on facebook for 5 years (the max possible without violating age requirements and assuming the age of majority is 18) and if harassment events are independently distributed, the chance of this particular child suffering sexual harassment is (at least) 1 - (1 - 0.00005)^(365 * 5) = ~8.7%.

Moreover, given that the 13-17 (inclusive) age range represents a small portion of FB's total user base, the 0.005% figure is a deep underestimate itself, meaning the 8.7% is as well.

Everyone is free to their opinion, of course, but "only 8.7% of children on FB are sexually harassed" seems a bit cavalier.

Of course, there's no reason to assume it's independently distributed.

It's better than the rate of child sexual harrassment in real life. So facebook beats real life on this metric.

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