Article 3R07V Facebook is worth much less to its users than search and email, but it keeps a larger share of the value

Facebook is worth much less to its users than search and email, but it keeps a larger share of the value

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Cory Doctorow
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Economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Felix Eggers and Avinash Gannamaneni have published an NBER paper (Sci-Hub mirror) detailing an experiment where they offered Americans varying sums to give up Facebook, and then used a less-rigorous means to estimate much much Americans valued other kinds of online services: maps, webmail, search, etc. (more")

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