Would have been nice if they decided to give that option during the early days when they made the decision to start mining data and selling it off. I totally would have been up for a reasonable fee to keep my data felt bad for Julian from being sold.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
FB is struggling with an interesting problem. If you have enough early adopters, the rest of the population will follow. These things behave a bit like the critical mass in nuclear fission. Once you cross over a specific threshold, that’s when things start happening. In the early days of FB, it was all about growth and providing value to the users.
Once they had enough users, they started selling user data to advertisers. At that point, the most users weren’t particularly aware of privacy, and you could argue that it still isn’t ja major concern for a most people who use platforms like Tweetook or Snapstgram. Providing a privacy friendly option wasn’t really that necessary back in those days. Providing a paid option might also hurt the ad sales, so that would have been a risky move. If you’re only harvesting data from a certain part of the users, you’re essentially selling an inferior product to the advertisers, which would make it even riskier.