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Comment by anticristi | Hacker News Reader

30$/user/year seems to be accurate. Facebook reported 86 billion USD for 2020 [1] and 2.89 billion MAU [2]. When computing the ratio, the geek inside me feels particularly satisfied to reduce billion from the numerator and denominator. :)

So 2€/user/month seems priced well.

[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

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wait wtf why wont they just charge it then

ffs

i thought its 30 per month and thats why they dont do it, now i am even more upset for all the spying..

oh wait, thats 2.8b mau but most of them are worth nothing, look at west europe and north america, and only subset of them, its like 200 million people that have to pay

    >>> (89000000000/200000000) / 12
    37.083333333333336

Most people would not even pay a cent

i think the problem is that the people that will pay a cent are the people they are making 40$ per month from, and the rest of the MAUs are probably almost worthless

so if they start charging, they will only lose

I wonder how many users are unbanked and can't even pay a cent.

because data has some intangible value not reflected in the quarterly financials.

I wonder how much is enterprise revenue albeit the sites are used as personal services.

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