How Much Is Your Favorite Free App Worth to You?

> People preferred Google Search the most — even more than meeting friends in person — followed by YouTube and Google Maps. Twitter and Snapchat were the least preferred services, while Facebook was somewhere in the middle. The researchers used their findings on how much money people would accept to stop using Facebook to extrapolate the dollar value of other products. The study was conducted in partnership with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp; the company had no veto over published results.

People would rather have Google Search than meeting friends in person? Well we are marching towards a sad dystopian future if thats the case.

Its also interesting that Meta partnered for the survey. We have heard rumors of Facebook wanting to offer some sort of premium or paid version of Facebook which sounds like it could still be something on their radar.