The latest privacy red flags to emerge out of Facebook — thanks this time to a bombshell New York Times report that uncovered all kinds of hairbrained moves, like Facebook allowing outside companies to get a peek at users’ private messages — is adding more fuel to the fire. The fire in this case being the informal #DeleteFacebook movement, which tends to pick up a head of steam whenever new privacy-related revelations like these arise.
It sometimes spurs big names to announce their own departures from using the service, as former tech journalist Walt Mossberg did in recent days, which spurs even more people to get in on the act. Naturally, that led some researchers to ponder — could a monetary incentive actually spur people to give up Facebook? And if so, how much would it take? Well, folks, we have an answer.
$1,000 appears to be the magic number.
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Study: If you pay the average person at least $1,000, they’ll #DeleteFacebook originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 00:06:44 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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