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Facebook makes $36/user per year, on average. They are mostly about photos. Instagram knows this. $0.99 will be cutting it way too short.

I don't understand why companies like this don't just offer an ad-free pay option with a stronger privacy policy as an alternative to their free option and make everyone happy, except the total freeloaders who want free and their privacy protected. Seems to work fine for Flickr.



Can I have a link for that stat? If I recall they are around 1 billion users. I'm quite certain they didn't make 36 billion last year...

Actual numbers - 4.64B revenue. 400M profit. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=FB




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