Facebook Data Sales Debate
The cluster discusses whether Facebook sells user data directly or uses it to sell targeted ads, emphasizing the distinction between selling raw data and ad targeting services.
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Facebook does not sell data. They sell ad targeting. Selling the data would kill the ad revenue stream and kill the business.
facebook doesnt sell data. facebook sells attention and billboard space. you pay facebook, facebook runs your ad on their platform, and gives you some paramaters for which people are targeted. the data never leaves facebooks black box.
Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells ads. It's in Facebook's interest to prevent advertisers and developers from collecting and misusing data so they buy more ads.
ha. this is smart by fb. if they follow the yahoo model, access to that data is sold to the agencies that want it. they don't get access for free. so fb has an interest in having a nice store of data on offer. it's a nice business unit on its own in addition to their ad selling pursuits.
Why would facebook pay other companies for data about its users?
Wait, why? I thought the whole point of facebook being super invasive was so they could use that data for advertisers
Facebook is incentivised to collect and collate product data because it can then sell targeted ads for those humans. As long as the most cost effective path to those targets is through Facebook, and the aggregate target volume is high enough they will make money. Distributing the login data is just advertising.
Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells targeted ads.
Facebook is selling your data. A site like Reddit and Snapchat don't have same sort of data to sell.
It's part of FB business model that the user doesn't really know what happens with his data.