Last Month I Paid.pdf

Last month I paid $ 40 to Hulu and $ 15 to the NYT. I also gave $ 3.99 to Amazon for Prime Music (plus $ 99 for the annual membership fee) and $ 0.99 to Apple for extra storage. I can also pay to many other companies, from Tinder to LinkedIn, and even for meditation app Headspace, to use their digital services. But I can't pay for Facebook. 15 years after its launch, FB remains a free service. And so are its complementary apps WhatsApp e Instagram, which each have more than 1 billion users of their own. You can use them all day and FB will never ask you for a cent.

The reason is obvious. Namely, FB charge customers for using their services, but the price is pay in the form of data instead of cash. The company is, and always has been, an insatiable glutton of your personal information. This must change. FB has to start giving customers the option to pay for the use of their platforms and, in return, agree to turn off its machines that suck data.

The price should be use easy to calculate. FB already knows exactly how much their data is worth. There's no reason it couldn’t turn around and charge people Neftlix style. On my own, I would gladly pay $ 11 a month (Average revenue for the company's American users in the fourth quarter) for ad-free FB [to have FB with no ads], especially because this could come with ad-free Insta and Whats with too.