# How much is social media worth? Estimating the value of Facebook by paying users to stop using it

<https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207101>

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## What Jamie wrote

Oh my…

> Though the populations sampled and the auction design differ across the experiments, we consistently find the average Facebook user would require more than $1000 to deactivate their account for one year.

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