Would you deactivate Facebook for $1000?
With over two billion monthly users worldwide, Facebook has gained the title of the most popular social network.
Social media has changed the way we live and communicate, but it can be difficult to put a monetary value on a free service such as Facebook.
Using a series of auctions in which researchers paid people to close their accounts, the team found that users required around $1000 to deactivate their accounts for one year.
They published the findings recently in the journal PLOS ONE.
How much money would it take to convince you to permanently delete Facebook?
The whole point of Facebook for me is to make networking easy. I don’t use it for personal or family catch ups. When you deactivate your Facebook account, you cut yourself off from enjoying the benefits it provides for networking. So no I won’t deactivate for $1000, if a lot more was offered I may re consider!