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This is a note I intended to post over a hebdomad ago, but maked n't get around thereto.

The interrogation is, would you pay $12.99 for 5 hrs of Facebook

The ground I inquire is, until a duo hebdomads ago, I would hold presumed the response was no. Facebook holds gotten the up-to-the-minute in a line of great, free cyberspace wares. It flux unfastened and free, like a trillion pages of Niagara Falls, unimpeded by utilization charges.

So I wing Virgin U.S. to Kennedy & back. 5-6 hrs each mode. And the flights holded WLAN.

( The WiFi was fantastical, by the bye. I got a phenomenal sum of work maked on the aeroplane, and holding unrecorded admission to e-mail and the web was unbelievably utile. Holding realtime admittance to Chirrup was n't equally utile, but certainly was playfulness. I too saw some comical conduct shapes - like people watching unrecorded sports on the laptops while their seat-back telecasting get on CNN or CNBC. Anyways, I stray... )

For $12.99 you got WLAN... for about 5 hrs. Worth the cost most likely to do the flight productive for work, especially compared to an $ 8 collation multitude.

Following to me on the progrgram was a woman, likely 20-25 ages aged. Equally presently as we were letted to employ our laptops, she tossed hers unfastened, paid the $12.99... and attended Facebook.

I was sitting one place offly from her, so I could see what she was making. She passed roughly 3 hrs on Facebook, with a little sum of assorted web surfing motley in. But it was nearly all Facebook.

It was interesting to me, because the economics of Facebook hold been fodder for treatment in the Vale for a few eld now. And here I was, watching somebody remuneration $12.99 for Facebook.

It so occurred to me how much money the `` dim pipes '' of the cyberspace are rattlingly doing. How many people upgrade their net service to broadband because they desire to do YouTube quicker? How many people are efficaciously paying the service suppliers to admission content maked by others? How many people pay charges for net service at hotels, drome, coffee bar? To wireless suppliers, cablegram suppliers, orbiter suppliers, telephone suppliers?

It Holds an interesting counterweight to the statement that the service suppliers give for bandwidth strangulation and other pricing powerfulness maneuvers. They would still reason they are n't getting plenty of the pie.

Still, I 'm moderately sure that Facebook got 0 % of that $12.99.

Brands you recognize why AOL really worked back in the day. You cognise, in simpler times.