How much are your Facebook friends worth to you?
As little as 30 cents?
Obviously you can’t put a value on true friendships so the question is really how much are your Facebook connections worth?
One Facebook user, Theodore Karantsalis started legal action against Facebook after his account suffered a Facebook based virus losing him all his friend connections (CNet). How much was he suing Facebook for? US $70.50! I can’t quite understand how he arrived at 30 cents per friend but I guess we’re all different, I know I’d pay a lot more as I’d struggle to remember them all off my own back.
Burger King made over 20,000 people sacrifice 10 friends each in exchange for a burger. The burger costs around US $3.30 so those discarded friends were valued at just over 30 cents.
But enter the cut throat commercial world of Facebook Public Pages and we are worth a lot less. OraBrush recently purchased the public profile Kisses for an undisclosed figure, believed to be around $10,000, valuing its fans at less than 1 cent.
How much time would it take you to rebuild your Facebook account if it was disabled?
