We pay for Facebook with our data and our attention, and by either measure it doesn’t come cheap. We pay for Facebook with our data and our attention, and by either measure it doesn’t come cheap. The average Facebook user spends an hour a day on the platform; Instagram users spend 53 minutes a day scrolling through pictures and videos. Facebook also collects data from partner companies and apps, without most users knowing about it, according to testing by The Wall Street Journal. Facebook seeps into every corner of our lives to capture as much of our attention and data as possible and, without any alternative, we make the trade.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2019 09:04 UTC