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the social graph isn't all that valuable to outsiders. anyone determined enough can scrape it without permission anyway. no one else can do much with it except maybe intelligence agencies which were already voluntarily given root access a long time ago.

the main economic value of it is to serve ads on Facebook dot com. that's it. that's how they make 100% of their earnings.




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