Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
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Presentation · 16 pp
"We have definitively established tweens as the highest retention age group in the United States" "To give you a sense of scale, people who joined Facebook at 11 years old have almost 4X the LTR of those who joined as 20 year-olds" "If we want to win big wit…
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Research & report · 16 pp
"Long Term Retention: The Young Ones are the Best Ones and Other Learnings" "Our three major findings and associated implications are below." 1. "Tweens (approximate age 10-12) are special. People who join Facebook as tweens have the highest long term retenti…
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Messages & email
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Guy Rosen: "Should we consider limiting the CEI number we put in CSER to FB only, to avoid a step-change some time in the future when we lose access to private messaging? I know we've already released the top line number in the newsroom post -- so maybe it is …
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Messages & email · 13 pp
"We must onboard people into Facebook/Messenger as early as possible (tweens ideally) before they become attached to alternative social apps such as Snapchat, Instagram, and iMessage" "Why we know this: i. Teens who join Snapchat don't leave Snapchat after …
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Presentation · 2 pp
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Research & report · 10 pp
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Presentation · 49 pp
"Social comparison is common on IG. 51% of people experience social comparison on IG. They either compare their accomplishments to others or observe other people to decide how they should act 'sometimes' or more often." "Women and teens are more prone to soci…
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Research & report · 9 pp
"From 7/6/18 - 8/6/18: ~16K unique IG users admitted suicidal thoughts or intent and ~21K unique users admitted self-injury. Of these, between 45% and 60% are teens, even though only 18% of DAP are teens. On a daily basis, 5.1 million users, or 0.75% of DAP, a…
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Presentation · 3 pp
"3 KEY OBJECTIVES TO SUPPORT INSTAGRAM'S MISSION... Be teens' favorite place to share everyday moments and get closer to the people and things they love. $127.3M Total ($89.8M Opex, $37.5M HA, +89% y/y)" "Objective 1 Establish Instagram as the favorite place …
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Messages & email · 2 pp
"# INSTAGRAM CONFLICTS Greetings! Here are the results from our interview study (N=24) of the what, who, how, and impacts of conflicts on Instagram." "**TL;DR** * *Conflicts* are distressing interactions between users about their perceived differences. * Most…
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Research & report · 20 pp
"We hypothesize that unpredictable, low value rewards and cues that promote frequent, automatic, undesired behaviors are contributing to reward learning and habit formation in a way that is not aligned with users' intentions or preferences." "These may lead t…
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Messages & email · 8 pp
[Highlights]: 2. "Ecosystems - US User Lifetime Value (Phase 1): Based on a conservative set of assumptions, we find the lifetime value (LTV) of users in the United States to be between $200 and $350. People who join FB as 13 year-olds have an LTV of approxima…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
Jennifer Guadagno: "I wanted to follow up on the request we chatted about yesterday to understand more about possible effects of using 'body enhancing' filters on people from the well-being angle. I found an external researcher/clinical psychologist who specia…
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Messages & email · 1 pp
Guy Rosen: "btw I prewired Mark a little about encryption / scanning his initial reaction was 'in the end it'll all be encrypted' But I explained the net harm concept etc He needs to think about it - mostly he'll have context for when we eventually bring it to…
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Messages & email · 6 pp
"The biggest challenge here is that for the most part no one thinks FB makes people suicidal but people (especially policymakers and law enforcement) do think we create the opportunity for children to be groomed. Until we have really strong mechanisms for prev…
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Presentation · 16 pp
"All figures are presented as ballpark approximations since many simplifying assumptions were made." "The major takeaway from this work is that we are in the right range if we spend $100-$200 per teen." "The lifetime value of a 13 y/o teen is roughly $270 pe…
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Messages & email · 7 pp
Antigone Davis: "Was there a discussion on using 25 as the default? We get hammered on this issue quite a bit on the safety side. It is seen as a signal to age lie. Not a safety issue, but it also seems likely to create an even greater mismatch census data to …
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Messages & email · 6 pp
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Messages & email · 20 pp
"'The young ones are the best ones'" "The difference in long term retention can be dramatic, with the people who signed up for Facebook when they were young teens being 100% higher than those who joined FB as young adults" 2. "We care because it:" • "Makes t…
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Research & report · 22 pp
"In this study, we find that that 3.1% of Facebook users in the U.S. experience serious problems with sleep, work performance, or relationships that they attribute to Facebook and find difficult to change. We refer to this as 'problematic Facebook use,' in lin…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Adam Mosseri: "Kevin and Mikey are uncomfortable scanning Direct message data, which I didn't realize until last week, though they're supportive of using meta data. I'd like to make the value of scanning messages directly clear — do you guys have any idea how …
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Messages & email · 2 pp
"Lots of talk about the fact that we lost this teen generation but have a shot at getting kids, especially with Messenger kids, and should therefore 1) build more kid experiences and 2) find ways to transition from kid experiences to main FB. Video is obviousl…
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Research & report · 61 pp
"There is no evidence that Facebook use meets the clinical definition of 'addiction.' The way the media portrays Facebook 'addiction' can be exaggerated and inaccurate. However, Facebook may be rewarding and habit-forming. Therefore some people may experience…
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Sources: published internal records, unsealed discovery exhibits and court filings in MDL 3047 and related litigation. An allegation in a filing is not an independently verified fact.
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