Facebook Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Economy === Economists have noted that Facebook offers many non-rivalrous services that benefit as many users as are interested without forcing users to compete with each other. By contrast, most goods are available to a limited number of users. E.g., if one user buys a phone, no other user can buy that phone. Three areas add the most economic impact: platform competition, the market place and user behavior data.<ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139060011.003|chapter=The Economics of Internet Markets|title=Advances in Economics and Econometrics|pages=48β75|year=2013|last=Levin|first=Jonathan|s2cid=37187854|isbn=978-1-139-06001-1|url=http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/repec/sip/10-018.pdf|editor1-last=Acemoglu|editor1-first=Daron|editor2-last=Arellano|editor2-first=Manuel|editor3-last=Dekel|editor3-first=Eddie|access-date=September 2, 2020|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808002527/http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/repec/sip/10-018.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Facebook began to reduce its carbon impact after Greenpeace attacked it for its long-term reliance on coal and resulting carbon footprint.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/12/greenpeace-declares-victory-over-facebook-data-centers/|title=Greenpeace Declares Victory Over Facebook Data Centers|magazine=Wired|date= December 15, 2011|access-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref> In 2021 Facebook announced that their global operations are supported by 100 percent renewable energy and they have reached net zero emissions, a goal set in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://tech.fb.com/renewable-energy/|title=Achieving our goal: 100% renewable energy for our global operations|date=April 15, 2021|newspaper=Tech at Meta}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/facebook-reaches-renewable-energy-target-094057219.html|title=Facebook reaches its target of using 100 percent renewable energy|website=Engadget|date=April 15, 2021 }}</ref> Facebook provides a development platform for many [[social-network game|social gaming]], communication, feedback, review, and other applications related to online activities. This platform spawned many businesses and added thousands of jobs to the global economy. [[Zynga Inc.]], a leader in social gaming, is an example of such a business. An [[Econometrics|econometric]] analysis found that Facebook's app development platform added more than 182,000 jobs in the U.S. economy in 2011. The total economic value of the added employment was about $12 billion (${{formatprice|{{Inflation|US|12000000000|2011}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars{{inflation-fn|US}}).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Facebook App Economy|date=September 19, 2011|publisher=University of Maryland|url=https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/files/Documents/Centers/DIGITS/AppEconomyImpact091911.pdf|access-date=June 25, 2017|archive-date=March 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301183356/https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/files/Documents/Centers/DIGITS/AppEconomyImpact091911.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page