I'm okay with that. Get them off of the Web! If the money-grabbers leave, the Internet might revert to its natural, free, anything goes state it enjoyed in the nineties.

They do. I believe it's a 15-second mandatory; any longer and it's "skip after five seconds."

All of the named parties are stakeholders to the software. They all should have input, and no input should be taken more or less seriously. If you ignore the users, they won't buy it. If you ignore the engineers, they won't put any more than the barest effort into it. Same for the UI/UX designers. If you ignore the managers, they won't care about it much. If you ignore the marketers, they won't market as effectively as they should. If you ignore inspectors (a consortium or government body that controls some aspect of it), you won't have a product in the first place.

None of the answers satisfy the question.

"Tens of millions more are playing and loving those games."

[citation needed]

I'm sure someone's already mentioned it, but this will never be a win for the challenger: religion is not a science. Why? Because it cannot be disproven. One cannot ask for scientific evidence because there is none: therefore, religion cannot be measured in terms of science.

For example, it is common knowledge that stars are made mostly of hydrogen and helium, which they then fuse to make heavier elements. We can disprove that. If we suddenly find a star that is made mostly of, say, neon, then we rewrite the science books and say that stars are now made of either H and He or just a bunch of Ne. We can't do that about a religion. We can't test it. Therefore, there will never be a scientific answer. It is scientifically null.

Never mind...someone posted first before I refreshed the screen.

Upgrade from 500 GB to 2.5 GB? Is that supposed to be "by 2.5 GB?"

I've never heard of any successful political system requiring more than 10-15% of its membership for quorum. (Even then, most of them are even less than that.) How do they justify 300,000,000+ accounts being the bare minimum response?

Then I posit this:

Facebook has a sort of "social monopoly." (I'm not talking about money.) Many people use it, and for them, it's the only way to stay in touch with certain people. There is just no other place to go that is so widely used and so accessible. So I ask you:

Where do you send the people who are tired of Facebook? Google+? It's not used enough. Only 10 of my acquaintances use Google+ while all of my acquaintances, friends, best friends, family, and love interests are on Facebook.

We're in an era where sending letters, paper or electronic, just isn't as efficient as social media. We're in an era where phone conversations require a purpose to be socially acceptable. People choose giving others read permission to their facebook timelines over more sensitive data like a phone number or house address for a variety of reasons. (Also why the debit card is making checks obsolete: cards don't carry your house address or account number like checks do. Which would you rather give someone?)

So tell me, what would you have them do? Demand real customer service or be cut off from their social life? Do you have a solution to the social media monopoly or are you just going to sit here and insult those who complain that companies don't do what they say they will? ("Stop bitching about Facebook, and get a life." ~OP)

Then I refuse to patronize them.

Do you realize how difficult that might be? Jobs can be scarce nowadays, and not everyone can just "get a new job," especially if they've been around for awhile and have a family to feed and can't just switch to a lower-paying job. It could be an easier solution to convince the employer to change something.

You know, this reminds me of this quote: "You know how to cure AIDS? Kill everyone who has AIDS." It's not right.

To be fair, the way you worded it disinclines me to agree with you. Perhaps "they could use a different language so as to teach those skills" would enable people to "comprehend" your post better.

Respectfully, it is the men who own the companies and run the city that push those messages, not the vague concept of "Vegas."