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By way of comparison:

About 60 000 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War, out of a total population of roughly 200 million Americans.

That works out to one American life lost for every 3333 (ish) Americans.

Even if we ignore the fact that Americans are almost certainly wildly overrepresented on Facebook relative to the rest of the world, the website is six times as destructive to the U.S.

Tongue firmly in cheek, incidentally.




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