Okay, let’s give the users of Facebook predecessors of Free Basic a voice.<p>Here am I, a German who used to use Facebook Zero (free access to Facebook via 3G) while I was in middle (and later high) school.<p>As soon as it became available, I – and some of my friends – stopped using SchuelerVZ, the social network most people used to use at the time – and instead actually tried to convince others to switch to Facebook, too.<p>&quot;It’s free! You don’t need to pay anything!&quot;<p>We tried to get as much content as possible inside the network, and never actually left it – because we had literally no money on our prepaid SIMs, and therefore couldn’t access other pages. Everything that wasn’t on Facebook didn’t exist for us.<p>In only a few months after Facebook Zero launched, the user numbers of SchuelerVZ and StudiVZ rapidly declined.<p>Today, we don’t have a choice for social networks anymore, Facebook has a monopoly.<p><pre><code>    ----------------
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