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Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by shams93 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:13PM (#11678842)
Yeah Facebook is able to leverage peer pressure in a big way, yahoo had email but with facebook messenger if you cancel out you lose access to communication with a lot of people. Not even google was able to make a dent in facebook, google plus turned into a broken joke.
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Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by samfisher83 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:54PM (#11679656)
AOL/AIM used to be Huge. Now not so much.
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Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by deciplex on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @09:28PM (#11680728)
It didn't help that when the buzz and hype was greatest for Google Plus they... didn't let people join Google Plus without a difficult-to-obtain invite. By the time they cut that out nobody gave a shit anymore.

Turns out Cartman's "you can't come" technique doesn't work so well IRL.

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Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by randomThoughts9 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:21PM (#11685145)
It worked for GMail though.
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Re:When Yahoo Reigned Supreme by deciplex on Sunday May 15, 2016 @12:54AM (#11699498)
Yeah, it did get some buzz going iirc. Gmail doesn't rely on network effects tho.
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