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Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by fdsfsafasfdas on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:36PM (#14159485)
I'd argue Facebook's purchase and integration of other products is what made them inferior.... How exactly does facebook owning instagram and facebook help the consumer? They didn't need to buy it to integrate it into feeds, and that's not how most people consumed instagram anyway.

Hell, the main benefit I see to instagram is that their geotagging improved immensely.

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Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by ruleabidinguser on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:57PM (#14159701)
How is it worse for the consumer, though? I don't see how, under capitalism, its even possible for an abusive company to maintain a strong position.
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Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by fdsfsafasfdas on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:49PM (#14169699)
> I don't see how, under capitalism, its even possible for an abusive company to maintain a strong position.

Network effects. Together everyone hates it; individually, there is nowhere else for people to go without losing the majority of your social network. Facebook has people; its software is utterly irrelevant to why people use it.

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