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Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by Barrin92 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:04PM (#16370234)
Myspace was pretty much dead the moment facebook arrived. It's true that companies like Facebook can be replaced, but they almost never coexist or directly compete. Chat services usually split geographically. Wechat in China, Whatsapp outside of the US, snapchat in the US.

Anecdotally I know very few people who simultaneously use multiple messenger apps or switch around a lot. (For the reason outlined in the post before, you lose your network).

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Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by rock_hard on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:30PM (#16378574)
Anecdotally I know a lot of people who use IG, FB, WhatsApp and Snapchat along side just fine though.

Lets use some math to answer this:

2 billion Smartphones users 2 billion Facebook users (Smartphone mostly) 1 billion Instagram users (Smartphone only) 1 billion WhatsApp users (Smartphone mostly)

So just looking at these numbers there must be a huge overlap in usage

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