Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar...
by soziawa on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:08AM
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> Facebook's network effect is extremely strong
But it has to stay stronger than it's bad reputation. If the only thing you have is a network effect you are in a very bad place. Everyone I know used to be on MSN and then within a week everyone had WhatsApp and MSN was practically dead.
> this is also not even including their other assets (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus)
True Instagram is strong especially since they can show a shitton of ads there.
But Instagram isn't Facebooks vision of what the world should be.
But it has to stay stronger than it's bad reputation. If the only thing you have is a network effect you are in a very bad place. Everyone I know used to be on MSN and then within a week everyone had WhatsApp and MSN was practically dead.
> this is also not even including their other assets (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus)
True Instagram is strong especially since they can show a shitton of ads there. But Instagram isn't Facebooks vision of what the world should be.