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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by fragmede on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:21PM (#17202120)
It's a fair question, but mostly irrelevant in this context. As long as users feel engaged with the site and are using it (and thus watching ads), it doesn't matter how long a users's 'watch later' list grows.

I say "mostly" because there's likely some small effect from users who get overwhelmed by the length of their watch list and bounce from the site, but it's hard to avoid links to YouTube if you spend any time on the Internet.

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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by erikpukinskis on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:47PM (#17207228)
The YouTube links thing is an interesting point. I wonder if that’s how Facebook’s decision to be a walled garden will come back to them. They prevented other sites from indexing and linking to content, but as a result there’s not as much organic traffic into Facebook to reactivate lapsed users. They planned for growth which will hurt their decline.

The walled garden will continue being lucrative though. Especially if they win VR.

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