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Re:Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:04AM (#17714809)
Yeah there's still billions of people that aren't online yet, and even without all of the optimization targets, people still use services like Facebook, Snapchat, Whatsapp, etc multiple times per day - all of these services will remain highly profitable even with declining usage figures.

It's just that their share prices will take a hit and shareholders will be disgruntled. Fuck those guys though.

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Re:Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak by majos on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @10:13AM (#17716118)
I'm not sure how close tech companies are to monetizing the kinds of users who aren't online yet. For example, I talked to somebody at Microsoft a while back who said that Bing doesn't even serve ads to many African users because there isn't a sufficient advertiser base trying to court those users. So the last few billion users may be we less profitable than the first few billion.
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