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Re:The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of intern... by MagnaEterna on Friday November 23, 2018 @03:58AM (#18515256)
They are all old. Facebook will probably still be functioning for the next 40 years until it's users finally die and then it's over.
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Re:The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of intern... by bennyelv on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:18AM (#18515330)
But Instagram users aren't, and there's nothing stopping Facebook from buying whatever the next generation of youth start using to replace Instagram when its time comes.

The question is can they make enough cash to make the model perpetual.

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Re:The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of intern... by AlexandrB on Friday November 23, 2018 @06:23AM (#18515804)
> there's nothing stopping Facebook from buying whatever the next generation of youth start using to replace Instagram when its time comes.

Hopefully antitrust law will stop them, because with a behemoth like Facebook buying up every new, exciting social network real innovation, especially in monetization, will continue to be a myth.

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Re:The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of intern... by King-Aaron on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:23AM (#18515352)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-u...

> They are all old.

It doesn't appear to strictly be the case.

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Re:The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of intern... by MarkMc on Friday November 23, 2018 @09:42AM (#18516650)
They might be all old in US and Europe. But in India and other third world countries Facebook seems to be doing OK with young people.
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Re:The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of intern... by tivert on Friday November 23, 2018 @06:25PM (#18519483)
Facebook makes far more money per user in the US or Europe. Third world activity won't be able to make up for the revenue drop if the bottom falls out of Facebook's first world properties.
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Re:The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of intern... by danso on Friday November 23, 2018 @09:36AM (#18516621)
So, basically Facebook still has a lifetime at least an eon long in tech years? The World Wide Web is not even 40 years old yet.
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