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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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