I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg

Re:I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg by timeisapear on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:14AM (#19086641)

People != the market. Anecdotally Facebook usage among my circles has dropped. Most of that activity has shifted to Instagram which Facebook, Inc. owns but the general stigma attached to it is less.

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Re:I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg by intopieces on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:04PM (#19089214)

Sure. But the market is a good proxy. Investors are betting billions that people don’t care about privacy and so far that bet has been good

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Re:I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg by anoncake on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:30PM (#19089463)

Facebook is a natural monopoly. People have to use it, whether they like it or not, whether they care about privacy or not.

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Re:I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg by intopieces on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:46PM (#19091284)

Facebook's usefulness outweighs users' concerns about privacy, which leads me to conclude that users don't "actually" care about privacy. They might wish that Facebook were different, but that wish hasn't translated into loss of market share for Facebook.

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Re:I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg by c1sc0 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:50PM (#19089710)

No one has to use Facebook.

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Re:I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg by anoncake on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:34PM (#19090057)

No one has to use electricity, for a uselessly narrow definition of "have to".

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