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Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook by istjohn on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:20AM (#19867559)
I disagree. Many people have moved away from FB to IG after all the bad publicity FB has had. If IG was an independent company that consumer choice would mean something. As it is, any privacy conscious social network that mounts any threat to FB will simply be bought as happened with WhatsApp.
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Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook by rock_hard on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:13AM (#19868445)
Can you cite source for the claim that people have switched?

Cause all I see is people using both...and the publicly available data supports that

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Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook by basch on Thursday May 09, 2019 @11:18AM (#19869044)
IG was like a 13 person company, do you think they would have successfully scaled without FB? Thats a pretty pretty big if. Had they not sold, its possible FB would have just murdered them.
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Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook by reanimated on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:09PM (#19903985)
Before being acquired by Facebook they already had over 30 million users
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