Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by adpirz on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:23PM (#22187144)

30% of the world is using a Facebook product nearly everyday. What other things do that many people share in their daily routines outside of life's necessities?

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by marticode on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:31PM (#22187697)

Google. Chrome is the most popular browser, Gmail the most popular email, Android the most popular mobile OS and Google the most popular search portal. If you go online you are highly likely to use Google, even if you don't want to as AdSense or Analytics are used on many web sites too. I can't think of a more ubiquitous brand.

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by edgyquant on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:06PM (#22188520)

Android is the most popular consumer OS, not just the most popular mobile OS. Few, if any, surpass it.

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by killjoywashere on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:54PM (#22188220)

Pax Americana

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by manigandham on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:37PM (#22188871)

Very interesting answer, never seen it offered in that perspective but true nonetheless.

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by oarabbus_ on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:21PM (#22187629)

That's a good question and really puts it into perspective. From a company-centric focus, and excluding things like "eat food", I thought of:

Google Search/Gmail/Android

iPhone

That was it.

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by alasdair_ on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:24PM (#22187646)

And even iPhones are only about 10% of the world (728 million versus 7.7 people on the planet).

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by hyperdimension on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:50PM (#22187855)

Only 7.7 people on the planet?

What even is seven-tenths of a person?! ;)

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by tonymontainya on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:45PM (#22188180)

Outside of operating systems (Windows, Android, etc.) the only thing I can think of is Google (Chrome, Gmail, Search)

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by onion2k on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:37AM (#22189369)

ARM

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by nomel on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:20PM (#22187624)

Most of that is being consumed on smartphones, I would assume.

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by new2628 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:28PM (#22187672)

An occasional diarrhea.

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by dang on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:33PM (#22188116)

Please don't do this here.

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by new2628 on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:56AM (#22200673)

Sorry, it was too much, I agree.

To be fair, the anger came from my dislike of Facebook and similar services. Isn't strong language warranted if you talked about something you see as destroying the fabric of society? I thought that talking politely about them is already "normalizing" something that is harmful. What if the discussion was about drug dealers, the mafia, or such?

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Re:Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4 by dang on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:34AM (#22209253)

Even then it's necessary to remain thoughtful and substantive, because that's the only way to preserve the container for intellectual curiosity. Our duty to preserve the commons here is a higher priority than lashing out at ill-doers who are further away.

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