Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by ethbr0 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:17PM
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Growth, and especially growth in younger demographics, is probably the metric Facebook was looking at.
Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by oarabbus_ on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:13PM
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Right, that's why they bought instagram. But that's a far cry from the claim OP made their "network effect was overwhelmed"
Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by ignoramous on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:21AM
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I don't think one can break a scale-free network like that of Facebook by playing the same game as Facebook.
One way to counter a scale-free network is to create adjacent scale-free networks that replaces its competition one part at a time. This is what, I believe, WhatsApp (with messaging) and Instagram (with images) were on the verge of doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network#Immunizatio...
Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by worthless-trash on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:09PM
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I believe this is based on the writers perception, not reality.
I can argue that my friends now use all use email, eclipsing facebook, whatsapp and instagram, better buy those stocks in SMTP. ;)
Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by ignoramous on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:48AM
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Perception, yes: https://stratechery.com/2020/social-networking-2-0/
This doesn't seem accurate, do you have evidence to back up this claim? Instagram had 30 million users and no revenue upon acquisition. Facebook had over a billion, and billions in revenues.