Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
by robocat on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:02AM
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> The rest of the world [snip] never had an AOL/ProdigyCompuServe phase
In the Phillipines, Facebook is tied in with your mobile provider so most people only got Facebook (when I was there some years ago). Facebook is what some people there called the internet. Definitely a walled in garden, and definitely a strategy by Facebook to create a moat in some countries.
Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
by oska on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:40AM
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I'm aware of this 'colonising strategy' of FB in developing markets and I find it really sad that many people's first experience of the net and the web will have been FB.
In the Phillipines, Facebook is tied in with your mobile provider so most people only got Facebook (when I was there some years ago). Facebook is what some people there called the internet. Definitely a walled in garden, and definitely a strategy by Facebook to create a moat in some countries.