Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]

Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf] by ethbr0 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:52PM (#31186263)

They can, but I'd argue that none of those had the pervasiveness of Facebook. Moreso due to timing & mobile adoption, than any actual failing.

Facebook's moat is that it's the Yellow Pages of social.

It took the web to kill Yellow Pages, not a better phone book. Which is probably why you see FB investing in acquiring social-but-different competitors and researching paradigm shifts.

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Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf] by pkdpic on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:10PM (#31186459)

I like that analogy but I'm realizing I have no real understanding of if people saw the yellow pages as a problematic monopoly in any way.

I'm sure no where near where facebook is with negative perception but it seems like small businesses at least could have viewed the yellow pages as problematic.

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Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf] by gnatman on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:18PM (#31186533)

They saw it as problematic enough that AT&T was broken up in the 80s.

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Re:Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf] by jdrc on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:37AM (#31190483)

yellow pages did not have network effect.

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