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Re:Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers by jinushaun on Thursday December 26, 2013 @08:53AM (#6966238)
It was like this during the IPO too. The internet really just likes to hate on FB for whatever reason. You don't here the same about Twitter, whose stock is outperforming FB despite making less money.
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Re:Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers by robertjwebb on Thursday December 26, 2013 @08:58AM (#6966256)
Maybe people think that if everyone believes Facebook is dead then it will die. Facebook has information on everyone and it's really hard to leave because everyone else uses it. If it just fucking disappeared one day I would be so happy.
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Re:Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers by tanzam75 on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:01PM (#6966852)
> The internet really just likes to hate on FB for whatever reason. You don't here the same about Twitter, whose stock is outperforming FB despite making less money.

I don't know about "the internet," but most of Hackernews's top-rated comments for the Twitter IPO were skeptical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6689742

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Re:Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers by jkestner on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:24PM (#6966947)
Everyone likes an underdog, and the new thing. Facebook probably stopped being both by the time the movie came out, and the IPO cemented it. Pre-IPO Twitter, like your favorite team in the offseason, is still a blank canvas onto which we can paint an impossibly bright future.
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