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Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Ads over time extract profit margins from all other industries. For example at least 50% of all profits from mobile games are spent on acquiring users from ads.

Do you have a source on that? I'm not challenging, I believe it, I just wanna see some proof

What's your standard of proof?

Do a thought experiment and you'll find a nugget of truth to the idea. Imagine two competitors who are otherwise identical. What would their AdWords buying strategy be?

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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post #5

What exactly is the end goal of these advertising platforms, exactly? Ads in my mind are zero sum, so I'm pretty clueless on this front. One thing I find interesting is the simultaneous popularity of these newfound distractions and task/project management software. Are we solving problems that were intentionally created and calling that progress?

The end goal is selling ads and eyeballs are king. The money has moved where the eyeballs are.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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I don't understand how google is so incompetent and just left facebook this field entirely to themselves. Why couldn't there be a Youtube Stills app for example?

"I don't understand how google is so incompetent and just left Facebook this field entirely to themselves."

@kaorduaoishiho, at it's core, google has never understood ^social^.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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post #15

It's disappointing that tech journalists don't go a bit harder at the founders when writing pieces like these. Sure, it's interesting to find out about Instagram's internal processes and their projections, but Facebook is becoming increasingly regarded as being the main contributor to a new kind of social malaise. Therefore, if Instagram is aspiring to that level of adoption, how can questions like this not be put to…

When you are interviewing the entity that can throttle visits to your articles, it's a bit more complicated than that. Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook.

> Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook.

Citation needed.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you are interviewing the entity that can throttle visits to your articles, it's a bit more complicated than that. Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook.

> Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook. Citation needed.

https://www.infowars.com/proof-facebook-is-blocking-links-to...

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

#36
I immediately thought of this Stratechery post when reading the NYT piece. https://stratechery.com/2017/facebook-and-the-cost-of-monopo... At least the NYT photo of Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger is hilarious, the rest of piece as others have noted the usual softballs to our technology overlords...

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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> Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook. Citation needed.

https://www.infowars.com/proof-facebook-is-blocking-links-to...

The gold standard of fake news. As fake as it gets.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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> Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook. Citation needed.

https://www.infowars.com/proof-facebook-is-blocking-links-to...

That articles doesn't even make the claim you're making (that Facebook is blocking articles that criticize them), let alone provide evidence of that.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.infowars.com/proof-facebook-is-blocking-links-to...

The gold standard of fake news. As fake as it gets.

They are also one of the only big news organizations that regularly criticizes Facebook, so I guess the answer to the original question of why more people don't criticize Facebook is that the only demographic that are interested in that kind of thing are conspiracy theorists.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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https://www.infowars.com/proof-facebook-is-blocking-links-to...

That articles doesn't even make the claim you're making (that Facebook is blocking articles that criticize them), let alone provide evidence of that.

I didn't claim that, what I claimed was that coincidentally, the same sites that criticize Facebook were also being labeled as fake news.
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