Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by haterswillhate » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:07 PM UTC

Why to brag with account or users count, when users cannot even delete they accounts ? Many people have multiple accounts due forgetting credientials or simple facebook message "thank you for sending your paperwork.." when you just want to login ..

Hard to believe facebook, corporations lie so so much and twist word to fit marketing agenda.

Sorry fb, I have very hard to believe your agenda.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by robsun » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:08 PM UTC

Damn it, I have about 40 users playing my game and I'm supper happy.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by dirtyaura » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:08 PM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #30

manigandham wrote: post #12

Consensus is monthly active users: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/ Remains to be seen how many are real humans though.

It frustrates me to think I count in this number even though I only have a fake Facebook account under a fake name and with no friends, simply because my job requires that I log into their developer account occasionally.

You and other fake test accounts by developers are still a rounding error. More interesting statistics is how many fake accounts are created for influencing discussion. Twitter has a huge problem with this, Facebook seems to handle it better but even if it is a single digits (1-5%) it is still tens of millions of accounts

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:08 PM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #30

manigandham wrote: post #12

Consensus is monthly active users: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/ Remains to be seen how many are real humans though.

It frustrates me to think I count in this number even though I only have a fake Facebook account under a fake name and with no friends, simply because my job requires that I log into their developer account occasionally.

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Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by athesyn » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:08 PM UTC

mouldysammich wrote: post #59

athesyn wrote: post #39

Hows it being old? Nearly no one in my age range uses FB, just snapchat + ig.

does instagram not constitue facebook though?

no, you don't need an fb account to use ig.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by nblavoie » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:09 PM UTC

RRRA wrote: post #117

Most depressing news I've read today...

I tried to quit Facebook (for the 3rd time this year) the last week but it keeps remind me of the people that will miss me by email. I guess this is one of their mental tricks to make users feel that they did the wrong choice by leaving Facebook. Any ideas, tricks on how to solve this problem ?

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by booleandilemma » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:11 PM UTC

jondubois wrote: post #114

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #32

It is both amazing and deeply concerning that one corporation has influence over 1/4 of the world's population. It is even more concerning when you consider the outsized voting power of 1 person at that company.

When Microsoft was monopolizing the world, the government stepped in. Now the EU is going after Google. What is the government doing about Facebook? Imagine if the government hadn't stepped in to limit Microsoft's monopoly; today there would be no Facebook; everyone in the tech industry would be a Microsoft employee and everyone in the world would be using Microsoft's "Human Social Monitoring System"... and we would…

Maybe the government is comfortable with a company that benignly collects personal data on 1/4 of the population, just in case it ever wants to leverage that data.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by euyyn » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:12 PM UTC

jjeaff wrote: post #70

glhaynes wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if 10% of their users are pet snakes (a really generous estimate imo), they've got a mere 1.8 billion monthly active users.

More likely hundreds of millions are bots.

So a mere 1.5 billion then? :)

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by joeblau » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:13 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #80

joeblau wrote: post #49

I think Facebook counts you as active even if you're logged in, never go to the site, but see any site with a like button. I've blocked Facebook using both Safari Content blockers and my `/etc/hosts` file, but I wonder if they have other ways of attempting to count me in.

Please share all your FB entries to block

This is what I get when I `cat /etc/hosts | grep facebook`. Not all are Facebook

  0.0.0.0 facebook.com
  0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookinc.122.2o7.net
  0.0.0.0 ncaafacebook.com
  0.0.0.0 www.ncaafacebook.com
  0.0.0.0 wwwfacebook.com
  0.0.0.0 www.wwwfacebook.com
  0.0.0.0 facebook-proxy.hi5.com
  0.0.0.0 facebook-repto1040s2.ahlamountada.com
  0.0.0.0 facebook.cm
  0.0.0.0 www.facebook.cm
  0.0.0.0 www.facebook.realtorarcf.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookasciiart.com
  0.0.0.0 www.facebookasciiart.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookbox.com
  0.0.0.0 www.facebookbox.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookcrawl.co.cc
  0.0.0.0 www.facebookcrawl.co.cc
  0.0.0.0 facebookloginsignin.com
  0.0.0.0 www.facebookloginsignin.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookoxy.com
  0.0.0.0 www.facebookoxy.com
  0.0.0.0 facebooktbtoolbar.ourtoolbar.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookunblocking.com
  0.0.0.0 www.facebookunblocking.com
  0.0.0.0 hacking-facebook.com
  0.0.0.0 www.hacking-facebook.com
  0.0.0.0 needfacebook.com
  0.0.0.0 www.needfacebook.com
  0.0.0.0 unblockfacebook.co.uk
  0.0.0.0 www.unblockfacebook.co.uk
  0.0.0.0 facebook-zdjecia.bo.pl
  0.0.0.0 zdjecia-facebook.bo.pl
  0.0.0.0 facebook-color.5v.pl
  0.0.0.0 podgladfacebook.wirtualnie.pl
  0.0.0.0 facebook-uzaleznienie.wirtualnie.pl
  0.0.0.0 facebookpodglad.wirtualnie.pl
  0.0.0.0 facebookszpieg.glt.pl
  0.0.0.0 pl-facebook.com--contest.co
  0.0.0.0 facebookcolor.pl
  0.0.0.0 www.specials.facebook.netsa.pl
  0.0.0.0 ilenafacebooku.pl
  0.0.0.0 facebook-app.pl
  0.0.0.0 facebookred.pl
  0.0.0.0 facebookfriends.com.pl
  0.0.0.0 ktopodgladamnienafacebooku.wordpress.com
  0.0.0.0 5facebookfrienddel.blogspot.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookkoloruj.blogspot.com
  0.0.0.0 aktualizacjafacebooka.blogspot.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookaplikacje.blogspot.com
  0.0.0.0 facebook-kolor.blogspot.com
  0.0.0.0 facebookkviewer.blogspot.com
  0.0.0.0 creative.ak.facebook.com
  0.0.0.0 pixel.facebook.com
  0.0.0.0 ads.ak.facebook.com
  0.0.0.0 ads.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net

And my rule in 1Blocker is

  https?://([a-z\.]*)?facebook\.com.*

@netaddict list is better.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by jondubois » Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 8:16 PM UTC

imgabe wrote: post #119

jondubois wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When Microsoft was monopolizing the world, the government stepped in. Now the EU is going after Google. What is the government doing about Facebook? Imagine if the government hadn't stepped in to limit Microsoft's monopoly; today there would be no Facebook; everyone in the tech industry would be a Microsoft employee and everyone in the world would be using Microsoft's "Human Social Monitoring System"... and we would…

Microsoft abused its position as the dominant OS maker to shut competitors out of a different market (web browsers). I agree the pervasiveness of Facebook is a problem (one of many). But from a legal standpoint, what have they done that can bring a viable antitrust complaint?

Facebook monopolized social advertising. Facebook makes your friends want things that they don't need and in doing so is distorting society's values and encouraging mindless consumerism.