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Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf]

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Post by RandomBK »

askl56 wrote: post #143
aylmao wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, care to elaborate? I'd assume it's the other way around; people who don't want to see ads are probably less likely to click on them and drive revenue, no?

He's in a financial position to afford $10 a month for the relative luxury of not being served ads, meaning he has a relatively large disposable income, meaning he's the kind of person I would want to advertise to.

In addition, his disposition for avoiding ads likely means he is running ad blocking, and thus already minimizing his ad exposure. This presents a less crowded field where any ads he does see may have a larger impact on his buying behavior.

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Post by qedqfqef »

lokopodium wrote: post #190
adventured wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't lower crime in the EU. The EU has between a higher rate or a similar rate of violent crime and crime in general vs the US (varying depending on which country you're talking about). The US rate of crime compares well to most developed nations. [1] The US has a far higher murder rate thanks to its policies on gun regulation. There is not less absurd politics in the EU. It's every bit as crazy over there rig…

>thanks to its policies on gun regulation Citation needed.

This isn't wikipedia :)

Re: Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf]

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Post by profalseidol »

Reedx wrote: post #204
quotemstr wrote: post #122

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Internet outrage is _never_ as widespread or important as it looks. The best way to predict the effect of any social media campaign against a person or organization is to evaluate the steadfastness of the campaign's target. If you are the target of an internet mob and you blink, you're not only going to enact mob-demanded changes that are detrimental to your interests, but also broadcast weakness and attract further…

Aye, this sort of thing is a running joke in the gaming community. The classic example is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which had calls for boycotts prior to its release. Guess what those same people bought and played when the game released? http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/973/082/6e0...

It did work with EA's Battlefront 2 right? EA's stock value went down. Then sales of Battlefront2 wasn't as good as expected. Then there's now the hot topic of lootboxes being illegal.

We'll need to exactly define and agree what it is to be achieve tho. In my view, I think the point has been made and have been heard successfully and have caused the desired punch in the face.

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Post by candiodari »

mehrdadn wrote: post #183
shantanubala wrote: post #166

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Kalanick is still a very successful founder - not that I necessarily think he should be emulated. Regardless of what you think of Uber, Travis Kalanick started a very large company, and Uber is as entrenched as ever. So perhaps this actually is evidence in favor of the parent comment. Did Uber really suffer much at all? Or did they just reshuffle management, pay Kalanick billions to (kind of) leave, and continued bus…

> continued business as usual? Citations? I haven't really heard about them pulling any shenanigans under the new CEO's watch.

Didn't the traffic accident with the obviously not-watching safety driver happen under the new CEO's watch ?

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Post by mehrdadn »

candiodari wrote: post #224
mehrdadn wrote: post #183

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> continued business as usual? Citations? I haven't really heard about them pulling any shenanigans under the new CEO's watch.

Didn't the traffic accident with the obviously not-watching safety driver happen under the new CEO's watch ?

Not every tragedy is a shenanigan? I seem to recall reading that the self-driving program started before his time, and that that the poor implementation was a result of the folks in that division hastily trying to impress the higher-ups -- not a result of something the CEO condoned. IIRC they stopped their testing after the incident. Not sure how you can claim he was having Uber pull shenanigans here.

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

dboreham wrote: post #114
matte_black wrote: post #86

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#DeleteFacebook is not a thing. Anyone who thinks it was going to affect Facebook doesn’t understand the fundamentals behind Facebook. It’s just some meaningless outrage porn for people to hang a hashtag off of and maybe increase their social currency. This stock is going to be back to its 190 price levels soon enough and anyone who isn’t on board is going to be left with the FOMO.

Perhaps, but I have certainly noticed a significant downturn in the level of end user engagement on Facebook in recent weeks. Almost nobody is posting these days. Plenty of ads and commercial organizations in my feed but very little organic content.

I've noticed this too. Thing is, the expectation seems to be users deleting their accounts en masse, while the reality is that people are just slowly drifting away from it (without going through the hassle of actually deleting their account).

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Post by older »

lokopodium wrote: post #190
adventured wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't lower crime in the EU. The EU has between a higher rate or a similar rate of violent crime and crime in general vs the US (varying depending on which country you're talking about). The US rate of crime compares well to most developed nations. [1] The US has a far higher murder rate thanks to its policies on gun regulation. There is not less absurd politics in the EU. It's every bit as crazy over there rig…

>thanks to its policies on gun regulation Citation needed.

Read that vox article he linked.

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Post by anameaname »

snaveed wrote: post #130
spiderPig wrote: post #39

That's crazy. Their net income is almost the same as Google's with 1/3rd the number of employees. I am surprised that they have 25k employees now, wow!

Reported 2018 Q1 Net Income: Alphabet: $9.4 Billion [0] Facebook: $5.0 Billion [1] [0] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_releas... [1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q1...

Net income is not that useful of a metric since both companies are still growing.

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Post by avip »

throwaway13456 wrote: post #178
roddux wrote: post #14

My main takeaway from this is that #deleteFacebook has been a flash in the pan-- their active user count is still increasing across all regions. Also to note, FB only pay effectively 11% tax on some 12 billion dollars worth of revenue.

It doesn't work that way. I learned it the hard way. I run a successful s/w company that was recently under targeted attacks by one of these hashtag campaigns. The gist was we wrote something about why we refused to hire women simply to improve the % of females in tech and why we want to hire the best people for the job irrespective of their gender. The goal of the post was to help people correctly contribute to gend…

Why did you write that blog post to begin with? Sounds like a terrible issue to write about if your goal is positive PR.
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