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Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users
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#112I 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
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#113I need perspective At peak, how many landline phones (residential) were there? Peak: printed newspaper readership worldwide? Peak: tv viewership (like july 20, '69) How many people have electricity? Water? How many active smartphones in use today? How many machines run any MS OS? How many worldwide automobiles? At first it seems like Gomer "Gol-ly" but not really.
World Cup 2014 probably beats July 20, 1969 as far as pure viewership numbers go
Edit: 600 million watched the moon landing [1], 3.2 billion watched the World Cup [2]
[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5852237/Apollo... [2]: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2015/m=12/news=2014-fifa...
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#114It 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 chant praises to our dear leader Bill Gates.
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#115Monthly, active according to this source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15880494/facebook-2-billi... And if you look at these stats from March 2017: https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ It could be either one. Daily active were 1.28 B and monthly active were 1.9 B so either way it is likely they have both crossed, or are about to cross the 2B mark.
I'm so glad I'm still in the majority.
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#1162 billion daily, active users. Insane.
That's MAU not DAU
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#117Most depressing news I've read today...
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Facebook is a platform. They don't do a lot of attempting to influence, as far as I can tell. Ahem: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
What point are you trying to make? Can you elaborate? "Ahem" and a link don't do a good job of forming or supporting a specific point. Edit: Why do people think these are unreasonable questions? Does Google attempt to influence by ordering search results? How can any publisher avoid attempting to influence when any difference in content is potentially influential?
Adding to the reason above, Facebook has been creating filter bubbles for years now. As a feature! Leading to the influence of Fake News and people who believe it.
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#119It 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…
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?
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#120So, how would one grow a competitor at this point? Appeal to underserved users?
Facebook is too broad a platform to compete with generally. You can however compete and win against individual facebook products. I.E. Instagram for pictures, Whatsapp for messaging, etc.
Oh wait. Shit.