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>"I'm buying FB call options." In other words you're anticipating the share price to decline further. This sort of supports the OPs first assertion.
You may be thinking of put options. Buying calls is a bullish position.
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Good luck. Telegram is owned by Russians.
The founder (Durov) is a Russian in exile, fighting Putin's attempts to control the encryption keys. Secret chats are not affected, but cloud chats would be. Durov has stated he would rather see Telegram banned in Russia than give in, but the world will know in 2 weeks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/telegram-...
Durov is a very shady person, I wouldn't trust him with anything that you may want to keep private. Check out how a story by ex-employee of his [1], it gives a lot of backstage info.
[1] https://medium.com/@anton.rozenberg/pavel-durov-sued-senior-...
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Yes, Facebook's current network is fairly strong, but you shouldn't look to where the masses currently are, you should look to where the trendsetters, the young, and the people in the know—where they are. These people are ahead of the curve, and the signs they are emitting is that Facebook is not serving their interests and needs. Young people don't want to use facebook because it forces you to interact with everyone…
Facebook has no serious competition at the moment other than Snapchat. Young people are still using Instagram and Messenger. Ironically, the calls for regulation might actually end up helping Facebook in the end as they will make the barriers to entry higher.
The barrier will only be higher for potential services that want to avoid those regulations. If the market moves in a 'wants more privacy' direction, barrier to entry shouldn't be a problem.
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Facebook has no serious competition at the moment The competition is “socialising the pre-Facebook way”
To me what changed with Facebook was that the local address book that I had on my phone became a tree in a central graph owned by a company and I was fine giving out that information. Today who could muster up the trust needed for me to let them know about everyone I know? I think no such company exists or ever will. I have no social internet accounts left except for this one. I even recently deleted my Linkedin acco…
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I'm replying to the dead comment. The Facebook site is evil and should be destroyed because of 2 reasons, in my opinion. Firstly, the news feed is solely designed to get you to stay on the site for longer. And what that means is you get an echo chamber. So, idiot people get idiot posts that agree with them. It's not just a problem on one side of the political spectrum, it's a problem for any extreme view. Anti-vaxxer…
Do we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater? We can have regulation that bans the use personal information for political ads but allows it for toothpaste ads
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They have over two billion monthly active users - not sure the DAU stat, but hundreds of millions would not surprise me.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Their daily user count is 1.4 billion: https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...