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Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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30% of the world is using a Facebook product nearly everyday. What other things do that many people share in their daily routines outside of life's necessities?

Outside of operating systems (Windows, Android, etc.) the only thing I can think of is Google (Chrome, Gmail, Search)

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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User growth is up, even on Facebook alone. If what you say is true you might expect weekly users to be up-or-flat while daily is declining, as people are locked in to the platform but less engaged with it. But daily users are also up.

Are they your numbers, someone else’s or theirs ? Seems like they’d have a vested interest to claim anything as daily users. Bots, trolls, whatever.

True.

But there are plenty of proxy measures that show similar growth. For example the AppAnnie "active user" measure actually measures on device usage, and shows that 4 out of the top 5 most used apps world wide (or maybe ex-China? Unclear) are Facebook-owned (WhatsApp, Facebook, FB Messenger and Instagram. WeChat is number 4).

https://www.appannie.com/en/insights/market-data/state-of-mo...

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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30% of the world is using a Facebook product nearly everyday. What other things do that many people share in their daily routines outside of life's necessities?

Google. Chrome is the most popular browser, Gmail the most popular email, Android the most popular mobile OS and Google the most popular search portal. If you go online you are highly likely to use Google, even if you don't want to as AdSense or Analytics are used on many web sites too. I can't think of a more ubiquitous brand.

Android is the most popular consumer OS, not just the most popular mobile OS. Few, if any, surpass it.

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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Fb seems like a company that’s past it’s peak. Their brand and public image is garbage and they’re just going to extract as much profits from their dwindling user base as they can on the way down.

FB is not growing as before, but they're buying other social network companies to avoid that ultimate fate.

Who have they bought recently?

Re: Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

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30% of the world is using a Facebook product nearly everyday. What other things do that many people share in their daily routines outside of life's necessities?

Pax Americana

Very interesting answer, never seen it offered in that perspective but true nonetheless.
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