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Re: Is Facebook dying?

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Post by popee »

unreal37 wrote: post #18
tatsuke95 wrote: post #6

> "She has at last count at least three accounts, possibly more, which she uses for different purposes – some of them just to play those stupid spammy Facebook games and quizzes." Impossible! According to Facebook, multiple accounts are not an issue, and people like this are outliers! And yet, almost everyone I know has more than one account. That 900MM user number is phonier than a three-dollar-bill. I wonder what t…

Facebook has 955MM "monthly active uniques". That's not number of accounts (which is surely over 1B), that is number of active users over a 30 day period. So all these fake accounts - people are using them (active). Ads are being displayed, activity is happening, Facebook is making money on every single one of 955MM accounts. So what makes them phony?

Yeah, unique as primary key in relation database :-)

Re: Is Facebook dying?

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Post by smashing »

I get that the overwhelming majority of Hacker News supports Barack Obama and feels the need to be very vocal in their support of him online. I understand that every two to four years their is a lot of online discussion about how evil Republicans are and how they hold us back in every way. I understand that acknowledging this as politics and not as the absolute truth to the way things have to be is very unpopular online, even on this site which is supposed to be relatively free of politics. But why do I always feel left out? I don't want to participate in the months of hate-Hate-HATE to whatever Republican candidate happens to be in the running for office. I personally don't think Romney is all that bad, and I don't think that Obama is all that good. I like technical things, not political things.

Re: Is Facebook dying?

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Post by vintagius »

unreal37 wrote: post #18
tatsuke95 wrote: post #6

> "She has at last count at least three accounts, possibly more, which she uses for different purposes – some of them just to play those stupid spammy Facebook games and quizzes." Impossible! According to Facebook, multiple accounts are not an issue, and people like this are outliers! And yet, almost everyone I know has more than one account. That 900MM user number is phonier than a three-dollar-bill. I wonder what t…

Facebook has 955MM "monthly active uniques". That's not number of accounts (which is surely over 1B), that is number of active users over a 30 day period. So all these fake accounts - people are using them (active). Ads are being displayed, activity is happening, Facebook is making money on every single one of 955MM accounts. So what makes them phony?

Facebook said it has 955MM actives, but there is no way we can prove this. Since they are a public company they could make up things just to look good you know.

Re: Is Facebook dying?

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Post by mykosmos »

The social approach is biased because one not necessarily likes what his friends like. People tend to be friend with people who have different hobbies/interests.

Re: Is Facebook dying?

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Post by GeneralMaximus »

Facebook is not dying. I feel it's going from being a fad to a utility. I've noticed that people I know are posting fewer status updates with every passing year, but they still heavily use Facebook for chat, event invitations, photos and groups. For a lot of people, Facebook seems to be becoming less of a pastime and more of a tool for communicating with friends and family.

I dislike Facebook as much as the next hacker, but I don't think Facebook is going anywhere anytime soon. It'll just become less interesting as a communication medium. After all, nobody is excited about the telephone any more.

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