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The Last Goodbye

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Re: The Last Goodbye

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I heavily believe social networks will always be cyclical, as people always want excitement. A new social network launches, everyone gets excited for something new and different, it grows to the point where your grandma and your teachers or kids are on it too, you lose the excitement and start looking for the next "entertainment". The world is moving faster than ever with entertainment and attention spans. Facebook i…

You make it sound as if instagram is unrelated to facebook. Facebook owns them and they have so much money that they will buy the next thing and the one after that as well. Facebook, the company, will do just fine.

Yes, that's my point. Facebook (the company) knows that Facebook (the social network) won't be the king forever, so buys up the competition like Instagram to make sure they (the company) are still around.

I was purely referring to the social networks. Who owns them is irrelevant for this point.

Re: The Last Goodbye

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post #28

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Especially when you take a bunch of venture capital: https://ar.al/notes/ello-goodbye/ Note that that was written when they had taken $435,000 in VC, and now they're up to $11M: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ello-inc

I’m genuinely surprised they’ve lasted this long.

And ... it turns out there's just been a management coup.
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