Facebook has already signed up the most profitable two billion and the next billion are poorer, and the social challenges are much bigger. Facebook is a perfectly profitable company, and if no-growth is priced in maybe it can even focus—as it should—on stabilizing the problems.https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1022616921529667584 …
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Right. Their problem is increasing lack of interest in Facebook by teenagers, etc., so they've been trying to compensate by growing abroad. If that stalls, they're going to have a declining user base and less use by those who remain—and that's trouble.
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They sell ads on the basis of hours per eyeball not number of eyeballs. Presumably their user data are training the feed algorithm that inflammatory content generates more hpe. IOW, things won't get better.
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@aral talks in-depth about sustainable "stay-ups" over "start-ups."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Man, I hope so too. When it comes to anything social -- conversation, interaction, expression -- the pursuit of scale tends to *wreck* things.
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