Post 9gWWCyVB89WigclVOC by fitheach@mstdn.io
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 (DIR) Post #9gWVamFiE28BgvJiWO by zyx@divad.xyz
       2019-03-07T09:19:40Z
       
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       "I don't see how you couldn't say it's a meaningful drop. Fifteen million is a lot of people, no matter which way you cut it. It represents about 6 percent of the total U.S. population ages 12 and older. What makes it particularly important is if it is part of a trend. This is the second straight year we've seen this number go down."#Facebookhttps://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-numbers-showing-users-leaving-facebook-by-the-millions
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWVamTtNJTQOtx2ci by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2019-03-07T09:25:23Z
       
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       @zyx "All the bad press about Facebook..."What? Is there any other kind?
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWVkh3EQ0ZOSJCvx2 by zyx@divad.xyz
       2019-03-07T09:27:15Z
       
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       @fitheach Ha yeah I agree. Seems to be going from bad to worse for them. 😆 👏 FB lobbying against user data privacy was my favourite recent story.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWWCyVB89WigclVOC by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2019-03-07T09:32:23Z
       
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       @zyx Looking forward to the tipping point... any day now.#Facebook #DeleteFacebook
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWX0W6wxdTV753X7o by bob@soc.freedombone.net
       2019-03-07T09:34:24.030069Z
       
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       @fitheach @zyx If they try to move everything into a chat format and if that goes badly then perhaps that will be the final demise of Facebook.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWX0WNbxgnnwkqq5w by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2019-03-07T09:41:17Z
       
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       @bob Could well be. Sometimes it can be the most innocuous thing that brings down big corporations. Whatever the thing is it just needs to hit at the most opportune/inopportune moment and the whole edifice comes tumbling down. 🤞  @zyx
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWfD3AefdQ0kqHBiq by bob@soc.freedombone.net
       2019-03-07T10:42:25.290846Z
       
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       @fitheach @zyx Also the amount of profit that Facebook makes from each user per year is only a couple of dollars, so it might not take a very big change in attitudes or amount of "engagement" to significantly undermine the company.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWfD3S1d3JTciP3nU by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2019-03-07T11:13:13Z
       
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       @bob I am absolutely certain that FB management will be looking at the per user income. Continual userbase growth would never be possible and the signs are that it may be in decline. A focus on "privacy" might be an acknowledgement of this reality. Solidify the existing userbase and get them using FB more might be the strategy.@zyx
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWgLIESel7zjmYDmS by bob@soc.freedombone.net
       2019-03-07T11:21:20.395406Z
       
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       @fitheach @zyx Yes that could be what's happening. The big obsession was "the next billion", but when they look at the expected per user profits from the next billion (the people currently not connected or on expensive low bandwidth mobile connections where they pay per minute) I expect it's going to be very small compared to the amount of investment in satellite and other infrastructure required to deliver a non-trivial platform.So consolidating the existing users and trying to get more cash out of them by providing premium privacy-focused services might be Zuck's plan. Also if they're going to do anything with cryptocurrency (zuckbucks) then users having enough confidence in the platform to make financial transactions becomes a problem for them.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gWgLIZjNg8qnkVCvw by fitheach@mstdn.io
       2019-03-07T11:25:55Z
       
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       @bob Exactly."Zuckbucks" 😃 @zyx