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We need to separate Facebook as a product from Facebook as a company. People are largely leaving Facebook as a product, because they simply don't find it as us
by krn 8y ago
We need to separate Facebook as a product from Facebook as a company.
People are largely leaving Facebook as a product, because they simply don't find it as useful or novel as it once was to them.
And in many ways Instagram is now a bit what Facebook used to be in its early days: personal and with very little noise.
Therefore, Facebook as a company isn't failing. Facebook as a product is.
- nkozyra 8y agoExcept you could argue what makes something personal and noiseless also makes it less profitable as an advertising platform.
- krn 8y agoThat's a good point, and it's probably the main reason why Facebook wants to integrate the infrastructure of all of its platforms, possibly sharing the users and ads between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp[1]. What else there is to do, when the most profitable product of the company has the slowest growth rate of all. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18997923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18997923