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As an aside, FB's continued success, while having such a bad public image is astonishing. They obviously have a moat, a very literal network effect. But, FB al
by dalbasal 8y ago
As an aside, FB's continued success, while having such a bad public image is astonishing.
They obviously have a moat, a very literal network effect. But, FB also has lots of competition (more than google, amzn, & msft anyway) and the type of product that should be substitutable.. with some combination of twitter-wechat-HN-or-whatnot. Social network, seems, at least to me, like something that lends to rising and waning popularity. They're not embedded in businesses or hard to turn off in any way.
It just seems that negative user opinion of FB should be a bigger deal than it would be for amazon of msft.
I dunno how to square this circle.
- icelancer 8y ago> As an aside, FB's continued success, while having such a bad public image is astonishing. The public image is a bunch of people who want them to be bad, not actual consumers. The media has narratives it drives and a bunch of nerds here hate them for legitimate reasons. The average consumer does not care and never will.
- dalbasal 8y agoI disagree. The average FB user is opinionated about all sorts of things. I bet you if you polled random people on the street, they have an opinion on FB... and I bet it has gotten worse in the last few years.