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Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’
- cyanydeez 5y agoread as, "we are afraid our demographics arnt valuable enought as crackpot boomers"
- op00to 5y agoServing young adults to who, exactly?
- kgin 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...
- deeblering4 5y agoSlow cooked with a little salt & pepper they are very tasty
- HenryKissinger 5y agoThe Zuck wants to understand the human experience. It has achieved sentience.
- klyrs 5y agoThe highest bidder, of course.
- Mikeb85 5y agoIt's an impossible problem. Either mom and dad are on Facebook or the kids are. That's why the kids always go to the newest thing: Snapchat and now Tictoc.
- secabeen 5y ago> That's why the kids always go to the newest thing: Snapchat and now Tictoc. Even Tiktok is getting long in the tooth, 4 years old in the International market. I would expect the next hot new thing will launch soon.
- B-Con 5y agoI'm wondering if Facebook will try to spin off another network, or maybe a different frontend on top of the Facebook/IG networks, to get rid of the Facebook branding problem altogether. My (outside) impression is this is what PayPal did with Venmo. Venmo wasn't functionally superior, just "not your parent's money app". We see the pattern in retail clothing. Parent companies recycle smaller brands through a multi-year trend cycle and raise up new brands when the last one gets too old.
- dan_hawkins 5y agoThey can always copy Circles functionality from Google+.
- B-Con 5y agoYoung users are we're the growth is, older users actually have money. Facebook is a top 5 market cap USA business. They have to think about boring things like, you know, revenue, not just user base growth. Considering that FB et al make their money from selling ads, I'm curious about the actual expected monetary value per customer in the younger vs older demographics. Is there any public research on this topic?
- coralreef 5y agoIf you don't have a young user base now, then in 10 years you might not have a user base at all. Young people will eventually grow old, have jobs, etc. The cycle continues.
- readonthegoapp 5y agoServing young adults -- oka "children" -- to corporations.
- juststeve 5y agofacebook's credibility is 0.
- kgin 5y agoReally surprised. For years, they talked about Facebook as a utility, the dialtone of the internet. “Cool” was entirely unnecessary and actually very limiting. So to come out now and say the new Facebook strategy is to be the cool app for the cool kids… it’s really surprising to me.
- bradknowles 5y agoServing them where? When? At what price? Can an individual buy one of these young adults, or is it only corporations?