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For one thing, the survey and the earnings report are measuring different people. The survey measured Americans (who have mostly had the longest exposure to Fa

For one thing, the survey and the earnings report are measuring different people. The survey measured Americans (who have mostly had the longest exposure to Facebook from a global perspective), the reports (presumably) measure globally, including communities that haven't had Facebook as a pervasive part of their social discourse for the last decade+.

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That's true. But digging a bit deeper, you can find DAU in US/Canada as broken out by the most recent FB earnings report slides [1] The punchline for DAU/MAU seems to be that it has ~flatlined in US/Canada since 2019. But certainly not the drop that would be implied by commentary here and elsewhere in the tech echo chamber. My original reply was intended as a general warning about not assuming that your worldview is the same as everyone else's worldview. [1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q3/FB-Earnings-Presentation-Q3-2021.pdf https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q3...