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They just posted their first net user loss - so maybe not "in droves" but their username is certainly declining and will continue to do so without drastic chang
by maxfurman 4y ago
They just posted their first net user loss - so maybe not "in droves" but their username is certainly declining and will continue to do so without drastic change
- next_xibalba 4y agoWhere are you getting this information? AFAIK, 2Q22 earnings (and metrics) are released tomorrow. The whispers I've heard are that any loss of M/DAU is contained to Europe and is caused by Russia going offline.
- jahewson 4y agoGiven that they lost users in the final quarter of 2021 that’s a remarkable time travel machine your whisperers seem to have invented.
- aahortwwy 4y ago> Social media giant Facebook has seen its daily active users (DAUs) drop for the first time in its 18-year history. > Facebook's owner Meta Platforms says DAUs fell to 1.929bn in the three months to the end of December [2021], compared to 1.930bn in the previous quarter. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60238565 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60238565
- ARandomerDude 4y agoAh yes, the familiar "everything is Putin's fault" refrain. He's a bad guy and invading Ukraine is horrible, all the usual caveats. But Putin under every rock and behind every bush being responsible for every toothache and hangnail is getting old.
- kazinator 4y agoEven if so, the point here needs more information: are they going to a different platform which respects them and cares about their needs? Or just some different-but-same thing?
- threeseed 4y ago> but their username is certainly declining You can't make any claims about Facebook's position based on a single quarter's result. Especially given we are in the most tumultuous period in the last few decades.
- Beldin 4y agoThe 80s covered the end of the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Iron curtain, so surely you're not including that decade. The 90s covered the fall and breakup of one of two world powers, and had a gulf war and the breakup/war in Yugoslavia, so that's similarly rules out. The 00s covered terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and London, changing air travel worldwide, starting wars and inspiring more terrorism (Madrid, Mumbay). Oh, and a financial meltdown compared to the Great Depression. So that's probably also not in your "last few decades". That leaves the 2010s, which cover (amongst others) the start of the corona pandemic. I guess you're including that event in your "recent decades". Plenty omitted from the above, such as famines and wars in Africa, news from Latin-America, "where's my vote" in Iran, the Arab Spring, Rohinga & Myanmar, ...; in short: we've been in a couple of tumultuous decades for a while now.